Whether you do or not is one thing, however to suggest others are
"chumps" because they lack your skills or interest is at the very
least insulting.
Yeah, sorry. Sometimes I'm a smart ass. I don't like the condesending
posts either but the context of that statement was that I was responding to
Nick Shtangey's post. I'm very careful when replying to others and you'll
see that I'm actually very empathetic with newbee questions. That was sort
of an insider's smirk between him and I.
Besides, all the anti-virus applications failed to knock this one out. So
you be the judge. It's my experience that they only protect against known
exploits. It's the unknown ones that I'm more likely to get hit with. So
rather than take a performance hit and bog my system down, I just live fast
and loose and do lots of backing up.
Further, you say "...really good CD and FTP back up strategy though"
Does that mean if you get a virus, all you data is protected?
Yes. I have a really good incremental backup strategy that means I can
format and reinstall the OS if I have a problem in less time than it takes
to do a virus clean up. I move crucial incremental backups to a remote
server every day and backup to CD pretty often.
What about the other computers your computer may infect because you
appear not to care for "chumps"?
Not likely, because I have firewall. Also, my address book is limited to
friends that know my message style and would never open an exe from me (of
course, a web page attack might still get out via html javascript etc.).
It is partially do to thinking like yours that this worm is spreading
so fast, people do not consider ramifications outside their own little
box.
No, the reason this happened is because their are terrorist criminals out
there who think it's clever to disrupt people's lives and try to destroy
the network of communication that Microsoft has made accessible for
everyone with low cost OS's. They are frustrated impotent little people
who think that if they tear something down, it means they are powerful.
I refuse to agree with your statement impugning me as part of the problem
when everything I have done in my computer career has helped to disseminate
knowledge, create quality software and provide excellent support to my
users. But don't sweat it, there's vicious people out there who hate my
guts just because I worked for Microsoft at one time; I know the difference
when I hear frustration in someone's post vs. an actual attack.
Mark Henri
