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Re: Staying safe without anti-virus

  • Subject: Re: Staying safe without anti-virus
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 08:52:11 +0000
  • In-reply-to: <1781798.fPjZLcoxR6@schestowitz.com>
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Slated.org
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> __/ [ Robert Parsonage ] on Sunday 11 March 2007 03:56 \__
> 
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6431853.stm
>>
>> Doesn't this say it all? The hassle businesses have to go through
>> because they run, insecure by design, SW from Microsoft!
> 
> i love the photos.
> 
> First photo: a 1 pound cheapo mouse and keyboard.

With the caption "Visrting(sic) the wrong website can have serious
implications"

One wonders what "Visrting" is. Is that something that happens when IE7
on Vista hits a page? "You've been Visrted".

> Second photo: a very rudimentary GUI (worse than IceWM) showing you that
> microsoft.com is at the centre of the universe.

Struth! Is that DooFuS' Desktop? Must be, judging from the MS tech.
support Emails. I hear he might be moving up to 16 colours soon, and
*gasp* a desktop wallpaper.

> Third photo: Bill Gates looking worried, with the caption "Virus writers are
> porting their programs to Vista".

Must be an old photo. Uncle Billy doesn't need to worry about anything,
now that he's run away, dumped his stock, and found a new scam to run.

-- 
K.
http://slated.org - Slated, Rated & Blogged

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