Microsoft has disclosed a help-desk snapshot for February that reveals a large number of virus-related calls, most of them from Telkom and Absa Internet Access subscribers, followed by Tiscali and M-Web users.
"In the three weeks of February until Monday, 23 February, we received 600 virus-related calls," says Colin Erasmus, lead for security at Microsoft SA. "This amounts to 30% of the total call volume (about 4 000)."
Demonstrating customers' sloth in patching their systems to protect against increasing virus threats, Erasmus says most virus calls related to 2003's Blaster worm, which made use of a Microsoft vulnerability.
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Subscribers to Telkom's Internet service accounted for most of the calls, reveals Erasmus.
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