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'Bagle' Worm Heading For A Windows PC Near You
mrSinclair writes "the 'Bagle' or 'Beagle' worm is expected to hit the U.S. by midweek, probably Tuesday as many employees return from a three-day weekend." He points to this Washington Post story (via Yahoo!), which describes the Windows mass-mailing worm as being transmitted via email as an .exe attachment and as installing "a program that lets attackers connect to infected machines, install malicious software or steal files." The article says Bagle has been detected in more than 100 countries. Other readers have sent in links to coverage at the BBC and at SearchSecurity.com.
In a perfect world, one WOULDN'T need to take these precautions...
Nobody said anything about a perfect world. But there is a real world outside of Microsoft where we software users can trust the guys who wrote the code to at least have our best interests in mind.
Trusted computing will fix this when longhorn debuts in 200X. People will buy it thinking their computer is safe and they won't be in the position they are now to fuck their computer up with the click of the mouse.
I just spent hours running ad-aware and pc-cillin on my roomates computer to remove dozens of spyware programs. I have no idea how they got on there and it would do me no good to ask him. Face it, not everyone cares enough to learn how to protect their computer from this shit. They won't care and we should just accept it instead of trying to force good habits on them. Think of all those old english ladies that just gave up years ago to make the rest of us sensable human beings.