Actually, the patch was released even before conficker started appearing. The systems effected are the ones that dont update. "Conficker, aka Downadup, which began circulating in late November, exploits the MS08-067 vulnerability patched by Microsoft last October" http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/19/conficker_worm_feed/

Sager doesn't make laptops, they buy barebones from Clevo fill em up and resell them. None of these laptops actually come close to competing with Clevos top offering. (although the metabox is a rebranded clevo) spec out the Clevo D901C on RJtech.com and you get a 3Ghz Quad, dual 9800M GTX 1GB DDR3 (each, for a total of 2GB graphics ram). and you can add 3 128 SSD's in raid 0 and 8GB of RAM from newegg for a total of 5899$. thats lightyears ahead of even the best Alienware and 1000's cheaper