__/ [wontak] on Saturday 11 February 2006 11:07 \__
> http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/1797
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> I feel very sad :)
"On a recent Sunday morning when Lew Tucker's Dell desktop computer
was overrun by spyware and adware - stealth software that delivers
intrusive advertising messages and even gathers data from the user's
machine - he did not simply get rid of the offending programs. He
threw out the whole computer."
A popular article once claimed this to be a more economically-rational
solution to embrace. Legal disposal of a machine, however, is rather
expensive. I hope Lew handed his the machine to somebody else, even to lodge
in a server room where its electricity consumption makes the capacity
worthwhile. What I fail to grasp is people's assumption that a new machine
(even one that runs newer virusions of Windows), will provide protection
against that same evil which started the mess.
If Lew holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science as the article suggests, he must
have been raised in the wrong college. Here in our Division, all drop-outs
whom I know are Windows-only users. Mind you, we are relatively
Linux-oriented.
Roy
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