Europol shuts down darn RAMNIT botnet Euro cybercrime cops have taken down the RAMNIT botnet, which has infected 3.2 million computers worldwide, including 33,000 in the UK. The National Crime Agency's cybercrime unit worked with cops in the Netherlands, Italy and Germany to shut down command-and-control servers used by the botnet. One of the servers was housed in …
"The NCA is advising people to check whether their computer has been infected by downloading specialist disinfection software, which is available free of charge at CyberStreetWise or GetSafeOnline."
The police want me to download some software and run it on my computer. How do I know this isn't some backdoor to enable the police or the government or GCHQ to spy on me? There is no more trust; they lost mine a long time ago.
How many different ways are there that someone could get into your house that you don't know about and the house builder could not anticipate? Perhaps someone could be sneaky and tunnel underneath and you would never know. When you get broken into in this way are you going to send the bill to the house builder?
If Microsoft had a crystal ball no doubt they would have fixed every ingenious unanticipated flaw that someone managed to exploit. I'm sure they love having the reputation they have amongst people like you who I guarantee couldn't code a universally used 100% secure operating system yourself.
Bollocks. It all stems from MS old code that to allow people to use computers *easily* they built in things to allow people to do things rather than have a proper security schema. Then came the Internet and multiuser environments, and all they done (and still do) is plumb in new pipes to get around it.
MS never had any security from bottom up - it is all patched and repatched and even repatched - and hence why all the spam mails, scams, and other shite ALWAYS involves a botnet of MS compromised machines.
Stupid OS with stupid users = disaster.
As someone once said:
"Microsoft allowed people to use a computer that shouldn't even be let near a computer".
Also the premise that all computers crash a lot, and is expected.
Personally, I am getting fed-up with the amount of crap I get hitting my mail servers/httpd servers from bloody compromised MS machines. Eventually it looks like I will have to blackwall the whole Internet thanks to MS.
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