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Story: Malware authors mixing a lethal cocktail

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Posted by: Michael Geier (Thursday 9 December 2004, 7:06 PM)

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Your political orientation has little to do with your position on the matter.

And, as for laws governing this material, you do realize that a person who writes a VIRUS has little concern for someone writing them a ticket, or slapping them on the hand, as well as usualyy being outside the scope of US law.

The only solution for this type of software is the effort of the software companies to write better code, instead of quick releasing versions to make a buck or two. Or, take the Unix/Linux approach and limit how software can actually execute on a computer, as opposed to everything running under the administrative account (ie. Windows).

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