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5 posts • joined Monday 24th May 2010 12:03 GMT

Polhotpot
Trollface

wow

People still use Microsoft software?

Polhotpot
Childcatcher

To all commenters on this thread

If you feel this law needs scrapping (like I do), please take a few minutes to write to your mp at faxyourmp.com.

Labour passed this, at the height of their fervour for removing our civil liberties.

The coalition has shown some will so far to reverse Labour's fascist state with the scrapping of ID cards. Perhaps if we put a little more pressure on them, they'll be encouraged to stand up to the US bullies.

Polhotpot
WTF?

Back to front

“Striker does't seem like a bad guy in our book, but a silently installing espionage suite should be detected by a security suite,”

Isn't the job of a security suite to detect bad stuff, whether or not the bad stuff wants detecting?

Or are F-Secure just complaining because they haven't figured out how to detect it yet?

Polhotpot
Thumb Up

Good for them

Honouring the agreement, when most others have tried to wheedle out of it.

That's one of the reasons Zappos are doing well, whilst Dixons are dying on their asses.

Polhotpot
Pirate

What a con

You'd think that the malware-mongers would at least have the decent to show you the promised video after they've filled your machine up with crap.