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Windows PCs face ‘huge’ virus threat
Financial Times via Drudge ^ | January 2 2006 18:18 | By Kevin Allison in San Francisco

Posted on 01/02/2006 3:54:03 PM PST by Swordmaker

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To: steve-b; All

OK, so I ran the fix from hexblog and rebooted.

But when I ran their detection tool afterwards, I still got the bad news.

"Your system is vulnerable to WMF exploits".


201 posted on 01/04/2006 4:56:35 AM PST by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it!)
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To: dinodino
"I hate to break it to you, Mericco, but OSX is a great operating system.

Depends on what you want to do with it. If "very little" describes your computing needs, you are good to go.

202 posted on 01/07/2006 7:58:56 PM PST by PetiteMericco
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To: zeugma
I refer you back to my post above #134. If you want to talk about Occams Razor, you might consider the fact that perhaps it is a lot harder to write a successful virus for Linux and/or OSX than it is for MS-Windows.

In return, I refer you to any thread relating to Mac computers on Fark.com for the last two weeks, including this one shooting down the silly theory of writing viruses for glory.

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1846304

203 posted on 01/07/2006 8:01:11 PM PST by PetiteMericco
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To: steve-b
"Are you really so disconnected from reality that you don't realize that sociopathic criminals care about the "respect" they get from other sociopathic criminals, and don't give a damn about the opinions of normal people?

No, but you can be assured that this is not something with regard to my computer that keeps me up at night.

Of course, if what you say is true, your computer is at greater risk than mine simply based on the fact that it's a greater score. Nighty night!

204 posted on 01/07/2006 8:08:29 PM PST by PetiteMericco
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To: PetiteMericco

Well, gee, let's see: I run a PPC405 cross compiler toolchain on it, an X server, SSH and Subversion, use it for email, use Firefox to browse, and run iTunes and Photoshop. I would say you are talking out of ignorance. Perhaps Microsoft Solitaire is the most complicated app you run?


205 posted on 01/10/2006 2:18:20 PM PST by dinodino
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