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[whipped]

Anyone else annoyed by the stupid amount of attention this virus is getting from the Media. Just because it's payload DDOS a MS site, if it had DDOSed a cancer research site we would have never heard of it!!

 

[GDW]

I think its getting more attention because small businesses and home owners have been hit partcularly badly with it. Ive fixed five PCs which had it all either belonging to family members or friends.

Ive never known anything as widespread as this, (well certainly within the circles I mingle).

 

[pcg79]

Theres a new variant that fixes the problem. Nozomi or something/

 

[old.tRoG]

Hehe, my grandmother is scared to switch on her laptop, for fear of catching 'the deadly virus that the super duper computer expert on the bbc morning talk show said will kill her computer and murder all her family!!!11'.

I tried to explain to her, but...

Oh well.

 

[Tom]

Nice to see that MS are going to ship their products with security defaults activated, rather than off.

To be perfectly honest, retailers should take more responsibility in making sure people are aware of virus protection when they buy their computers.

 

[Teh Krypt]

Whys the mircosoft site gone to Linux?

 

[PR.]

Originally posted by Tom.
Nice to see that MS are going to ship their products with security defaults activated, rather than off.

To be perfectly honest, retailers should take more responsibility in making sure people are aware of virus protection when they buy their computers.

Hmm strange, when ever I have clean installed XP Pro the firewalls have always been on by default, even on LAN connections

 

[Tom]

I think the emphasis is more on domestic software

 

[Meatballs]

Originally posted by PR.
Hmm strange, when ever I have clean installed XP Pro the firewalls have always been on by default, even on LAN connections

that the home version? I dont think its activated on my pro version automatically

 

[Will]

Originally posted by Teh Krypt
Whys the mircosoft site gone to Linux?

It hasn't, the OS that is showing up is their webcache, which does run on Linux...how do you think they managed to get IIS to run on it?

[edit] Must check for typos before hitting reply

 

[Meatballs]

Wine ;\

 

[kanonfodda]

For some clarity

info on MS website

 

[Wij]

Originally posted by Meatballs
Wine ;\

Port.

 

[Sar]

Originally posted by GDW
I think its getting more attention because small businesses and home owners have been hit partcularly badly with it. Ive fixed five PCs which had it all either belonging to family members or friends.

Ive never known anything as widespread as this, (well certainly within the circles I mingle).

Ditto.

Both my PCs were hit with it - the main PC within 10 mins of getting it running again after it was out of commission due to a blown PSU for just over 2 months.

 

[]SK[]

Ive had a number of customers come to me to reconfigure their home PC as they've been told by PC World to reinstall Windows... GG

 

[Testin da Cable]

all my mates had it. not me though. I wonder why?

 

[Wij]

You don't have a proper comput4r !

 

[Testin da Cable]

perhaps. it's over three months old now...I really have to upgrade :/

 

[Wij]

*cry*

 

[Will]

You must resist...I've managed to keep to my "no upgrades in 2003" pledge so far, so must you.

 

[Wij]

*blub*

 

[Testin da Cable]

I tried!!1 then I bought a new computer. then I bought an alphaserver. now I want to get a peefour2.4ghz, some watercooling, dark glasses and see how far I can overclock it before the powerflux causes it to become a hypermass.

 

[Wij]

*commit suicide*

 

[Testin da Cable]

*se><0r wij's corpse*



no, seriously!

 

[Wij]

*rot morosely*

 

[Testin da Cable]

you still have that 1800+ ? see, if you weren't married then you'd have a big phat p4 like mighty me

 

[Wij]

*putrify in utter despair*

 

[Testin da Cable]

*poke*

*mon*

 

[Ch3tan]

*passes current over tdc's might*

 

[Testin da Cable]

you're trying to turn me on aren't you?