[cooldog]

The author of this piece is a moron (or a maroon, depending on how long one's been a Freeper). More than half the risk of the trojans and virii and other comprimises is that they turn your machine into zombie, cranking out virus or spam emails by the tens of thousands, or that they use your machine as a part of a network for distributed denial-of-service attacks.

This is a case of a little knowledge (and a ready pen) being a very dangerous thing.

[ThePythonicCow]

Yup - a maroon.

[BJungNan]

The author of this piece is a moron (or a maroon, depending on how long one's been a Freeper). More than half the risk of the trojans and virii and other comprimises is that they turn your machine into zombie, cranking out virus or spam emails by the tens of thousands,...

How many zombies and trojans stay on a machine after the hard drive has been reformated? I think you missed something there.

[tarheelswamprat]

This is a case of a little knowledge (and a ready pen) being a very dangerous thing.

Correct. The title of this article should have been "Run Fast, Run Naked, Run Stupid".