1 Build torrent site 2 Invite *AA to have a look 3 Get users to send in money for "Legal defence" 4 Cave in to *AA for small proportion of sums received. 4 Profit !
Stop trying to paper over the gaping cracks. Send all the marketroids away for as long as it takes and fix your damned O/s.
Don't make it so easy for scumware to get installed. Don't allow it so many places to launch itself from at startup. Write an applet that allows the user to control EXACTLY what gets started when Windows boots (no, MSConfig doesn't do the job as stuff can still get executed which isn't listed in there..HTA viruses anyone ?)
And wake up to the fact that the internet is a public place where anything goes. It's 2005 and you're still shipping an O/S that, straight out of the box, is not only totally unprotected, but is listening for connections from the internet. Were all your security staff on holiday when that design "feature" got approved ?
On this note you might also stop your browser/mail client/every bloody piece of software you produce installing code/accepting connections/running embedded scripts from anyone, anywhere at any time - often with no user intervention requied.
Sorry but the design of your O/S is fundamentally flawed and no amount of buying Anti Virus/Anti Spyware firms is going to help you, nor will it make it look like you care. It just makes you look incompetent and incapable of securing YOUR OWN O/S.
Lets face it. The current spyware and virus problems should not exist in the first place. The fact they do in their current state proves how flawed your O/S is. Even if they were able to get installed on your box the user should have enough control that they can trivially stop them running and remove them.
Last week I went to a frieds house after his wife told me their computer was getting really slow. When I got there I found an XP home machine, in a bog standard configuration as suppied by a large computer store, sitting on a 1Mb broadband connection. The machine also had automatic updates switched on and working.
But you can guess the rest. I installed the usual AVG, Zone Alarm, Spybot S&D, Ad-Aware and then switched off their network connection and got to work.
Over 16,000 viruses, more than 6,000 spyware compnents found by Spybot with an extra 300 plus found by Ad Aware. And all they'd been using the machine for is browsing the internet - mainly so their kid could do homework.
Your operating system sucks. Your designers are incompetent. Your coders are idiots.
Sorry but every time I use a GNOME file save/open dialogue I realise how bloody good the Microsoft Common Dialogue control is (with the exception of Microsoft Office which has it's own version of the control which is absolute crap)
When using GNOME then not being able to type in a directory path and have the control switch context to the directory I've just typed slows me down immensely. Given *nixes tab complete feature this would be a tremendous productivity boost.
Also not having the ability to type in partial filenames (with "wildcards") and then hit enter to update the display to show only those files that match the search pattern is a complete pain.
And sorry but GNOMES patalogical refusal to make use of the filesystems hierarchical tree analogy is just plain wrong.
I'll say it again. I like GNOME but there's so much of it's interface that is so counter productive and seems to have been introduced in a "we know best" manner.
Finally I'll say it again, if an application allows me to add multiple file system objects to a list it should let me add multiple objects at the same time.
And the real reason the *AA are trying to get P2P banned is not because they're losing revenue (they're not, their profits are up) but because P2P threatens their distribution monopoly.
If P2P really kicks off then they're not going to be able to "push" their latest crap at people any more. Using P2P transfers everything to a "pull" model and, who knows, people may actually start looking for new interesting stuff on their own. Before too long independent artists/small time players will get equal access to "ear space".
And once their distribution monopoly is cracked they'll go the way of the dinosaurs. They know this, we know this. That's why they're after P2P.
"Illegal" downloads are the best free advertising the music "industry" ever had (just look at the relationship between CD sales and downloads from Napster and Audiogalaxy)
Their problem is that they just can't sell the same amount of crappy advertising or rig the playlists any more. Their payola funds will come to nothing and the "indutry" parasites will have to work for a living.
But can you now select more than one file at once when, for instance, choosing desktop wallpapers ? or must you still go through the entire rigmarole of using about 5 clicks to move through the dialogs to select each file in turn... one after the other... then the next one.... and the next...
And when in Nautilus can you now use a key on the keyboard to move your current selection between all files that start with that letter e.g. pressing the "a" key will in turn select "About.html", "Alberts Pants.jpg", "another load of arse" etc. etc. (and in this case no *NIX case sensitivity please)
In other words have they caught up with some of the most basic bits of the Windows 95 interface that made it good. Or are you still expected to click & drool at everything with the mouse ?
