On-ramp to superhighway
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| A third of the system's 15,000 computers run Windows 95 or
| Windows 98 operating systems, which cause viruses to spread
| among the newer computers, he said.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16800517/
See story below.
Related:
Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net
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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
| the BBC reports. "Despite all that, the net is still working,
| which is pretty amazing. It's pretty resilient," he said.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
They are confiscating my computers
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| The problem here is that the new virus software does not run on
| Windows 98, and therefore these machines will be out of sync
| with the district, and therefore not compliant with district
| policy.
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http://opensource.christophercraft.com/?p=73
He used Linux, but the county didn't allow this, so he was forced to go back
to Windows. The attention he received from Groklaw got him in trouble with
the school.
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List of candidate Microsoft astroturfers (directly or indirectly paid by
Microsoft to post in this newsgroup):
flatfish+++
Damian O'Leary (AKA Hadron Quark)
Erik Funkenbusch
Larry Qualig (former Microsoft employee)
Scott Nudds (AKA Vistaking)
Nedd Ludd
Tim Smith
OK
DFS
Terry
Ana Thema
Take everything posted by the individuals above with a barrel of salt.
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