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- inactive, on 09/19/2009, -0/+36What a good idea. Microsoft's totally in the green here since the actions of those malware makers directly affects their business (how many Macs did people buy because they "don't get viruses?"). And it benefits Microsoft's worldwide customer base by scaring malware makers (and being the selfish jerk that I am, I like it when people do things that benefit me).
I am totally rooting for Microsoft on this one. - AndrewDB, on 09/19/2009, -1/+36.. What do you call Windows 7?
- omgukk, on 09/19/2009, -3/+37Is Bill Gates gonna have to choke a bitch?
- aforsberg, on 09/19/2009, -1/+27Let's take down Antivirus XP 1010.
- mason092, on 09/19/2009, -0/+26Or Zune HD?
- FredFredrickson, on 09/19/2009, -0/+23Xbox 360 (hardware issues notwithstanding), Zune HD, Windows 7, even Bing, to a certain extent... plenty of good stuff there. Isn't it time we get past the Microsoft hate when there are so many more evil companies out there? *glances over at Apple*
- hereticoftruth, on 09/19/2009, -0/+21I don't care who takes out these leeches as long as it is done, and quickly.
- Myztry, on 09/19/2009, -0/+20Searching employee database...
Bill Gates not found.
Suggestion: Steve Ballmer | throws chair
(I wonder if Steve Ballmer ever gets upset about being overlooked. He's not Bill Gates by a long shot but ...) - FKnight, on 09/19/2009, -1/+15NTFS permissions have been the most flexible and powerful in the industry since the advent of Windows NT. As far as fragmentation goes, Vista and Windows 7 keep things defragmented in the background. Two years of heavy use and I still have no disk performance issues -- anecdotal yes, but whatever. NTFS is a good file system and there's no reason for Microsoft to change it.
It isn't a failing of NTFS Permissions when third party (e.g. not Microsoft) application vendors force users to run as Administrator for things as simple as an mp3 player. - draiman, on 09/19/2009, -0/+14About time, As a technician, I see way too many computers come my way with this crap on it. The most common one I see is Personal Antivirus, some have it so bad, it says every website you visit is harmful and you need to buy their crap.
- Toshibi, on 09/19/2009, -0/+14It's even funnier going to one of those websites while running Linux. I chuckle every time it says it's scanning C:\.
- D3PyroGS, on 09/19/2009, -1/+13Before computers existed, there were computer viruses. Gotcha.
- inactive, on 09/19/2009, -1/+13"how many Macs did people buy because they "don't get viruses?"
Based on the market share? No many. - ZephyrNinety, on 09/19/2009, -0/+12Personal Antivirus is always a good laugh, especially when the people try to "run" it. What I love the best is the malware that blocks anti-malware programs from running. Always fun at work!
- FKnight, on 09/19/2009, -0/+9I'm pretty sure Microsoft's legal team has a bit more investigative resources than you or I.
- inactive, on 09/19/2009, -0/+9you know...they probably never even THOUGHT of all those points!
- ZephyrNinety, on 09/19/2009, -1/+9Malware needs to go the ***** away. The only people it's making money for is Norton, Kaspersky, and Geek Squad/Easy Tech. It's just a pain in the ass.
- sierrabravo, on 09/19/2009, -0/+7i hope they sue the ***** out of the criminal slime
- voteme4pope, on 09/19/2009, -0/+6Wonder where malware comes from ...
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..................................., - inactive, on 09/19/2009, -0/+5yeah. they grew to be a $225+ BILLION company by always being incorrect.
- roxgod666, on 09/19/2009, -1/+6@Borstal
*it's - BrokenCircle, on 09/19/2009, -0/+4Microsoft did recently contract DynCorp International for overseas "security"...
- fuzzynyanko, on 09/19/2009, -0/+3Maybe detect where they phone home at, provided that it's not a botnet
- gordigor, on 09/19/2009, -2/+5What?!
- FKnight, on 09/20/2009, -0/+3I agree -- if you're referring to those hard drives that are not designed for reading and writing of data.
HUH? - danielttt, on 09/19/2009, -1/+3Hope they make another fortune and win the nobel prize. just to spite their enemies.
- idontknowpizza, on 09/19/2009, -0/+2There's not much you can do to prevent a user from installing every stupid thing they come across...Microsoft or not.
- JohnnySoftware, on 09/23/2009, -0/+1Virtually all malicious software on MS-Windows is the result of software bugs in MS-Windows and in Microsoft Internet Explorer. Suing an aboveground company once in a great while it not effective. Most of the malware and break-ins are done by underground groups.
Fixing the IE & Windows bugs is the only thing that will make the malware problem go away.
Once that is done, users will have to take more precautions to avoid unwittingly installing trojans on their computers. They will have to set their computers and networks up more securely too.
But the job begins with Microsoft. It always has. If Microsoft does its jobs then most people will not need the antivirus programs they currently use. - zc456, on 09/19/2009, -1/+2This I can agree with.
- krisrm, on 09/19/2009, -1/+2What's wrong with the BIOS? EFI is just annoying, and part of the brilliance of Windows (and Linux) is the vast amount of supported hardware.
