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Nasty New Virus Variants
Lucidus writes "Numerous journals, such as Mac Daily News and The Motley Fool, are reporting that the latest versions of the Beagle/Bagle virus can infect users' computers whether or not they open an attachment. Apparently, the simple act of selecting the message activates the code. Given that you have to select an E-mail to delete it, how are users supposed to protect themselves from this one?"
What business does a Macintosh fan site have reporting on Windows viruses?
Bunch of children over there celebrating it.
Heh. Well central planning is Facism, not Communism, and I can't really imagine a more facist company than Microsoft.
And while "free" things are a cornerstone of communism, I don't see any laws preventing capitalists from giving out free things...Hey, isn't that what M$ did to kill netscape?
ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
Bullshit.
All I do is re-install computers for friends & family who have had their computers 'up to date' ( I know because I set the update policy ), with virus scanners and up-to-date definitions, and still are infected by an endless stream of worms, browser hijacks, viruses, spyware and other crap.
You, sir, are talking bullshit.
The sad thing is the parent is both a troll and insightful.
The Unix experts have been saying for decades now that using a secure operating system will protect you from viruses.
The anti-virus industry would have you believe Unix was never populare enough to make this possable. WHAT A LOAD OF BS.
Unix was THE operating system for mainframes in the 1970's and 80's.
So they adjust the excuse "Oh well virus writers are only after desktops"... Wrong again.
First what is a virus?
According to The Dirty Dozen it is "The Ultimate Trojan Horse".
What do hackers do with trojens?
According to the book "Outside the Inner Circle" (By Microsoft press) trojens are used by hackers to gain more access to the servers they already have low level access on.
But to use the trojen you need to hack into the system to start with. Wouldn't it be great if you could trick a system admin (or better yet user) to install the trojen for you?
Thats what a virus is. That is what it's for. Every script kiddies wet dream has been for the last 2 decades a Unix virus.
And we don't have a Unix virus yet becouse the virus writers don't have any motivation to write one? Bull.
Outlook is just one example of just how sloppy Microsoft really is when it comes to software design.
Download and install ANY other e-mail client and you won't need to fear e-mail viruses. That's easy enough isn't it? You don't even need to install a new OS just use a better e-mail client.
I don't actually exist.