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The web is subject to periodic attacks and fixes are freely available on the net.

All the major suppliers of anti-virus software let you download a fix. This enlightened view is based not only on commercial reality, but on the hope that you can be persuaded to buy a full copy. They also recognise the benefit of ‘herd immunity’.

The logic is simple: if no computer transmits the virus (or it could be immunised very quickly), it cannot spread. By making the fixes available they are protecting their wider community of customers.

http://us.mcafee.com/default.asp

http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/

http://www.sophos.com/

http://www.symantec.com/