So go ahead and mod me troll for these comments but they're the major reasons why GNOME isn't my desktop of choice. I actually do like the idea of GNOME but I simply can't stand the amount of mouse work/repetition involved. Similarly if I can add multiple items to a list I expect to be able to simultaneously add multiple items at the same time. That's good user interface design.
And I won't even mention spatial Nautilus as that's a joke too far. It's just a wretched, wretched design. It shouldn't be on by default and you should be able to turn it off directly from Nautilus. It's a view mode and it should be configurable directly from the interface.
Well I'd like to see the actual cost of proper disposal to be added to the cost of all items. And the money should be removed at the time of purchase and put in a government held fund so companies can't welch out by going tactically bankrupt etc.
Hell I'd also like the cost of non renewable resources to be increased dramatically.
This would have many benefits. The first being that we'd fill the environment with less crap for future generations to deal with and it might encourage people both to use sustainable resources in the crap they produce and also to make stuff that lasts longer than (gurantee_period + 5 seconds).
At the very least you should be able to get spare parts for stuff long after it's no longer made then at least you could repair it.
But then again I also believe in making the polluters pay so I must be living in cloud cuckoo land.
And assuming they somehow manage to come up with a technological miracle and I actually can't rip it (unlikely) I'll re-record it via my amps digital out. Failing that I'll use my DAT machine to do the DA conversion from my amps output and transfer that to my PC.
Hell... in the very case worst I'll rerecord it using my amps analogue outs. And you bet I'll p2p this stuff out of spite if nothing else.
SCMS/DRM/Copy protection etc. etc. etc. What a waste of time.
Still at least I suppose it's keeping some tech people in jobs coming up with this totally unworkable, unnecessary and consumer unfriendly crap.
In other news here in the U.K. the police have also produced a handy fill in form for you to list anything you've done "that you think they should be aware of". These forms are available from any good police station (open 12:00 'til 12:10, Aug 15th only)
Customs & Excise are expected to follows suit soon after with the Departments of Work and Pensions and the Child Support Agency lagging not far behind.
And don't forgot... You can also fill them in on behalf of your friends, neighbours, spouse or kids.
VME (Virtual Machine Enviroment) systems now owned by Fujitsu but developed by ICL (International Computers Limited) also had version numbers for files as part of their file system.
Having been "brought up" with VMEs file system I have always found more modern operating systems to be rather poor in comparison.
Just borked an edit on a file ? No problem. Edit the -1 generation and recover the file.
Borked the last 5 edits ? No problem. Just recover the -6 generation of the file.
You puny humans and your single file generations. Our space fleet will annihilate you.
Surely the correct response (in as much of my understanding of the wacky world of the American legal system) is for him to hire one of your legendary "no win no fee" lawyers and immediately counter sue for untold billions of dollars in damages (I'm sure there's some reason he could do this)
From an outsiders perspective it looks like the American legal "system" (sic) is going to be the death of America.
First we get shitty chipped cartidges and printers that attempt to nag you into not using the much cheaper generic alternatives. Then we get Lexmark printers phoning home. Now we have HP making region coded cartridges. What a complete bunch of wankers the printer manufacturers are. Talk about stifling competition.
Sadly however clueless users will not realise they're being stiffed and will continue to be sold this crap by spotty salemen when they visit their local PC megastore.
However the rest of us should make sure that everyone we know is informed that HP suck and why.
I think I may be speaking for the majority of right thinking geeks when I say that HP can stick their region coded catridges right next to their printers, right up their arses.
I for one will be complaining to my MEP as this is clearly monopolistic and anti competitive behaviour.
Well as a European I've got say that I find it quite funny the amount of time and effort that America seems to spend making and enforcing utterly stupid laws.
I suppose the next thing is you'll have one of your media lobby paid up congress critters trying to make it illegal to read as this could lead you to develop the skills to possibly infringe on company Xs IP.
Meanwhile the rest of the world, and especially China, don't give a shit about your silly IP & Patent laws and will continue to reverse engineer everything you produce whilst learning how to do it faster/cheaper/better. So guess who'll be the ones writing tomorrows innovative software and guess where tomorrows sweat shops and call centres will be ?
