At 12:43 PM 17/07/2005, Robert Turnbull wrote:
Mr. Tucker, an Internet industry executive who holds a Ph.D. in computer
science, decided that rather than take the time to remove the offending
software, he would spend $400 on a new machine.
He's a moron. It would take a couple of hours to clean this up. Heck,
even backing up data and reinstalling Windows wouldn't take any real time
compared to getting a new machine. It'll take the same amount of time to
install, configure and transfer data to a new machine as it would to the
old one, so the only extra time is the Windows install. What's that? An
hour? So his time is worth more than $400 an hour? I doubt it.
If he lived near me, I could have cleaned it up, most likely, for $32.
I'm guessing he wanted a new computer and is using spyware as an excuse to
get it.
And next week, when he's infected the new computer, is he going to throw
that one out too?
T
