Windows PCs face ‘huge’ virus threat

[ibook30]

I just heard - microsoft is claiming the virus is actually pirated software, and everyone who gets it must pay them $499 for the license. Apparantly the software assists users in moving to a better platform.

 

[shyataroo]

and just think anyone who is stupid enough to buy a Dell XPS 600 "Renegade" Edition will get all butt hurt cause an image executed a command to spin the hard drive up faster than what is safe and it melted. 2GB of VRAM or not its still a pille of junk after that. (not to mention its a dell... and we all know how bad dell is)

 

[adk]

I really need to raise a few million dollars and make anti-microsoft commercials.

Have you ever seen the episode of The Simpsons where bill gates "buys out" Homer's computer company? That would be your head!

 

[Stormchild69]

I think the easiest and safest solution is to:

1. Unplug the PC
2. Stick it in the corner


Just my 2 cents.

I use PCs all the time but your solution works. That Windows OS suffers so much so just don't use it. As a programmer I see that they have just totally stuffed it. A case of 'Shuting the gate after the horse has bolted'. I hope Mac OSX is secure as now it is growing in popularity, with more and more people using Macs, hackers may start to look for faults in OSX Unix. Hope not. Fingers crossed.

 

[Mechcozmo]

I use PCs all the time but your solution works. That Windows OS suffers so much so just don't use it. As a programmer I see that they have just totally stuffed it. A case of 'Shuting the gate after the horse has bolted'. I hope Mac OSX is secure as now it is growing in popularity, with more and more people using Macs, hackers may start to look for faults in OSX Unix. Hope not. Fingers crossed.

They HAVE been. Synaptec (spelling?) offered something like $50,000 to anyone to write the first OS X virus. It hasn't been claimed.