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Windows Virus Takes Out Gov't Agencies in MD, PA
Zolzar writes "Looks like the Md. State Motor Vehicles Administration is the first government agency reporting a failure of their systems due to the recent virus." This is a more specific story about the outage. And the city of Philadelphia has suffered as well.
Apple with 15% market share?
I think you are dreaming, Apple zealot.
Proud patriot and republican voter.
How do you know this person was trying to get people to switch to Linux (or anything non-MS)?
S/he could just be an ordinary asshole, without a point to prove.
Absolutely, assholes are like opinions... even OpenBSD has them.
http://jesus.everdense.com/
"and the Feds are LOOKING for you this time"
Big whoop, they're looking for Osama too. But that doesn't stop them from locking the cockpit doors. The real story here isn't that MS sucks, or that there are bad people in the world. The story is that there are a whole bunch of computer illiterate morons who use Windows for critical tasks.
Windows is a Mickey Mouse toy and the sooner people acknowledge that fact, the better off we'll all be.
This is funny. An exploit comes out, MS puts out a patch, /.ers bash MS for not having it out in time. An exploit comes out, MS puts out a critical update weeks ahead of time, /.ers bash MS for needing a patch. A script kiddie brings Windows to it's knees, /.ers say it's ok because it was MS. A script kiddie attacks *nix, /.ers say "OMG they killed *nix! You bastards! Oh well it will be back in the next patch."
/.ers praise them for patching it even if it comes out after the exploit has been used to vandalize *nix systems.
An exploit comes out for *nix, they put out a patch,
This attitude makes me hate *nix with a passion. If it's so great then learn to program and help them make my applications run on it. I have 2 flavors of *nix running at my house and I use the Windows machine 99% of the time.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one the bus load of girls just went down.
Many organizations actually test patches out on non-production machines before randomly installing software that Microsoft says is OK. This is pure stupidness, Microsoft have lately shown good testing environments, and one can be almost 99% sure that the patches do not mess up users' systems. It's been like ages since a patch caused any bluescreens.
Which has only been labled 'critical' very recently, and, as far as I can tell, isn't on the suggested list of patches when Windows Update runs. I spent a good part of last night putting together a web page for my friends telling them what was wrong and how to fix it.
That's 100% a lie. It was a critical update on 7/16. Has been ever since. Of course it's on the suggested list of updates. Nobody knows what you're smoking.
Next.
"Sufferin' succotash."