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January 03, 2006
All the more reason to return to Apple!

How does Microsoft avoid class action lawsuits?

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - The new year is off to a rocky start at Microsoft, where security experts are scrambling to confront a potentially massive virus threat to Windows PCs.

According to a report Tuesday in the Financial Times, the latest vulnerability involves a flaw which allows hackers to infect computers using programs inserted into image files. The threat was discovered last week. But it mushroomed over the weekend, when a group of hackers published the source code they used to exploit the flaw.

What makes this threat particularly vicious, according to the Times, is that unwitting victims can infect their computers simply by viewing a web page, e-mail, or instant message that includes a contaminated image. That differs from most virus attacks, which require a user to actually download an infected file.

I mean really?
Microsoft Windows is the most dangerous operating system in the history of computing. I stopped using Internet Explorer two years ago as a result of exploits available in the program. I am still infuriated when I find a site that will only open with Explorer. This threat is absolutely terrifying. Imagine the idea of simply viewing a rogue web page, and having your system infected.

Posted by David A at January 3, 2006 10:17 AM
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Microsoft has been screwing people for years now, when are the people going to wise up and stop allowing themselves to be fooled by this malicious company?

Look at their history folks, it's ripe with deceipt, lies and faulty products.

Over and over they have purposefully sold the windows OS knowing it was faulty, bug ridden and bloated, but they were allowed to keep selling it knowing it was garbage.
You KNOW someone in Redmond has a few politicians in their pocket when they can get away with a monopoly, strangle new operating systems and still turn a profit, not to mention violation of trade laws we have in place.
The SEC must turn a blind eye towards Redmond, they must if this corrupt corporation never gets fined more than a wrist slap and goes about its merry way just as it always had been doing, even after the so-called 'break-up'. We all know how
that faired in the business world. Too bad there aren't enough willing people to stand up and file class action suits by the millions, all across the country over the problems Microsoft has caused people.
Too bad Windows, in whatever veil it's under, is still nothing more than a bloated DOS program, if not, please tell me WHY there is a link to the COMMAND PROMPT? This is strictly a DOS command, and if windows is so great, WHY does it require a dos prompt in the first place?

I don't see this command in Unix, Linux or OS2, so how can windows be 'better' every year when the basic OS is nothing more than glitzed DOS offerings to begin with?
That would explain why the mouse hangs up during operation cycles, why you have to restart the machine for new programs to work, and why so many things get hosed before it loads and works, not to mention the ever popular B.S.O.D(Blue Screen of Death) SO prevalent with 98 and earlier versions of Winbloat.

Too much bundling of everything you don't need or want, and never enough of what you do, like a good security toolkit, enhanced user activated locks, updated driver selection as well as more user control over what can be deleted, hidden, or even ignored.
I'm tired of seeing 'ACCESS DENIED' when I try to delete a fragment of a program that the uninstaller didn't remove, and many times, there are fragments all over windows that point to these fragments, but when I attempt to delete them, windows tells me 'ACCESS DENIED'.
No more, that is NOT control, that is remote control and I don't want it!

Bundled EULAS are also null and void as they are not contracts, and thus, not legal, nor binding.
No contract is binding without full disclosure BEFORE you sign it, and your signature is required to make it binding, simply clicking 'I AGREE' does NOT bind you to the agreement as you paid for it BEFORE you were allowed to read the agreement, this by itself makes it UNENFORCEABLE and ILLEGAL.

That's MY views on that subject.
You place a price tag on it, I buy it, it's MINE, not a 'license' to use only.
I bought a program that hides license agreements from me after I paid for it, voids those licenses, and I IGNORE them all the time.

Contracts that are binding amd legal, have SIGNATURES.
An 'agreement' is NOT a contract and is not enforceable as a contract as no signatures are attatched to signify there was an offer to perform, or products/services rendered that meet the performance clause in many contracts, the license agreements in windows does not and provides for none of these.

Posted by: Ernest at January 3, 2006 04:00 PM

Damn Ernest, you should be blogging. That was a great comment!

Posted by: David Anderson at January 3, 2006 06:22 PM

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