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January 03, 2006

As a Public Service

...I thought I should pass this along, in case you hadn't seen it.

Computer security experts were grappling with the threat of a new weakness in Microsoft's Windows operating system that could put hundreds of millions of PCs at risk of infection by spyware or viruses.

..."The potential [security threat] is huge," said Mikko Hyppönen, chief research officer at F-Secure, an antivirus company. "It's probably bigger than for any other vulnerability we've seen. Any version of Windows is vulnerable right now."


That hacking noise you hear in the background is "Bingley the smug bastard"'s iMAC induced gloating.

Posted by tree hugging sister at January 3, 2006 02:05 PM

Comments

More of a giggly-chortle-snort, if you must know.

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at January 3, 2006 02:26 PM

For the life of me, I don't know why anyone used windoze.

Posted by: Mike Rentner at January 3, 2006 04:32 PM

Some of us have lives ruled by our children, Mike. You'll get there one day...

Posted by: tree hugging sister at January 4, 2006 09:16 AM

I trained my child properly.

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at January 4, 2006 10:53 AM