Microsoft offers prank Blue Screen Of Death

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The approach to non-malicious 'joke' program by McAfee, Symantec and few others is uncalled for. It is not these companies job to decide for me how to entertain myself. If the program does not harm the computer there is no reason (or right) for AV programs to flag it.

I had, for a long time, a nice little program called StressRemover that let you knock and break your screen with a mouse or burn it with a flame thrower etc. My kids loved it but then Symantec flagged it and it was gone. The AV companies would be better of working on fighting viruses and trojans (which they don't do so well - the latest Stration trojan took a week to be recognized as malicious software) than overstepping their role.

Posted by: drorharari   Posted on: 11/17/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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