On Sep 21, 1:12*pm, John Smith wrote:
On 9/20/2011 9:43 PM, DEFCON 88 wrote:





On Sep 20, 11:35 am, *wrote:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/201...my-250956.html

A mammoth army of infected computers is being assembled, but it's unclear
yet what purpose they will be put to.

Wave after wave of malicious email attachments has been sent out since
August, and with average success rates for such mailings, millions of
machines could be compromised, says Internet security firm Commtouch.

Once infected, the computers can be loaded with additional malware that
can perform a range of activities, including spamming, participating in
DDoS attacks, stealing bank credentials and compromising email and social-
network accounts, according to an upcoming Commtouch blog post.

As a big iron (IBM mainframe) programmer, I'm always amazed at how the
Windows op sys is so open to viruses and malware. It would be funny if
it wasn't so serious.

VIRUS ............. "Knock knock".

WINDOWS ..... "Who's there?"

VIRUS ............. "You".

WINDOWS ..... "OK, come in."

It isn't any more susceptible than any other OS or hardware platform.
But, ignorance may make it seem that way.

Truth is, anyone owning a PC is GOD over the machine, there are no
limits on you, now and then, when you can do ESPECIALLY STUPID things,
windows will give you are warning or two ... most don't understand these
warnings, don't care about the warnings, don't even read the warnings
... they are of the mindset "everyone and every thing is here to take
care of me and keep me out of trouble."

Truth is, if you are a computer moron, you should either own a MAC or
have a system administrator on a main frame keeping you from GOD access
to the machine and being able to screw it up.

PC is an open system, it is created for educated people who understand
computers ... the ego of most force them to claim they are ... obviously
they are not ...


Don't vorry Komrad. The Liberal Fascist Jackass Party will take care
of dis.
Zey are vorking on a permitting/licensing program to own and operate
any computing device. Including a iPhone and iPad.