Debby Wilson Quotes (6 Quotes)

Now that we are aware that this attack vector is a possibility, customers can be certain that we will be scrubbing the code to look for any other points of vulnerability based on this kind of attack.

It really was an inadvertent thing that happened. We have the security update on a fast track... and somebody accidentally posted a pre-release version on a community site. It has been taken down, and we don't recommend customers use it it is not the version that we will be releasing on Tuesday.

Customers who have been impacted are feeling pain and we're working with them to make sure they get through the recovery process as soon as possible. But in terms of the numbers of customers impacted, it is relatively low.

Compared to earlier versions of Windows, there are a third less vulnerabilities because of the security development work we have done and half the number of critical vulnerabilities.

If you were an enterprise that was attacked by this worm, the pain was very real. There was disruption of the network and a big investment in terms of getting everything back to a recovery state.

There were some high-profile customers that were attacked by the worm. That made the situation somewhat of a news event, and that gave us an opportunity to help educate computer users about security measures.