04.27.09
Virus Outbreak
No, I’m not referring to the recent news of Swine Flu from Mexico that may (or may not) have reached the New York area. I’m talking about PC virii, well the Conficker virus to be specific.
So, I know that at least a few of my PC using friends have recently contracted the Conficker virus because a very private email address, that has never been posted anywhere, is now receiving tons of spam daily.
I’d like to personally thank all those people for not having working anti-virus software and also for buying a PC when they have no idea how to harden it to keep it safe from these types of attacks. I now have to spend my time changing this email address and alerting everyone who had it about the change to stop receiving the spam.
Over the years I have used just about every system available: DOS, AppleDOS, ProDOS, UNIX, Classic Mac OS, Windows, OS X, Linux, et al. In this day and age there is no good reason to buy a PC. Microsoft is still building Windows around a DOS core. Yes, that’s state-of-the-art technology for 1982! I don’t care how much Microsoft has spend marketing “the latest & greatest”. It is still based on technology that is coming up on 30 years old, with 30 year old security holes that never envisioned an always online world. It’s archaic attitude toward privacy & security is laughable or, I should say, would be laughable if so many people weren’t actively using it an exposing the rest of us to these gargantuan security flaws.
Here’s a hint – if you don’t know how to manually edit the registry, don’t know which services to disable (or set to manual) and have never heard of msconfig – buy a Mac. You know, everyone should just buy a Mac anyway. If you can’t afford a new system right now – wipe your hard drive and install Ubuntu.
