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What actually went wrong?
The technical issue seems to lie with the way that Microsoft was naming updates for its malware-scanning engine, putting the year, month, and day (220101) at the front of another four-digit number (0001).
Microsoft seems to use this system because when an update is named “2,201,010,001” it is simple to mathematically check which update is the most recent as it will have the higher value.
In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom (J.G.Ballard).
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