Re: Look at this critical patch from M$ Corporation

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From: Mac Breck
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 04:12

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"Straker" <sky.diver@moonbase.alpha> wrote in message
news:210920032114567835%sky.diver@moonbase.alpha...
> In article <bkke2v$1os$0@208.239.203.32>, Mac Breck
> <macthevorlon@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Oh great, now this shit (an attempt to get you to infect your PC with a
> > work, ) is showing up on newsgroups!
> >
> > W32.Swen.A@mm  is a "mass-mailing worm."  It attempts to kill antivirus
and
> > personal firewall
> > programs running on a computer.
>
> You just have to love Microsoft and its EULAs. Somebody interviewed for
> the NY Times a couple of months ago put it very well. He noted that if
> an auto maker had a critical design flaw in a car that injures just one
> person, they get sued, but while Microsoft has a couple of critical
> vulnerabilities every week causing untold millions of dollars of
> damage, somehow they're not sued. What's wrong with this picture?

Maybe it's because thousands of hackers aren't out there trying to make the
cars fail on the road?

-- 
Mac Breck (KoshN) - from the desktop PC
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From: "Mac Breck" <macthevorlon@yahoo.com>
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