Yes, they really are that stupid

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

A TechDirt posting today, linking to this article about the new Bagle variant running around today ponders:

“…the anti-virus companies are out hyping up yet another non-event or many people are just clueless. It’s possible (and, perhaps, likely) that both may be true.”

Well I’m sure they are hyping it, because they do that. But I’m also sure, based on the fact that I’ve seen 3 times as much viral activity on our Postini filters today than I normally see in a whole day, (At only 2:15PM, and almost all copies of this) that someone out there is definitely getting infected!

My faith in humanity is not running very high right now…

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