[Cicero]

Humm. I'm running Win98SE on this office computer, but I guess I'll have to visit Windows Update when I get home. It wasn't there this morning.

Updating once a month was a crazy idea. I hope MS will reconsider it. The updates should be posted if, as, and when they are ready. If SysAdmins want to update once a month, let them. But the rest of us would rather not have such an artificial constraint imposed on us, I would imagine.

[goldstategop]

I've downloaded and installed the lastest patches to be on the safe side. However, I haven't been compromised by a virus or trojan horse cause I practice safe computing and have anti-virus and firewall software installed on my PC.

[gdyniawitawa]

Please find a link attach to this thread. You will be able to find more information dealing with this virus.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=MyDoom+worm&btnG=Google+Search

[mercy]

I don't let my PC anywhere near the web anymore. I routed my previous email account to my .mac account. I ONLY surf through my mac. No viruses.

[Astronaut]

"Flagship Windows operating system." What a joke. Its one leaky, rusty, slow, ugly flagship! Macintosh rules.

[Truth666]

All explained here a long time ago
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1017846/posts#9

[B Knotts]

LindowsOS

[AIC]

It will be hard for me to ever trust Microsoft again after downloading a virus fix and got a back door virus from their site. I will and have an automatic virus program that updates automatically since that time and will not go near any Microsoft site for anything. I'll buy their programs but I will not visit their site and download anything from them.

[NCjim]

This is what happens when there is no competition. Microsoft was allowed to use questionable tactics to gain monopoly status and we wonder why their quality is non-existant?

[pax_et_bonum]

ping

[HairOfTheDog]

Oh - enough with the hatchet job and hyper language. MS issues "Critical" updates as they need to and have them ready. I am notified of them and I download it. 30 seconds. This is not new, complicated or unexpected.

[ryanjb2]

I have been using PC's since I was in elementary school, and I have never had a virus. On top of that, Windows XP has been an excellent operating system in almost all regards. I have never been hacked, or compromised in any way.

The vast majority of Windows users are non-technical. Nearly everyone who uses Linux or some Unix variant is extremely technical. Its not surprising that people who run those operating systems take good care of their systems and do simple things to protect themselves.

If you somehow suddenly shifted all current Windows users onto Linux, the problems would follow them onto the new platform. Whoever has the dominate market share is going to experience most of the problems.

[Freedom4US]

Does this mean I shouldn't upgrade from Win 3.1??

[scab4faa]

http://www-edlab.cs.umass.edu/~ahelblin/misc/mac.html


Why not to buy a mac.. Great video