"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Recieved the following letter from one of my ISPs and the link below from a
>friend, this virus is real and verifiable. Ananova.com even reports it!
>>http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/05/04/iloveyou.01/index.html
I'm really sick and tired of these virus warnings every other month.
A new virus? So what?! I don't care! I use a SurvPC WITHOUT Windows.
It serves all the a*sholes right if they get f*cked in the a*s with a virus.
Why do they use Windows?! Who punishes a private user to buy this or that
software? The own stupidity! According to the hungarian proverb "the stupid
should die". So I don't feel sorry for the idiots that cry and whine now.
It's time to obtain a brain! (And don't forget to switch it on.)
This is the easily computable result if the world allowes one company
to hold the whole PC market of BOTH OS AND APPLICATION SOFTWARE in its
hand.
Part of this problem is - beside other doubtful business practices -
CORRUPCY. Unfortunately, outside of the "inner circle" it is not very known
that MS often pays a "buyer's benefit" to top IT managers or other decision
makers in charge of software purchase. Depending on the volume of purchase
it can be up to 25%. I understand the human weakness, it's not easy to
resist if you have to make a decision about update or system change in
value of let's say 300 megabucks, and somebody whispers the magic words
into your ear:"In case of the right decision we could provide a deduction
of 20% to your company and of course we would appreciate your efforts on a
similar level". Or did you believe that companies or even gov. agencies buy MS
software because of its widely known quality? Of course, some simply
structured people still believe, institutional users would buy software at
the corner, where they do. The difference however, will be paid, in fact,
at the computer shop at the corner, by those braindead private users who now
also whine about "Iloveyou". Who told them to use Outlook?! Pegasusu Mail
costs the same, Lotus' mailprogram is free for private use, Yarn is free
(even for Windows), and there are many others for an affordable price.
It's not easy to defeat a "denial of service" attack. However, defeating a
virus whose aim is getting down computer systems worldwide as many as
possible while destroying their data, should not be a challange for a
normally equipped brain. The name of the pill is DIVERSITY!
Operating systems FREE FOR BUSINESS AND PRIVATE USE:
LINUX, FREEBSD, NETBSD, OPENBSD
FREE FOR PRIVATE USE ONLY:
SCO UNIX, SOLARIS
Office Packages:
STAROFFICE (Free for both business and private use, runs on nearly all Unix
derivates and Windows)
APPLIXWARE (reasonable price, runs on Unix & Linux)
Of course, these are just a couple of examples, the list could be continued
with some other more or less market-ready products.
BTW, in forseeable future I plan to change my internet-online activities
for OBERON. Or has anybody ever heard of a virus against OBERON?
--
Tibor Mocsar
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