Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> __/ [ cc ] on Sunday 05 November 2006 18:53 \__
>
> >
> > Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> >> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Sunday 05 November 2006 04:53 \__
> >>
> >> > begin oe_protect.scr
> >> > Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> >> >> Goldman Sachs software analyst Sherlund leaving
> >> >>
> >> >> ,----[ Quote ]
> >> >>| Sherlund started covering Microsoft in 1986, the year it went public,
> >> >>| and became well known on Wall Street for tracking its growth from
> >> >>| start-up to 800-pound gorilla of software.
> >> >>|
> >> >>| [...]
> >> >>|
> >> >>| The slew of companies competing with Microsoft has of course grown
> >> >>| over the years, and now includes Yahoo, Oracle,IBM and Novell.
> >> >>|
> >> >>| Linux to work with Windows
> >> >> `----
> >> >>
> >> >> http://biz.yahoo.com/cnnm/061104/110406_goldman_sherlund.html?.v=1
> >> >>
> >> >> Perhaps Sherlund too, much like Allchin and Gates, can sense the
> >> >> beginning of the end, so he decides to depart at the heights, just
> >> >> before the demoralising decline.
> >> >
> >> > I think that everyone can see that it's all over.
> >>
> >> Hey, Mark, watch that shareholder (and former Microsoft employee) getting
> >> all sweaty. Maybe it's time to return him to that sack (killfile). This
> >> way I won't hear him yelling again...
> >>
> >> Also notice that he only ever squeaks when people talk about money and
> >> stocks. Greedy man with a particular money-driven mission down in
> >> c.o.l.a...
> >>
> >> Granted, he's lucky that Microsoft has been pumping money into the stock
> >> to artificially stabilise its worth. Only in America (and selectively
> >> elsewhere) can this game of gambling and pretence endure. For what it's
> >> worth, my family had investments too and it can attest to how corrupt and
> >> ridiculous the market is. At the moment, even Windows zombies are used to
> >> manipulate the market.
> >
> > First, a company buying back shares is nothing new, so I don't know why
> > you're getting all upset of MS doing this. 2nd, how are Windows zombies
> > being used to manipulate the market? Please enlighten me.
>
> Let's let studies do the talk. Loose arguments may seem subjective and
> opinionated.
>
> Spammers manipulate stock markets
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | The researchers say that approximately 730 million spam e-mails are
> | sent every week, 15% of which tout stocks. Other estimates of spam
> | volumes are far higher.
> `----
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5284618.stm
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Four-fifths of spam now emanates from computers
> | contaminated with Trojan horse infections,
> | according to a study by network management
> | firm Sandvine out this week. Trojans and worms
> | with backdoor components such as Migmaf and
> | SoBig have turned infected Windows PCs into
> | drones in vast networks of compromised zombie PCs.
> `----
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/04/trojan_spam_study/
>
>
> Over 90% of email is spam, says Spamhaus founder
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | "If we were to turn our service off one
> | day then the spam levels on the internet
> | would literally bring the internet email
> | system down," he said.
> `----
>
> http://legalit.itproportal.com/?p=299
>
>
> More than 95% of e-mail is 'junk'
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | More than 95% of e-mail is junk, be it spam, error messages or
> | viruses, report mail monitoring firms.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | Further work has shown that most of this junk mail is originating
> | on hijacked home computers.
> |
> | E-mail security firm Return Path said 99% of the computers it monitors
> | that send mail have been taken over by spammers or virus writers.
> `----
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5219554.stm
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Nearly all of the Internet-connected computers that send e-mail
> | are controlled by spammers, according to companies that track
> | e-mail reputations.
> `----
I get what you mean now. Your post made it sound like MS was using
windows zombies to manipulate the market in *their* favor though. I
guess I misunderstood. While the security faults are MS related, what
is done with them can hardly be contributed to MS(at least fully).
|
|
