Comments on: Viruses keep on growing

The volume of worms and viruses is increasing, but the rate of successful attacks has dropped, according to Symantec.

[Prndll]

ok...well...

I read that AOL now has a "service" compatible with its' aim software that makes use of bots to make people think that they are actually talking to a live person. With AOL getting into companies that put out and use spyware/adware. Why is this not taken into consideration?

What I'm seeing is a double standard. If an individual does something that has an impact (anything), then it's bad or illegal. If a company does that samething, then it becomes perfectly acceptable and even desired. If Microsoft, AOL, the RIAA, Hollywood, etc. wants into john doe's computer it's something that john doe needs to do. If a programmer in Germany want in, it's labeled "hacking" and gets that programmer arrested. Why is this? What makes Microsoft trustworthy and that programmer not? I personally don't know either one. Why should I not have the oppinion that "NO ONE" is trustworthy? Perhaps because Microsoft created Windows so they know all about it and if you can't trust MS then life isn't worth living? LOL, bla...bla...

I trust me. I trust Microsoft less than most hackers and I trust AOL even less. I can't trust the RIAA as they are more likely to sue me for some bs reason that is based on their continued control over me. I had an instructor once describe the internet as "The worlds largest trash can". Anyone can put anything they want online. The wiser person learns how to distinguish the differance between all the bs and the truth. I'm not suggesting that I'm better than anyone else (far from it). I'm suggesting that anyone that spends any time online should take the initiative to learn something about what makes all this possible. As you learn, you should be better able to deal with all the bad things in a better way. The idea is to prevent the need to call the "help line" or pay someone to fix a problem.

It might seem as though I'm on a soap box here. If so, I'm sorry. I just have a passion for this technology and electronics in general. I'm starting to feel like the very thing that I love so much is being ripped out from under me.

[Clues]

Windows is UNFIXABLE

There is only one operating system that has never been
breached, has NO viruses and it does everything better than
Microsoft. In fact it leads the industry innovating everything,
both hardware and software and is what Microsoft imitates badly
five to ten years late.

Wake up Windows not only will never be fixed, it CAN'T be fixed!
Get a Mac.
You'll never go back!