Microsoft 'Humbled' by security woes
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Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said Monday the company will make any necessary improvements in its software to try to thwart viruses and other attacks that have recently hobbled computers around the world.
"We are in many ways humbled by the developments of the last few weeks," said Ballmer, in a speech at the Churchill Club, a Silicon Valley business networking group. "Windows (operating system) is the most popular platform in the world, so every security incident with it is just magnified and magnified and magnified across so many more systems than with any other platform."
The Blaster, or LovSan, worm, exploited a flaw in nearly all versions of Microsoft's Windows operating system. The worm infected hundreds of thousands of computers around the world. Just last week, Microsoft disclosed new flaws, almost identical to that exploited by the Blaster worm, in Windows.