Hint: The programmers won't be in the country where you can't do anything without fear of being sued into the ground for IP/copyright/patent infringment.
Every day Slashdot seems to carry another story making the GNU right to read look ever more prescient.
Well if it helps "purify" their search results I'm all for it. But another problem I'd love to see Google address is what I call "merchant spam results".
This is where you enter your search text in Google and the results include page after page of search results pointing to "price comparison" sites.
Fer fricks sake, there is nothing more infuriating that clicking on a Google result and getting a page from some lame, brain dead and retarded "compare prices" site that says "your search for returned no results".
And I'm not even going to name any of the sites as they don't deserve the publicity.
So please Google either filter this shit out or give me the option to create a blacklist so I can say "never return results from these sites".
Thankyou...
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Surely that should read "KDE does have plenty of Konnections"
Personally I'd like to see all internet advertising campaigns fail - utterly and completely. That way the people who treat the internet as digital TV can go and work in digital TV leaving the rest of us to get on with it.
And on a related note then in England you can join the Mailing Preference Service http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/mpsr/ which is supposed to stop you getting junk mail in the post.
However the Post Office seem to think that this doesn't apply to them and they still hand deliver various items of crud mail to you. So after politely asking them to stop and being told they wouldn't I now take all their junk mail and put it straight back in the nearest post office box.
Well this is not intended to be a troll but no doubt will get modded as one:)
But why the hell don't all the multitude "file open dialog" designers on Linux just get their shit together and see how the Windows common dialogue does it ?
Honestly the default file open dialogue in 90% of Windows applications is so much better to use than the multitude of different Linux equivalents (A notable exception is the Office suite which has it's own, uterrly shite, clunky and useless file open dialogue)
In my 'umble opinion the only way the Windows common dialogue could be improved is to add *NIX style tab completion for filenames and maybe give the user the option to preview files (with this option being rememberred between uses of the dialog. ALthough personally I'd never use I know some people like to see image previews etc.)
Sorry but it's now 2005 and Gnome is STILL farting about trying to get a decent file open dialog. It's no wonder that Microsoft, despite all their myriad, well publicised faults, remains king of the desktop.
And whilst I'm on... A top hint from me to the Gnome designers. If your application allows users to select multiple files (i.e. desktop wallpaper) let the user select more than one file at a time from the bloody dialog. There is absolutely nothing more irritating than having to make multiple bloody mouse clicks to add a file to a list then having to repeat the process for every single file you want to add to the list. This is click and drool computing a la WIndows 95 and I want no part of it. Your HIG be damned.
note to mods: If I was really trolling I'd have mentioned Spatial Nautilus by now;)
There already is an idiot proof PC... it's called the TV. And yes I am being serious.
Granted I'm not suggesting that TV is an actual PC but it provides just about the level of interaction that the average user seems to comprehend from a computing device.
Personally I think that what should really be happening is not that manufacturers start making cruddy underpowered computers but that "the evil doers (tm)" should create a really, really nasty and destructive IE exploit/virus/piece of malware.
That way the totally cluesless users would get their machines completely well and truly borked which would hopefully put them off going back on the internet until Microsoft fix their rotten browser and O/S. And I do believe a catastrophoic virus is the only thing that will cause them to actually do something.
I for one would welcome the increased leisure time that I would have from people not ceaselessly pestering me about their ceaseless spyware/adware infections.
The problem is not the computer, it's not the internet, it's not even the viruses. It's Windows and it's hopeless security model.
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Who cares a fig of browser X is 43 nanoseconds slower than browser Y when rendering a page.
Not me. I give a fig that browser X doesn't allow "the bad people" to take over my computer just by looking at their web site.
If I wanted speed I'd use good old links.
Fantastic !
1 Build torrent site
2 Invite *AA to have a look
3 Get users to send in money for "Legal defence"
4 Cave in to *AA for small proportion of sums received.
4 Profit !
Excellente.
How about "Winners don't use torrents" ?
:)
That really worked in the 80s and certainly stopped me taking shed loads of LSD, mushrooms, speed, exstacy and ganja
Whoopee ! A giant smiley man in the sky. Hoopla dee !!!111oneoneoneone11111!!!!
Hey Microsoft,
.HTA viruses anyone ?)
Stop trying to paper over the gaping cracks. Send all the marketroids away for as long as it takes and fix your damned O/s.
