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With the Sobig.F worm on the wane and its successor presumed to be waiting in the wings, fingers are pointing angrily at Redmond.
"People sometimes ask me why I loathe and detest Microsoft with such a visceral passion," wrote packet-radio pioneer and security expert Phil Karn on his Web site. "A major reason is the never-ending stream of viruses and worms infesting [Microsoft's] abysmally insecure software."
For users of Linux and Mac OS X, the recent outbreak was a bittersweet validation. These systems were immune to the worm but -- because we are all e-mail users -- not to its effects...............
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