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[rwmidl.livejournal.com]

How quickly people forget about the Blaster and the havoc it caused. I was installing a new version of NAV 8.1 on a client pc and for some reason the installer package messed up office (I think there were some other issues too - I found the installation point in the registry pointing to a file that no longer existed). Anyway, while fixing the problem the user asked me "why do you have to keep installing these patches. My pc works fine".

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[nix.livejournal.com]

just a couple of weeks ago I had to replace my hard drive.. and ofcourse had my ethernet cable plugged in..

The first thing that happened after I booted up on the new drive was the computer telling me it was gonna shut down in so many seconds..

*sigh*
I thought, 'oh my gawd. I removed this thing and the welchia 20 times today.. and I'm dumb enough to go home and get it myself.'

[methedras.livejournal.com]

I love all the people who buy a new PC, which of course isn't updated in any way shape or form, get online.. then bang.. they got blaster.

It's so entertaining.

[rwmidl.livejournal.com]

There was something I read online recently where the biggest virus threat out there isn't companies but home users pc's who don't install patches/virus defs and the pc becomes infected and is a zombie..

[hoffman-log.livejournal.com]

makes sense...

I know that's what I would target...

_MaH