This one is too good to keep.
Apparently Skype is claiming that their recent outage was due to a lack of network resources prompted by lots of people rebooting their PCs at once after a windows update. Skype's network had previously been though to be resilient to attacks due to the distributed nature of the network, but it seems like the old adage "It works better if you turn it on" is applicable here.
Skype's comment on the situation is here. Looks like this situation also brought to light a previously unknown bug in their network resource allocation algorithm, so finding and fixing the bug might be a silver lining to all the abuse they've taken over the outage.
Yes, I know, this isn't strictly spyware-related, but I consider update-related issues to be relevant, as most of the patches distributed by Windows Update are security fixes.
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Hi, I also agree with you that on updating the windows,speed of the system may slightly decrease due to the finding and fixing the bug in the system. But after that the performance increase and system compatibility towards malicious program also increase.
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