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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.
When will you people learn?
//standsolid//
Stop using Windows.
that is all
WTPOUAWYHTTOTWPA
What's the point of using acronyms when you have to type out the whole phrase anyways?
bullshit, if you are stupid enough to alow an escalation of priviledge attack, or install a trojan, maybe. Problem is Windows(tm) users are just plain stupid and have been made lazy!
OH THE SHAME I fell off the wagon and use sigs again!
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.
Not everyone can leave Windows. Unix is for administrators and servers.
Unix is a security joke as well. It just sucks less then WIndows. Ask any VMS admin. Pipes are a nightmare.
You need to patch your Linux/Unix box about as often. With Windows you can select "Windowsupdate" and your done. Not quite as easy under Linux thanks to RPM hell.
Certainly not for the average joe.
I need MS-Office because I have shitty grammer, play video games, and its a breeze to setup all my programing apps. I have both python 1.52 and 2.2 both installed together. I can just point and click to install anything.
Hell no "real" ide's exist for Unix if you try to give me the development argument. Yes I know emacs but it has no autoword completetion for any of the api's.
Before you mod me down, let me say I run FreeBSD 4.9 and have been using Unix for years and still do.
Just its not feasible. It is not nor ever designed as a desktop OS.
It was designed as a hackers toy for minicomputers/servers.
http://saveie6.com/
Click this.</Trinity>
What time is it/will be over there? Check with my iPhone app!
if they can't figger out run-as, how do u expect them to use linux???
i no not of any childrens games for the linux.
Or maybe that Linux is just harder to use?