Subject: How Microsoft fuels Internet terrorism
From: Stanley Long (slong@customcpu.com)
Date: Mon Aug 25 2003 - 08:21:11 AKDT
How Microsoft fuels Internet terrorism
Russ McGuire -- Business Reform Magazine
August 25, 2003 (WorldNetDaily)
You see, the MSBlaster virus was built using one of many new "features"
built into the latest versions of Microsoft Windows. Microsoft has
computer manufacturers ship home PCs with the Remote Procedure Call
feature activated. Chances are 99% of consumers will never use any
application that needs this feature. But the terrorist who brought down
businesses, government agencies, and who knows how many home PCs found a
way to use it.
<http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34231>
Bottom line, thanks to the powerful tools (or should I say weapons) that
Microsoft has built into their products, criminals now dominate the
Internet. Common citizens don't feel safe anymore. ...
---------
To unsubscribe, send email to <aklug-request@aklug.org>
with 'unsubscribe' in the message body.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2a23 : Mon Aug 25 2003 - 08:15:22 AKDT