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Microsoft Apologizes for Serving Malware
dark_15 writes "Microsoft has apologized for serving malware via its websites and Windows Live Messenger software. APC reader Jackie Murphy reported the problem: 'With Microsoft launching Vista along with their Defender software to protect users from viruses and spyware, it seems therefore to be an oxymoron that they have started to putting paid changing banner advertisements for malware, on the popular MSN groups servers.'"
Started to putting?
Does anyone proofread anything anymore?
What fool would be taken in by this?
Personally, I'm downloading SystemDoctor 2007.
Intron: the portion of DNA which expresses nothing useful.
ISR, Microsoft serves malware to ... uh... you serve malware to microsoft!
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AKA microsoft doing business as usual, is it not? Which is why in my book Vista et. al will be classified as malware until proven differently a couple of years down the road.
...Open Source isn't the only answer -- but it's almost always a better value than the alternatives...
It's much worse than that. Each time you click a link, somewhere, a server dies.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
... building an "OS" that allows anyone else who wants to place malware on your computer the ability to do it without your knowledge. Please click "OK" if you would like to accept this Apoligy.
Risk Impact: High
Systems Potentially Affected: All PCs
Behavior:
Windows.vista is malware that gobbles up all resources on a machine and renders it unusable. Suggested solution is to visit the following malware cleansing site : http://fedora.redhat.com/
Gator apologized for advertising Windows Vista. "Obviously this sort of malware slipped through our screening process, " they quipped.
One ring to bind them - should probably have more fiber and less rings in their diet.
Just stop injecting medkits you find lying around in some random alley and you will be fine.
Reminds me of a UserFriendly comic
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20050130
Maybe the article was dictated to a Windows machine.
"Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all."
Contrast to a tautology, such as "Slashdot-reading virgin".
Cor, I'm getting nasty in my old age.
Hail Eris, full of mischief...
E pluribus sanguinem
"With Microsoft launching Vista along with their Defender software to protect users from viruses and spyware, it seems therefore to be an oxymoron that they have started to putting paid changing banner advertisements for malware, on the popular MSN groups servers."
Linguo: Error! Error! Bad grammar overload! System shutdown imminent!
Hope soon we will see the "Microsoft Apologizes for Selling Malware" headline.
I thought everything from M$ after Win 3.11 was malware!
Professional Politicians are not the solution, they ARE the problem.
Cor, I'm getting nasty in my old age.
You're that old and still a virgin? No wonder you're cranky
That's a known Mozilla bug. Instead of crashing when clicking on a link, the browser attempts to open the URL listed in the href of the A tag, and will actually do so if the server is reachable and returns a page.
This is technically correct according to HTTP and HTML specifications, but unexpected behavior with users used to IE's 'crash feature'. As a workaround, instead of clicking on a link, you can press Alt+F4 or click on the X in the upper-right corner of the browser window, which will close your browser window.
If corporations are people, aren't stockholders guilty of slavery?