Update Now! A Holiday Carol

In the spirit of the holidays, a cautionary tale set to the tune of a classic Christmas song

Update Now!

To the tune of "Jingle Bells"

Browsing through the Web

On a Win XP PC

Clicking random links

To see what I could see



Nothing looked amiss

No warnings to be seen

But there I was on Christmas Eve

With malware on my screen



Chorus:

Update now, update now

Update all the way!

Oh, what fun you will not have

With malware in your day.

Update now, update now

Update all the way!

Oh, what fun you will not have

With malware in your day.

A day or two ago

A pop-up did appear

"Update now," it said

I canceled with no fear.



My antivirus, too

Expired late last year

I thought I'd save a buck or two

But now I'm paying dear.



(chorus)

Can't get enough holiday infosec songs/poems? Here are a couple more: "A Nightmare Before Christmas" and "Grandma Got Infected by a Trojan." Maxim Weinstein, CISSP, is a technologist and educator with a passion for information security. He works in product marketing at Sophos, where he specializes in server protection solutions. He is also a board member and former executive director of StopBadware. Maxim lives ... View Full Bio