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AzuMao 19th Jan 2010
There was no patch available for it (hence it
being a zero day attack), so hardly a matter of
running outdated software.

As for why they were using it at all.. probably
the same reason Symantec and all the others were;
some companies still trust Microsoft products.
ie8 fix

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