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Microsoft Virus Spam: SoBig.F

Posted by michael on from the trustworthy-computing dept.

If you're being barraged with Microsoft virus spam emails today, this story notes that it's a flare-up of an older Microsoft virus in a new, improved form. Yay for trustworthy computing.

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  1. Unix History by linuxislandsucks · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Considerign that whne the Windows project was started at MS that Unix code was closed off to review and learning from would it be too much to conclude that AT&T's efforts to close Unix(System V) code off so tha tpeople could not learn to write secure OS kernel code might have something to do with the major mistakes made in MS Kernel code in the early 1980s that we are still experiencing?

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  2. MS flame war by IFF123 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I see SCo changed it's strategy.
    Now they are targeting MS.

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  3. Flame Microsoft by Nobody's+Hero · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Begin the Flaming now.

    yay for unbiased slashdot!

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  4. Encouraging. by mr_luc · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, I'm not questioning them. I'm encouraging them. The tagline they put after this latest SCO story was pretty great -- 'SCO is simply lying'. *POW!*

    More like *that*, man! More like THAT! For a news source as widely read as /. is, that's some pretty plain talkin'. ;)

  5. Re:Editors need to be more honest. by NaugaHunter · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, that's just it. Their 'Trustworthy computing' slogan is all about making sure they can trust your computer to only run what they feel you have rights to. However, this goes against what it sounds like it means, and possibly even how they market it. In other words, a person would find their own computer trustworthy if they could trust it to not screw itself up, but this is not what Microsoft means.

    So I viewed the 'trustworthy computing' statement more of a comment on the irony of the difference of what they mean by it, and what users probably would want it to mean.

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  6. I understand by Linux+Kernel+2.6.0 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    After many years of trying to make do with myself, I have also finally given up. Yes that's right, I've switched to Windows XP.
    I find that so far I am easier to use, and now have more time for the lady kernels.

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  7. Re:Editors need to be more honest. by gosand · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Could you just have written "Hey, anything that discourages Windows use!" after the story? I mean, christ, that's exactly what probably a good 90% of people here are thinking when they read these stories.

    Actually, I think "Wow, I am glad that my main machine at home is running Linux so I don't have to deal with this garbage."

    But I do agree with your assessment of the "editor's" comments. Not necessary.

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  8. Re:Uglification by koh · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Get yourselves up and fork GNOME already !

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  9. pif vs vi by nsahoo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I opened a pif out of curiosity in my pet gvim, it appeared harmless .. i mean it didn't reboot me or anything .. what risk are you people talking about? :P

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