Feelin' safe and snug on Linux while the Windows world burns? Stop that

I shoulda patched what now?

The ransomware problems reported by The Reg over the past few weeks are enough to make you, er, wanna cry. Yet all that's happened is that known issues with Windows machines - desktop and server - have now come to everyone's attention and the bandwidth out of Microsoft's Windows Update servers has likely increased a bit relative to the previous few weeks."