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As if you didn't need more reasons to stop using Mirosoft Windows

2005-11-03 09:05:23

Windows is now the target of corporate-backed hackers who put a rootkit on your system to stop you from exercising your legimate rights to make personal copies of music. Mark Russinovich has the scoop at his sysinternals site.

If you are a Linux or Mac user, there is always an annoyance that this or that web site or software application doesn't support anything but Windows/IE. This illustrates the flip side: those lazy enough to ignore 5-10% of the user base also do so with their idiotic malware. Hooray.