- aforsberg, on 09/19/2009, -0/+1Wow. My typo just registered with me. Once again, disregard how retarded I am.
- AgmLauncher, on 09/19/2009, -1/+2Should go beyond suing them. Creating malware should be a capital offense punishable by torture and then death.
- JohnnySoftware, on 09/23/2009, -0/+1Enough that a lot of computer users do not have viruses & worms on their computers.
News flash: antivirus software does not block of even notice ten to twenty-five percent of the malware out there. And Microsoft sits on flaws that people outside the firm know about for as long as 18 months, it has been admitted.
Mac OS X is still waiting to see a single massive virus or worm outbreak. MS-Windows is waiting for one of them that has afflicted it between 2001-present to die down. Neither situation looks like it will be changing anytime soon.
No reports of any virus or worm reaching epidemic proportions yet, despite dire predictions by the Windows-only antivirus makers. A group who may not be the best prognosticators of security issues.
After all, the Sony rootkit malware for MS-Windows went undetected by all of their products and personnel for well over a year and was so bad for so long it not only lead to a financial hit to Sony, Sony sued the company it contracted with to create the malware placed on millions of their CDs. They were apparently embarrassed by what the software did to consumers computers in homes, offices, and military bases. Even Microsoft did not find or report the exploit.
Trojans are much different than a worm or virus. They are basically a program that misrepresents what it does. To varying degrees that can be a serious problem on any operating system. Especially if it is run from an Administrator account.
But Mac OS X visibly tracks where a file was downloaded from and additionally warns the user the first time they attempt to run each particular program downloaded from the Internet. They have been doing this for several years. Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) which went on sale weeks ago adds an additional feature that checks for a couple of known trojans in downloaded programs. So Mac users are afforded a level of protection that MS-Windows users can only envy.
The Macintosh also has a much different security model than MS-Windows. The MS-Windows software industry tends to gloss over the fundamental differences in the software. However, one time, just once, a leader in of one of the largest MS-Windows antivirus software companies said that the reason his company did not make antivirus software for Macs was that Mac OS X did not have enough viruses to make a market.
Mac market share of US computers this year is at eight percent. It is growing. MS-Windows market share is dropping - so is Microsoft's overall revenue, as well as its headcount. Macs browsing the web account for about ten percent of web usage now.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/02/mac-mark ...
Check the facts. Don't spread incorrect rumors. - 5achin, on 09/20/2009, -0/+1"Destructive and Damaging software founded" <-- FAIL
- stuffradio, on 09/19/2009, -1/+2I chuckle every time it says it's scanning C:\ on a Windows computer. I always close those sites right away :)
- ninjaofpatience, on 09/19/2009, -0/+1same place you got that image. 4chan
- voteme4pope, on 09/20/2009, -1/+1vista + patch
- tcheck, on 09/19/2009, -3/+3correctly*
Sorry, had to do it. - cozad4, on 09/20/2009, -1/+1malware pimps? Bitch, please.
- Geilt, on 09/20/2009, -1/+1Go after Malware makers? They generate an entire industry of profitable Anti-Malware software makers...maybe there is a reason behind this...there as so many gimmicks behind so many companies its hard to trust much nowadays.
Spending more time on Anti-Piracy seems to be of a larger concern to MS than software Vulnerability. More profits to be made when there be viruses to fix. It's a shame that MS software has been so hacked, cracked and easily distributed that it became the standard.
And dammit, if only Linux ran games like I want it to. - Myztry, on 09/19/2009, -2/+1Okay. Perhaps not the most stupid idea from Microsoft - but it's certainly up there...
- Wander2000, on 09/20/2009, -2/+1I contacted a higher up at Microsoft a couple of years ago about a web site that would install malware using the Windows name. I never heard back from her (initials are J.E.). This was when I was a Microsoft Partner & beta tester.
If Microsoft were to fix their insecure operating system, this wouldn't happen. Instead they just put a face lift on Vista and call it Windows 7. Sure it's better than Vista (but then again, so is DOS). Of course if they were to fix their operating system, probably half of the programs would no longer work.
About 3 years ago, I moved to a MacPro. I don't have to worry about this nonsense anymore. When are you going to acknowledge this Jes... - cozad4, on 09/20/2009, -2/+1i call it a "oh *****, lets make a new OS to get people to forget Vista".
- ninjaofpatience, on 09/19/2009, -5/+2Microsoft keeps this up I may actually buy my next copy of windows instead of just downloading it.
- mac888, on 09/19/2009, -6/+3they've got the pimps in their crosshairs, but what about the 'hos?
- BrokenCircle, on 09/19/2009, -7/+3Background defragging will eat certain hard drives.
- Subduction, on 09/19/2009, -5/+1"Microsoft you say? Grrrrr!!! Charge!!!"
- DiggerLater, on 09/19/2009, -5/+1I guarantee those people behind these scams have insulated their actual identity so well, no lawyer on earth is ever going to find them, and even if they do, they will likely be in a country with almost no "government". Maybe Microsoft should write a browser that doesn't allow people to hijack with popups and other focus-stealing code snippets.
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