Will We Ever Learn?

Will We Ever Learn?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/17/vista_hit_by_stoned_angelina/
"A batch of laptops pre-installed with Windows Vista Home Premium was found to have been infected with a 13-year-old boot sector virus."
(Also in Russian ). Are we looped and doomed to discover "good old" vulnerabilities (remember beta versions of Vista ?) and viruses over and over again? I guess the number of signatures in modern antivirus software became so huge that antivirus vendors are getting rid of old viruses to decrease the size and improve speed.
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Сергей Солдатов

REPLY-TO-ALL is a double language blog (English/Russian) run by three information security practitioners. Want to discuss information security problems? This is the place.