Don't make it so easy for scumware to get installed. Don't allow it so many places to launch itself from at startup. Write an applet that allows the user to control EXACTLY what gets started when Windows boots (no, MSConfig doesn't do the job as stuff can still get executed which isn't listed in there.
And wake up to the fact that the internet is a public place where anything goes. It's 2005 and you're still shipping an O/S that, straight out of the box, is not only totally unprotected, but is listening for connections from the internet. Were all your security staff on holiday when that design "feature" got approved ?
On this note you might also stop your browser/mail client/every bloody piece of software you produce installing code/accepting connections/running embedded scripts from anyone, anywhere at any time - often with no user intervention requied.
Sorry but the design of your O/S is fundamentally flawed and no amount of buying Anti Virus/Anti Spyware firms is going to help you, nor will it make it look like you care. It just makes you look incompetent and incapable of securing YOUR OWN O/S.
Lets face it. The current spyware and virus problems should not exist in the first place. The fact they do in their current state proves how flawed your O/S is. Even if they were able to get installed on your box the user should have enough control that they can trivially stop them running and remove them.
Last week I went to a frieds house after his wife told me their computer was getting really slow. When I got there I found an XP home machine, in a bog standard configuration as suppied by a large computer store, sitting on a 1Mb broadband connection. The machine also had automatic updates switched on and working.
But you can guess the rest. I installed the usual AVG, Zone Alarm, Spybot S&D, Ad-Aware and then switched off their network connection and got to work.
Over 16,000 viruses, more than 6,000 spyware compnents found by Spybot with an extra 300 plus found by Ad Aware. And all they'd been using the machine for is browsing the internet - mainly so their kid could do homework.
Your operating system sucks. Your designers are incompetent. Your coders are idiots.
But isn't that the target audience ;)
Hear hear.
Sorry but every time I use a GNOME file save/open dialogue I realise how bloody good the Microsoft Common Dialogue control is (with the exception of Microsoft Office which has it's own version of the control which is absolute crap)
When using GNOME then not being able to type in a directory path and have the control switch context to the directory I've just typed slows me down immensely. Given *nixes tab complete feature this would be a tremendous productivity boost.
Also not having the ability to type in partial filenames (with "wildcards") and then hit enter to update the display to show only those files that match the search pattern is a complete pain.
And sorry but GNOMES patalogical refusal to make use of the filesystems hierarchical tree analogy is just plain wrong.
I'll say it again. I like GNOME but there's so much of it's interface that is so counter productive and seems to have been introduced in a "we know best" manner.
Finally I'll say it again, if an application allows me to add multiple file system objects to a list it should let me add multiple objects at the same time.
Maybe one day ?
From the screen shots I've seen it now looks remarkably similar to the default mixer applet that sits in the Windows system tray.
:)
The only difference being that the playback and recording etc. controls are displayed using tabs rather than switching via a menu item.
So much better than the previous GNOME volume control but hardly a cause of great excitement
And the real reason the *AA are trying to get P2P banned is not because they're losing revenue (they're not, their profits are up) but because P2P threatens their distribution monopoly.
If P2P really kicks off then they're not going to be able to "push" their latest crap at people any more. Using P2P transfers everything to a "pull" model and, who knows, people may actually start looking for new interesting stuff on their own. Before too long independent artists/small time players will get equal access to "ear space".
And once their distribution monopoly is cracked they'll go the way of the dinosaurs. They know this, we know this. That's why they're after P2P.
"Illegal" downloads are the best free advertising the music "industry" ever had (just look at the relationship between CD sales and downloads from Napster and Audiogalaxy)
Their problem is that they just can't sell the same amount of crappy advertising or rig the playlists any more. Their payola funds will come to nothing and the "indutry" parasites will have to work for a living.
That's why they're crying.
> Imagine the next morning coming in to your office
> to find drug paraphernalia, or garbage, or
> possibily commutable diseases and parasites.
In my company we get this already from the nighshift.
The cheap bastards never leave us any drugs though.
But can you now select more than one file at once when, for instance, choosing desktop wallpapers ? or must you still go through the entire rigmarole of using about 5 clicks to move through the dialogs to select each file in turn... one after the other... then the next one.... and the next...
