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Re: yet another victim of Microsoft malware ..

____/ [H]omer on Wednesday 03 October 2007 16:22 : \____

> Verily I say unto thee, that jim spake thusly:
> 
>> Right...  What are the odds of a male surfing porn on company time?
> 
> What are the odds of a Windows machine being exploited by Malware?
> 
> What are the odds that a computer forensics specialist doesn't know what
> he's doing?
> 
> 'Farr even retained a computer forensics specialist who concluded: "No
> one had intentionally loaded the list of Web sites on the computer.
> Rather, the list was placed on the respiratory therapists' computer by a
> common and well-known Internet virus that promotes fee-generating
> pornographic sites."'
> 
> Blame the victim - it's easier than pursuing the truth.

A bigger issue here is that Windows has led to loss of trust in computing and
nothing that you ever see in a person's PC can be used as evidence (or /can/
it?). Whenever things go rotten, the suspect will cry "malware!".

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