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[Teron]

Unsettling news, if true

Windows: Hi are you a friendly worm?
Worm: Yes, honest.
Windows: Let me see your validation.
Worm: Here you go.
Windows: Looks good you may run along.
Worm: Cool...I mean thank you.
.....
Windows: Please restart to allow the worm full control. :stickattack3:

[Zeke]

oh teh noes, it's like the story of I am Legend but for computers D:

[Encrypted]

This could potentially turn bad

[Wizard]

Potentially? Best Understatement I have heard in a long time.

[Encrypted]

Yes, when i said it could "potentially" it has a lot of potential to go wrong .

[Prophet of the Pimps]

Of all the things in the world, this is the best they could come up with. WTF MS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!^49

[Dutchygamer]

All I can say is Epic Failure

[Teron]

If we cannot solve it, make it a feature

[Warbz]

So they are almost forcing everyone to download and install every update/patch they release? o_0

[AllStarZ]

I feel mixed on this idea.

[Wizard]

For me this has soo many abuse options that it doesn't bear thinking about. Friendly or no a worm is a worm and is unwelcome. I am very unhappy about someone spreading this sort of thing between rigs without specific consent. How long before so retard decides to embed something in a friendly worm making it the ultimate trojan horse. Goes on a patch you up then rape you spree.

[Overdose]

Microsoft deserves a swift kick in the nuts. I hope my country's ban of Microsoft products comes through.

[Foxhound]

Wait, Microsoft is banned in Brazil?

[Overdose]

Not yet.

Edit: But the country is already preparing, linux has taken over the schools, Apple shops are starting to open up everywhere and the government offices no longer use Windows for 'simple tasks' since 2007. My country is capitalist but not enough to allow a company to sell a faulty product for 100 dolars that only requires cents to manufacture. Windows software is basically money printers. I wish more of the world would see that giving too much power to a corporation is a bad thing.

Edited by Overdose, 21 February 2008 - 13:28.

[Dutchygamer]

I think it's quite stupid to ban Windows from any country. I think I know someone who really won't be happy about that...

[Overdose]

What is stupid is to keep purchasing Microsoft products after decades of what they do. If they had a least some competition, they would be singing a different tune I'm sure.

[Prophet of the Pimps]

Dutchygamer, on 21 Feb 2008, 20:13, said:

I think it's quite stupid to ban Windows from any country. I think I know someone who really won't be happy about that...

Its not stupid when it comes to Government and Education. In fact i would advocate banning or restricting closed source application and format in this area because of the wider repercussion they have. Looking the way the USA government behaves i am afraid that Windows or OSX or other proprietary closed source OS might have back doors that might give access to sensitive data. There is also a question of compatibility with proprietary file formats. The whole world is filled with mp3's, Doc, ppt, xls, pdf etc that are for the most case proprietary and copyright laws can be used to stifle competition and hinder inter operability. While closed system are good for personal or even corporate and business use, in fact it might even be more beneficial but in the Public arena it should be avoided at all cost.

[Dutchygamer]

Ok ok, I see my vision is wrong Still, that would be the first country to ban Windows IIRC...

[Overdose]

200m less PCs for Microsoft to profit from. That's not including business and organizations which own many offices and workplaces with dozens of pcs each. This is just the kick in the nuts MS needs.

[CodeCat]

PotP, PDF isn't a proprietary format. It is an open standard and is on its way towards becoming an ISO standard as well.

But yes, I strongly agree that public services should not be using proprietary software. While some may argue that free software is less safe, it's actually the opposite. The source code of free software is available to anyone using the program. If you would use closed source programs, which you actually know nothing about, rather than a program whose specifications are open for everyone to see, simply because you 'trust' a big company more, then you really need to get your head checked.

[Prophet of the Pimps]

PDF started as proprietary. You know there is a reason why MS doesn't support it it in MS office. Thats cause Adobe refused permission (A decision that they have been regretting ever since). Now Adobe has woken up and has proposed PDF to be considered as an ISO format.

[Teron]

So, everyone gets forced to upgrade to IE7... :-/

[CoLT]

I take one look at Windows AntiSpyware's results and I know I don't want to trust Windows.

[Prophet of the Pimps]

Teron, on 23 Feb 2008, 6:33, said:

So, everyone gets forced to upgrade to IE7... :-/

I know IE sucks even IE7 but for the love of god why would anyone still stick with IE6? It sucks a 1000 times more.

[Dauth]

TPAM makes a very good point, and if you can be bothered to use hijackthis to get rid of duplicate instructions telling the homepage to be 3 places and the search engine to be MSN/google/a pygmy monkey IE7 will load relativly fast.