@John in Brisbane
I have to concur with Samic that the average WinXP Pirate is NOT going to allow their computer to "phone home" to Microsoft for security updates. Personally I consider software piracy to be a criminal activity and that criminals are by and large not highly intelligent.
http://smiley.pmaco.com/journal/201103/IIQindex_February_update_SJ110301_.html
Dancho, my answer to your question is "Yes", sort of. Piracy does lead to higher malware infection rates because it leaves more infectable systems for the script kiddies to access, but the pirates are a subset of the REAL culprits which are sloppy, inattentive computer users.
Smiley
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