How does a bug from a windows box get transfered to you linux box?!

WOW and I suppose the government can read our thought's?!

I know it sounds paranoid, but you have got to be one step ahead of those malware writers. M$ newest offering is sooooo poorly done that you have to wonder what else are they doing with there time. Why else does it take so long for them to issue a new version of Windows, when anything Unix-based can issue and re-issue an upgrade to their OS within two years. It's so obvious that M$ has been writing viruses and selling solutions to security software companies, and the duped customers just swallow it hook, line, and sinker.

How else do explain all the security software companies dropping their support for the old Windows OS's, whenever M$ drops it support. When M$ drops it's support for the aging OS, that is when the poor customer needs security for the aging software the most! But what does the security companies do? They drop support too. Why!? Because they don't have anybody writing viruses and solutions to keep John and Jane American Dumbass buying their software.

The proprietary software business (and any business) is about making money. It isn't cost effective to support old releases and versions forever, especially when you are selling products. You have to keep putting out products that people will pay for. To answer your question, this is the reason companies drop support for old products. It costs too much to support old products and pays better to sell new products. With microslop putting out more and more rubbish, there is always something to write and sell to do what microslop should have done themselves. It should be pretty evident from the bazillions of dollars spent on antivirus etc for winbloze that something is rotten in Redmound.

To the silly sounding accusation that microslag or their employees could actually write a virus for Linux (although there would first be a popup saying you have to accept the EULA and then another popup that says OK with no other choices, and then a blue screen of death), it may not be as ridiculous a proposition as it sounds at first. Corporate espionage is already old news and so are patent infrigements etc. Do you really think that with billions of dollars of future revenue at stake certain people who's futures depend on winbloze wouldn't be willing to spend time writing viruses or malware for Linux? That's not proof of anything, but the motive is certainly there.

I don't think the security companies need to do anything to make winbloze an unstable unusable lot of rubbish. The lads at Redmound do it quite well by themselves. Leave it to the professionals, I always say!

Sounds?

Don't underestimate yourself!

OTOH, I love reading these threads..

Yes! Yes, I do want to be a Slacker all my life (if that means using Slackware Linux for the rest of my life). Although Arch Linux is starting to look good.