Yes, seriously - is this the only basis for reporting this? Somebody just now discovering it on Amazon.co.uk, when it has been there for months? That is the ONLY place any kind of date has been announced, and it hasn't changed there in a loooong time. Not likely - perhaps SOME sort of checking on this should have been done?
And it is dangerous how exactly? As far as I can tell, it is no more dangerous than any other application framework.
I think you're getting the.NET framework (what the virus targets) and the overall MS.NET strategy (Passport, Web Services, etc.) Not that they've made it easy to differentiate them but they are very different.
The.NET framework has nothing to do with Passport, other than it can be used to write a Passport client (just like you can with Java, C++, VB, Perl, etc.)
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Yes, seriously - is this the only basis for reporting this? Somebody just now discovering it on Amazon.co.uk, when it has been there for months? That is the ONLY place any kind of date has been announced, and it hasn't changed there in a loooong time. Not likely - perhaps SOME sort of checking on this should have been done?
Here's the archived version at the Wayback Machine. It's superior to the Google cache - has the images cached, and no keywords highlighted.
And it is dangerous how exactly? As far as I can tell, it is no more dangerous than any other application framework. I think you're getting the .NET framework (what the virus targets) and the overall MS .NET strategy (Passport, Web Services, etc.) Not that they've made it easy to differentiate them but they are very different.
The .NET framework has nothing to do with Passport, other than it can be used to write a Passport client (just like you can with Java, C++, VB, Perl, etc.)
erm ... C# has pointers. Or were you referring to Java? ;)