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Article #21Re: Should Motherboard makers bundle Linux CD with every shipment?
From: 7
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:13
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:13
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DevilsPGD wrote: > In message <9PNbk.21253$E41.2558@text.news.virginmedia.com> 7 > <website_has_email@www.enemygadgets.com> wrote: > >>Thats just not as moot as it once was. There are more WINDUMMY Osen >>viruses, malware, spyware, trojans, keyloggers, botnetware and spamware >>released per day than all of the engineers from micoshaft corporation, its >>partners and all the anti-virus companies can write fixes. > > Of course there are. Well over 90% of every end user desktop is running > Windows. Even the ones that jumped to OSX still have Windows running > too. And some 320 million of those PCs are infected. >>The Micoshaft platform is >>unfixable and unmaintable. IT Admins are being hoodwinked about the >>reality of it all into a false sense of security. > > Maybe, but there are those of us who just don't seem to have problems. > My last security compromise was in the 90s, and I run several internet > facing servers without hardware firewalls (we use IPsec based traffic > controls), plus manage a number of Windows XP and Vista PCs, including > two Vista boxes hooked directly to the internet. Some 320 million of those WINDUMMY PCs are infected. > The biggest problem today is the blob of meat running the keyboard and > mouse, the one clicking "Allow" to install that "codec pack" to see an > upskirt shot of $TRASHYCELEBOFTHEHOUR. You are just an asstroturfer expounding crap. You should try telling THAT to users with all their data and business locked into computers that can't be retrieved because of all the viruses in their PC. Its costing them down time and money and if they don't string you up there and then, then its probably because you have run away.
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