And when in Nautilus can you now use a key on the keyboard to move your current selection between all files that start with that letter e.g. pressing the "a" key will in turn select "About.html", "Alberts Pants.jpg", "another load of arse" etc. etc. (and in this case no *NIX case sensitivity please)
In other words have they caught up with some of the most basic bits of the Windows 95 interface that made it good. Or are you still expected to click & drool at everything with the mouse ?
So go ahead and mod me troll for these comments but they're the major reasons why GNOME isn't my desktop of choice. I actually do like the idea of GNOME but I simply can't stand the amount of mouse work/repetition involved. Similarly if I can add multiple items to a list I expect to be able to simultaneously add multiple items at the same time. That's good user interface design.
And I won't even mention spatial Nautilus as that's a joke too far. It's just a wretched, wretched design. It shouldn't be on by default and you should be able to turn it off directly from Nautilus. It's a view mode and it should be configurable directly from the interface.
Kudos to Rhythmbox though as that's ace !
Well I'd like to see the actual cost of proper disposal to be added to the cost of all items. And the money should be removed at the time of purchase and put in a government held fund so companies can't welch out by going tactically bankrupt etc.
Hell I'd also like the cost of non renewable resources to be increased dramatically.
This would have many benefits. The first being that we'd fill the environment with less crap for future generations to deal with and it might encourage people both to use sustainable resources in the crap they produce and also to make stuff that lasts longer than (gurantee_period + 5 seconds).
At the very least you should be able to get spare parts for stuff long after it's no longer made then at least you could repair it.
But then again I also believe in making the polluters pay so I must be living in cloud cuckoo land.
Art is art is art.
Whether it's created by a human, a wildebeest, a colony of insects, a microbe or a computer.
If it has the art nature it is art.
And assuming they somehow manage to come up with a technological miracle and I actually can't rip it (unlikely) I'll re-record it via my amps digital out. Failing that I'll use my DAT machine to do the DA conversion from my amps output and transfer that to my PC.
Hell... in the very case worst I'll rerecord it using my amps analogue outs. And you bet I'll p2p this stuff out of spite if nothing else.
SCMS/DRM/Copy protection etc. etc. etc. What a waste of time.
Still at least I suppose it's keeping some tech people in jobs coming up with this totally unworkable, unnecessary and consumer unfriendly crap.
Yeau but think what a great excuse this would be in court.
"No sirree, I did not share those precious **AA files. It was all the work of my evil printer and its built in P2P app."
In other news here in the U.K. the police have also produced a handy fill in form for you to list anything you've done "that you think they should be aware of". These forms are available from any good police station (open 12:00 'til 12:10, Aug 15th only)
Customs & Excise are expected to follows suit soon after with the Departments of Work and Pensions and the Child Support Agency lagging not far behind.
And don't forgot... You can also fill them in on behalf of your friends, neighbours, spouse or kids.
"Could it lead to a fax machine for complete living organisms?"
Uuurggh. Think of the porn spam.
VME (Virtual Machine Enviroment) systems now owned by Fujitsu but developed by ICL (International Computers Limited) also had version numbers for files as part of their file system.
Having been "brought up" with VMEs file system I have always found more modern operating systems to be rather poor in comparison.
Just borked an edit on a file ? No problem. Edit the -1 generation and recover the file.
Borked the last 5 edits ? No problem. Just recover the -6 generation of the file.
You puny humans and your single file generations. Our space fleet will annihilate you.
Surely the correct response (in as much of my understanding of the wacky world of the American legal system) is for him to hire one of your legendary "no win no fee" lawyers and immediately counter sue for untold billions of dollars in damages (I'm sure there's some reason he could do this)
From an outsiders perspective it looks like the American legal "system" (sic) is going to be the death of America.
H.P. to region code catridges...
Users to buy other brand printers...
First we get shitty chipped cartidges and printers that attempt to nag you into not using the much cheaper generic alternatives. Then we get Lexmark printers phoning home. Now we have HP making region coded cartridges. What a complete bunch of wankers the printer manufacturers are. Talk about stifling competition.
Sadly however clueless users will not realise they're being stiffed and will continue to be sold this crap by spotty salemen when they visit their local PC megastore.
However the rest of us should make sure that everyone we know is informed that HP suck and why.
