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Microsoft to introduce Windows "kill switch"? (Download Squad)

Jun 28th 2006 10:30AM If this "feature" gets hijacked or exploited, this would be catastrophic. I'll start blocking traffic to their update and validation sites on the firewall if this actually gets implemented. I'd prefer to load up a decent network firewall and antivirus than risk updating into a dead machine. We're fully licensed here, but I'm not risking MY job over it. There is a small group of Mac people and I'm an oldtime linux user. Maybe I'll encourage people to consider moving now, so as to have the issue being solved before an exploit hits.