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Story: Bagle and Mytob evolve again

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Posted by: Olav Petri (Wednesday 1 June 2005, 1:33 PM)

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The Wintel treadmill is replaced by the A-V+Windows treadmill. Same Windows exploits, small variation on A-V software. These are *variants* not new malware. These are not new problems. Why do the customers of MS put up with broken designs?

The same mindset also afflicts MS hardware. Case in point the flammable xboxes:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/19/xbox_recall_nofix/
(Sorry, couldn't find ZDNet link)

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