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Story: Trojans used for online extortion

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Serves you right for using Windows. Switch to something more inherently secure (GNU/Linux is a good choice), and you'll be much, much better off. These days, GNU/Linux is easier to use, and security patches are generally more quickly forthcoming than those from Microsoft.

This is one major advantage of code developed under a Free and Open license. The code is typically better in the first place, and fixes for it can be written by anybody in the world with an Internet connection. It's one reason why MITRE's report a few years ago about Free and Open Source Software in the US Dept. of Defense was particularly damning to the likes of Microsoft and Sun.

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