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New IM Worm Installs Own Web Browser
Aquafinality writes "A new IM worm discovered recently takes the novel step of installing its own web browser onto the victims PC. Ironically titled "The Safety Browser", its default settings actually make your PC less secure - switching on pop-ups, changing your home page and hijacking your desktop with a looped music track that plays every time you switch your computer on.
It's clear people cannot resist clicking "yes" to anything they're presented with via IM - with this in mind, what on Earth can we do so stop the spread of garbage like the above? To put it another way, will reducing the amount of potential "suckers" out there dissuade the bad guys from coming up with ever-more elaborate ideas such as this latest scam? Or is IM safety a lost cause?"
Yeah...bash MS. It's definately their fault.
It wouldn't be the lamers that are too stupid to resist
clicking on any link sent to them, would it?
Yeah Linux is great. Too bad it's still a toy.
Too bad no useful software runs on it,
without a lame Windows Emulator,
that slows it down to a crawl.
Most of the design software I use won't run on Linux period.
The gimp is NOT a replacement for Photoshop,
and there is NO CAD software worth anything either.
Some revolution.
Tell you what....
as soon as Linux runs all of the software
I need for work, I'll run with it.
Wow ... I didn't know that.
Now maybe you could explain sarcasm to me....
I rarely read replies, it's my opinion and if you thought about your opinion a little more, I'm OK with that.
Like os x does? what a new feature!