I absolutely do not comprehend why people continue to use this software.
The very fact that it WAS spyware has kept me from using, even since they had supposedly gotten rid of it. Of course, I am a fairly paranoid individual. I see this as a good thing, however.
There are plenty of alternatives out there that are not spyware and don't go screwing with things they shouldn't be.
As for being fixed long ago... MS releases patches as well, and many times the worms propogate because of many sysadmin's who don't apply said patches -- this is a similar case.
You ask why so much interest. Could you perhaps be more specific? Why so much interest in open-source, or worms, or the ever-prevalent hypocritical comments that are made by a few ignorant people claiming to be on the side of open-source?
In response to your second question (did my solitaire game blue-screen): No, it didn't. It hasn't since I upgraded from 98 to 2000 and later from 2000 to XP.
I find it terribly amusing how for years the open-source community has used the larger number of holes found in Windows systems as one of their arguments against it. Yet now when the open-source community is also plagued with the same thing the comments tend to be along the line of 'Windows still sux.' and 'Do you know how much you're hurting the open-source movement? Please stop.'
Seems to me like older anti-MS comments are coming around and biting people in the ass.
Slashdot Mirror
Let's get the media to cover this...send the story to the following:
n ews.magazines@abc.comk /forms/form11.html?1
viewerservices@msnbc.com
wnn@abcnews.com
abc.
http://www.cnn.com/feedbac
Perhaps a large campaign for coverage will convince them to let the public know what happened.
CTR
They must be using write-only memory.
You know, kinda like read-only memory; only different.
What we need next is a Pong hack.
You can't beat Pong.
I absolutely do not comprehend why people continue to use this software.
The very fact that it WAS spyware has kept me from using, even since they had supposedly gotten rid of it. Of course, I am a fairly paranoid individual. I see this as a good thing, however.
There are plenty of alternatives out there that are not spyware and don't go screwing with things they shouldn't be.
As for being fixed long ago... MS releases patches as well, and many times the worms propogate because of many sysadmin's who don't apply said patches -- this is a similar case.
You ask why so much interest. Could you perhaps be more specific? Why so much interest in open-source, or worms, or the ever-prevalent hypocritical comments that are made by a few ignorant people claiming to be on the side of open-source?
In response to your second question (did my solitaire game blue-screen): No, it didn't. It hasn't since I upgraded from 98 to 2000 and later from 2000 to XP.
I find it terribly amusing how for years the open-source community has used the larger number of holes found in Windows systems as one of their arguments against it. Yet now when the open-source community is also plagued with the same thing the comments tend to be along the line of 'Windows still sux.' and 'Do you know how much you're hurting the open-source movement? Please stop.'
Seems to me like older anti-MS comments are coming around and biting people in the ass.
This is horrible. Absolutely horrible. And I am serious. May the AOLites rot in hell.