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…

Share with your friends!
LinkedInBlueskyMastodonThreadsRedditBuffer

Similar Posts

  • Remote Desktop

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

    Gee with everything else going on around here, I forgot to tell you all about my trial run with Remote Desktop last night. It’s not exactly as sure-fire simple as the Sales guys made it out to be the few times I asked about it. First I setup the XP box at work to accept…

  • It’s arrived

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Just got a phone call from the fine folks down the street to let me know that they had gotten a package for me delivered to them and that I could pick it up from the front desk of their buidling. Obviously, I ran down the street to get my package, and I am now…

  • Brain dead…

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Don’t you just hate when you get in a panic about something and spend far too much time on it, only to discover that it was your own stupidity that caused the problem to begin with? I needed to move some stuff from my work PC over to my laptop to take home. The easiest…

  • IT Independence

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 4 minutes

    Over at Doc’s IT Garage there’s a lengthy post about business needs, and using outside vendors as opposed to internal IT people and the view of IT from the top. A couple of quotes: “FA new study by the white-shoe consultancy Bain & Co. finds that, while 70% of senior executives at large corporations agree…

  • Discuss amongst yourselves, I’ll give you a topic..

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Here are some links to recent news stories: SpyWare steps out of the shadows. How to steal a domain in easy stages. Weblog Spam Porn sites hiding behind blogs. New virus scams paypal users Blogrolling hacked Who needs virus’s when cPanel can stuff your site up for you instead? All of this stuff has been…

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

To respond on your own website, enter the URL of your response which should contain a link to this post's permalink URL. Your response will then appear (possibly after moderation) on this page. Want to update or remove your response? Update or delete your post and re-enter your post's URL again. (Find out more about Webmentions.)