[WinTard]

My dear friend TechieXP, I fully understand and admire your devotions. And appreciate your feedback. But as an advice to all, we should simply ignore trolls; I know better, yet simply am much more congenial after my first cup of coffee :) Fighting rush hour traffic to work didn't help my mental state either.

Trolls are not worth the trouble. That's all they want. To elicit an emotional response, and disrupt mature and rational discussions.

They are just troublemakers, and we can depend on our excellent and diligent moderators to nip in the bud so to speak.

Again, I am deeply touched by your show of support, and please know that I would do the same.

I would advise all, to the greater good of our wonderful community, we simply should ignore all trolls and their juvenile attempts at stirring troubles.

Thank you.

Back on topic: Where's this Conficker/Downadup worm??? Hmmm??? A complete non-issue, for those prepared. Simple eh?

PS: Since this is April 1st, let's have fun! That's how we should behave regarding trolls...


~~~~~~~~~~
Learn the rules, so you know how to break them properly.
~ Dalai Lama, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.

[coastie65]

WinTard said:

I know better, yet simply am much more congenial after my first cup of coffee :) Fighting rush hour traffic to work didn't help my mental state either.



Back on topic: Where's this Conficker/Downadup worm??? Hmmm??? A complete non-issue, for those prepared. Simple eh?

PS: Since this is April 1st, let's have fun! That's how we should behave regarding trolls...


~~~~~~~~~~
Learn the rules, so you know how to break them properly.
~ Dalai Lama, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.

I never post before I get my coffee. :D Gives me time to get collected as it were. As far as rush hour traffic, I don't encounter much between my bedroom and the livingroom where the computer is. :D I'm surprised that no one has yet started an April Fool's Day thread in the general topics area. No worms to be found on this end. As I said, probably much ado about nothing.

[coastie65]

TO : Artzy65, boozip,garyoa1 , Your posts have been removed for being off topic. There have been warnings posted about that. You either didn't read them or chose to ignore them. This is a final warning: you may post to comment on the discussion topic ; IF YOU PERSIST IN IGNORING THIS AND CONTINUING WITH THE MAC vs PC THING, YOU CAN BE and MAY POSSIBLY BE BANNED FROM THE FORUM. coastie65

[ClaudeD]

Buy a Mac pay twice as much for the computer and software, if you can find any to run. And repair good luck finding a repair facility. Oh, and the security issues that remain un-patched well... for years. YA! buy a Mac and while you are at it stop at the local VW dealership and pick on up to.

[coastie65]

Hi Claude, I would suggest your read the posts in this thread before posting. There has been several warnings about continuing down this line. I have no compunctions what so ever about asking for the banning of ANYBODY that continues to ignore this so, KEEP PUSHING. coastie65

[rgreen4]

TO RE-ITERATE TO EVERYONE. THIS DISCUSSION IS ABOUT PROTECTING AGAINST THE CONFICKER WORM. ANY OFF TOPIC DISCUSSIONS WILL BE REMOVED. I JUST MOVED ONE. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED SEVERAL TIMES.

[bigpoppa]

Hey WinTARD, you making facts up as you go along? Mac doesn't have 2% of the market. In Dec 2007 it was 7.31% and in Dec 2008 it was 9.63%

[coastie65]

bigpoppa said:

Hey WinTARD, you making facts up as you go along? Mac doesn't have 2% of the market. In Dec 2007 it was 7.31% and in Dec 2008 it was 9.63%

bigpoppa, This is off topic as this topic has nothing to do with Mac. There has been numerous warnings posted about continuing along this line and I would suggest you go back up and review them. coastie65

[grill1]

Windows Essential Business Server helped to protect businesss from Conficker by pushing out updates to servers and clients, protecting the network with Threat Management Gateway and protecting PCs with 5 of 8 inductry-leading virus scanning engines in Forefront Security for Exchange.

Read more on my blog: windows-essential-business-server.blogspot.com/2009/04/protecting-against-conficker-worm-with.html.

[oregonnerd]

You're gonna have to do some enforcement. And plainly put: I am tired of the entire OS/machine difference with reference to good/better/best etc. Sure, if there's an article about it; in this case, you're entirely right. Please; do the Dirty Harry thing.
--Glenn

[DenTech]

If Mac was the leading OS they would be designing viruses specifically to that. Your statement seems to suggest that Macintosh is invulnerable to any type of viruses, which is of course, ridiculous and dangerous to believe.