Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Aha! Look at the image on the left.
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> Spam surge drives net crime spree
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> | The tussle between computer security companies trying to protect your PC
> | and the bad guys that try to compromise it is often characterised as an
> | arms race.
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> | [...]
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> | Windows is the favourite target of malicious hackers
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> | [...]
> |
> | "92.6% of all e-mail messages are spam," said Dan Druker, spokesman for
> | Postini. "That's the highest it's ever been."
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> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6198113.stm
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> 86 billion SPAM a day and still rising. The vast majority of SPAM comes
> from Windows zombies and, judging by recent news, Vista will change
> nothing (exploits published before Vista is even released).
Its clear action needs to be taken, my suggestion would be to ban windows
machines from the net. This may sound crass but it would focus M$ into
producing a secure OS, the simplest method would be tear up the windows
blue print, and adopt a linux kernel to build its OS on.
Jem..
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