I think I may be speaking for the majority of right thinking geeks when I say that HP can stick their region coded catridges right next to their printers, right up their arses.
I for one will be complaining to my MEP as this is clearly monopolistic and anti competitive behaviour.
Well as a European I've got say that I find it quite funny the amount of time and effort that America seems to spend making and enforcing utterly stupid laws.
I suppose the next thing is you'll have one of your media lobby paid up congress critters trying to make it illegal to read as this could lead you to develop the skills to possibly infringe on company Xs IP.
Meanwhile the rest of the world, and especially China, don't give a shit about your silly IP & Patent laws and will continue to reverse engineer everything you produce whilst learning how to do it faster/cheaper/better. So guess who'll be the ones writing tomorrows innovative software and guess where tomorrows sweat shops and call centres will be ?
Hint: The programmers won't be in the country where you can't do anything without fear of being sued into the ground for IP/copyright/patent infringment.
Every day Slashdot seems to carry another story making the GNU right to read look ever more prescient.
Well if it helps "purify" their search results I'm all for it. But another problem I'd love to see Google address is what I call "merchant spam results".
This is where you enter your search text in Google and the results include page after page of search results pointing to "price comparison" sites.
Fer fricks sake, there is nothing more infuriating that clicking on a Google result and getting a page from some lame, brain dead and retarded "compare prices" site that says "your search for returned no results".
And I'm not even going to name any of the sites as they don't deserve the publicity.
So please Google either filter this shit out or give me the option to create a blacklist so I can say "never return results from these sites".
Thankyou...
Surely that should read "KDE does have plenty of Konnections"
Or am I missing something ?
I totally agree.
Personally I'd like to see all internet advertising campaigns fail - utterly and completely. That way the people who treat the internet as digital TV can go and work in digital TV leaving the rest of us to get on with it.
And on a related note then in England you can join the Mailing Preference Service http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/mpsr/ which is supposed to stop you getting junk mail in the post.
However the Post Office seem to think that this doesn't apply to them and they still hand deliver various items of crud mail to you. So after politely asking them to stop and being told they wouldn't I now take all their junk mail and put it straight back in the nearest post office box.
Bah.
Hmmm...
:)
;)
Well this is not intended to be a troll but no doubt will get modded as one
But why the hell don't all the multitude "file open dialog" designers on Linux just get their shit together and see how the Windows common dialogue does it ?
Honestly the default file open dialogue in 90% of Windows applications is so much better to use than the multitude of different Linux equivalents (A notable exception is the Office suite which has it's own, uterrly shite, clunky and useless file open dialogue)
In my 'umble opinion the only way the Windows common dialogue could be improved is to add *NIX style tab completion for filenames and maybe give the user the option to preview files (with this option being rememberred between uses of the dialog. ALthough personally I'd never use I know some people like to see image previews etc.)
Sorry but it's now 2005 and Gnome is STILL farting about trying to get a decent file open dialog. It's no wonder that Microsoft, despite all their myriad, well publicised faults, remains king of the desktop.
And whilst I'm on... A top hint from me to the Gnome designers. If your application allows users to select multiple files (i.e. desktop wallpaper) let the user select more than one file at a time from the bloody dialog. There is absolutely nothing more irritating than having to make multiple bloody mouse clicks to add a file to a list then having to repeat the process for every single file you want to add to the list. This is click and drool computing a la WIndows 95 and I want no part of it. Your HIG be damned.
note to mods: If I was really trolling I'd have mentioned Spatial Nautilus by now
There already is an idiot proof PC... it's called the TV. And yes I am being serious.
Granted I'm not suggesting that TV is an actual PC but it provides just about the level of interaction that the average user seems to comprehend from a computing device.
Personally I think that what should really be happening is not that manufacturers start making cruddy underpowered computers but that "the evil doers (tm)" should create a really, really nasty and destructive IE exploit/virus/piece of malware.
That way the totally cluesless users would get their machines completely well and truly borked which would hopefully put them off going back on the internet until Microsoft fix their rotten browser and O/S. And I do believe a catastrophoic virus is the only thing that will cause them to actually do something.
I for one would welcome the increased leisure time that I would have from people not ceaselessly pestering me about their ceaseless spyware/adware infections.
The problem is not the computer, it's not the internet, it's not even the viruses. It's Windows and it's hopeless security model.