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US: New Laws - Thou Shalt Patch

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New Laws: Thou Shalt Patch

By Jeffrey Benner

2:00 a.m. July 31, 2001 PDT

With no real power to force action, the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center often finds itself waving its arms, hoping for attention when a threat like the Code Red virus emerges. Often, the warnings go unheeded.

But that may be changing. Federal rules that will make it obligatory for specific sectors to download virus patches are already here, and more are coming.

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