[Gllug] Re: OT'ish: BBC News Coverage and Sobig Virus

[Stig Brautaset]

On Aug 29 2003, Per wrote:
> Much better:
> 
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3190799.stm
> 
> The W-word is all over the place:
> 
>   "... infecting hundreds of thousands of Windows computers ..."
> 
>   "... a flaw in Microsoft Windows software which had been known about
>   since mid-July"
> 
>   "... a bug in the way that many versions of Microsoft Windows handled ..."
> 
> Even a highlighted list of "Affected Systems", saying "Microsoft Windows"
> five times over.-)

Did anyone spot the article in the Metro saying that MS claimed PC's
need to be redesigned to stop viruses like Sobig.F? If I put my
excessive-paranoia hat on, I can just about believe that MS produces
these viruses/worms themselves, to trick users into buying this new
"enhanced security platform" (formerly?) known as palladium...


Stig

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