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Old 18 April 2006, 01:31 PM
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Wait till these nasties start to get good with the programming.

What do you think?
Old 18 April 2006, 02:17 PM
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I think you've been reading too much slashdot
Old 18 April 2006, 03:48 PM
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Or not enough.
Old 18 April 2006, 03:56 PM
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Originally Posted by davidpa
Wait till these nasties start to get good with the programming.

What do you think?
If you have spyware/malware detection in place and you are careful about what you download and install then you should not experience issues.

We'll overlook Sony at this point, installing something which might possibly be called a rootkit.
Old 18 April 2006, 10:46 PM
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Even Microsoft seem to be bricking it

See http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1945782,00.asp

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Heres another:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/2006/0...otkits_mcafee/
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