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So many good reasons to be looking forward to buying Vista

Some security experts have said the age of the high-impact, Internet-wide worm is over. Instead, increasingly organized cybercriminals are looking to exploit flaws directed at specific companies for financial gain and want to fly under the radar. Criminals use botnets to relay spam, distribute spyware and launch other online attacks. A widespread worm could affect the performance of the Internet--a disruption that could also disrupt their means of business.

It was bound to happne: the script kiddies have been replaced by the mob....



For the new worms to propagate, the attacker must instruct a compromised machine to scan for new targets, DeBolt said. A vulnerable computer can be compromised remotely and without any user interaction, he said.

MS Classic: U do nothing AND your PC get compromised. MS windows CANNOT GET CORRECTED, even after all the tons of patches that have been applied....

ANd Vista is comming so there are SO MANY REASONS TO SWITCH.... MS so funny

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