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New Worm Starts Munching MSN Users
Kosmik writes "It appears that MSN has been struck by a vindictive new worm, according to security company Panda Software. The worm, acting in the vein of movies like the Ring and FearDotCom, delivers a fateful terror message and then proceeds to disable most of your protection software like anti-virus,firewalls and even your Windows control apps (TaskManager, Regedit). It distributes itself to all your MSN contacts by sending a video called 'Fantasma.'"
Off topic, I know, but need some good comebacks to the Microsoft Zealot that just sent this around at work:
Ben says: Yah, but it's open source.
John says: Open source is a bad joke hoist by their own petard on the Don Quixote's who hate MS (just because)
DEVELOPER 1: Let's spend all of our spare time writing something COOL.
DEVELOPER 2: Yeah, and we won't charge anything for it. That'll show Micro$oft.
BIG CORPORATION (not Micro$oft) EXECUTIVE 1: Let's use that COOL thing from DEVELOPER 1 and 2. It's doesn't cost anything and it's already at version 0.02. All of the blogs say that by version 1.0 it will be even COOLER.
BIG CORPORATION (not Micro$oft) EXECUTIVE 2: Yeah, we'll make ton's of money off it and be the next Micro$oft.
BIG CORPORATION (not Micro$oft) EXECUTIVE 1: Wow, we're done and we only spent twice as much money developing with the buggy undocumented version 0.02 of that COOL thing from DEVELOPER 1 and 2.
BIG CORPORATION (not Micro$oft) EXECUTIVE 2: Yeah, and we didn't pay Micro$oft one dime. Let's waste some more money sticking it to Micro$oft.
DEVELOPER 1: Hey, I'm thirsty and I don't have any money for my Dt Mt Dew.
DEVELOPER 2: Yeah, but at least BIG CORPORATION is making lot's of money off of our work and not Microsoft. Boy we showed Micro$oft.
DEVELOPER 1: Ok, but I need my Dt Mt Dew. Let's go do something else.
BIG CORPORATION (not Micro$oft) EXECUTIVE 1: Hey, nobody is supporting that COOL thing anymore. We're really screwed. Let's see if we can't pay Micro$oft an arm and a leg to solve our problem with their crappy software.
BIG CORPORATION (not Micro$oft) EXECUTIVE 2: No, let's use the COOL thing from DEVELOPERS 3 and 4. According to their web site, it will have everything we need just as soon as pigs can fly. And, it's free!
Anyone else have a hard time here reading Slashdot now that it's gone to this new layout/theme?
Is there any way I can go back to a Slashdot that values content over style?
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