[Wolves] Bad Beeb

Alan Pope alan at popey.com
Tue Oct 27 17:54:14 UTC 2009


2009/10/27 Claire <lug at sitesearcher.co.uk>:
> There is an article on the BBC website regarding the infection of
> Windows computers from bad ads fraudulently displayed on Gizmodo.
>
> Am I alone in thinking it reads very badly from a Linux perspective?
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8328399.stm
>
>

It's badly worded sure, but it looks to me that they're saying they
didn't notice the viruses/malware _because_ they use linux. If they'd
been running Windows they'd in all likelyhood have noticed it before
because they'd be infected.

Cheers,
Al.



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