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Here’s Something on Which M$ and I Agree

Published by Robert Pogson October 6th, 2010 in technology. 1 Comment

“A CORPORATE VP at Microsoft for ‘trustworthy computing’, Scott Charney has called for computers that have been turned into zombies by malware to be quarantined from the Internet.”

Amen! That’s about 60% of PCs that should have GNU/Linux installed ASAP. That would really put a dent in spam and DDOS etc. We could direct out-going requests from zombies to http://goodbye-microsoft.com until they start showing better User-Agents. Would the zombie-masters start shipping false User-Agents? Sigh. Well. It was just a thought… I suppose M$ will prefer to sell a product that certifies a clean installation of their OS.

- Robert Pogson

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1 Matias Oct 7th, 2010 at 2:04 am

Societies are worried about smoking, drugs, overweight, terrorism, car accidents. But they are simultaneously pretty careless about botnets. The should do something to these Windows-botnets but are they mentally ready to kick out perhaps 30-40% of Windows-pc’s? Likely not. Then there is security business who might be very scary of Linux killing the cash cow. But in this case public intrest must be number one. Botnets are eating bandwidth. Something must do and very quickly.

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