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MyDoom Strikes Again
Renegade334 writes "Months after the last attack of MyDoom, MyDoom.AI returns. Like usual it was spread by e-mails with claims to have attachments that contain passwords for adult websites."
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Your IT department must be fans of Fox News. I can't count how many times Fox spins the news, no matter how bad, into something Bush has done right.
I seriously think that if news came out that Bush used to be an arsonist in his college days that Fox would spin it to somehow imply that Bush was simply doing neighborhood beautification projects.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Actually, it was a straight porn site.
I'm quite sure no slashdotter will ever bother to run the attachment.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Then a lot of otherwise nice persons would get deleted :)
I agree completely, unless the user does not read/speak English natively. Although, in this case, that may not be very relevant.
Honestly, there really is no excuse to stick with Windows unless there's some mission-critical program that is vital to your business needs or something.
Or maybe you're not made out of money like most Mac zealots? Yeah, I know they just released some rinky-dink POS under $500 system so this argument would seem to lose steam, but when you look at what you get for $500 from Apple and what I can slap together in off-the-shelf components that will be affordable to both upgrade and replace when they break it starts to feel like less of a deal.
At this point I would rather see people recommending Linux as a Windows replacement since it won't require a substantial cash outlay for yet another proprietary operating system designed to limit the user's freedom in the future. Linux, via several existing distributions, has got to be at least as user friendly as Mac these days. I know I've recommended Mac in the past to at least two people and one of them has constant issues (largely due being unwilling to RTFM or put in any effort on his own)--luckily he does not *appear* to have any problems with this kind of malware. If they asked me today, I would offer to build them a system from scratch and install Linux on it rather than recommending a Mac.
My point here is that Mac is not the easy way out you make it sound like it is. In fact, if it hadn't been for a long series of headaches I had with my own iMac about six years ago, I may not have become a Linux fan when I did (if ever). I was very close, at the time, to switching to Windows--thankfully there was a little distro called Yellow Dog Linux that saved me from that.
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