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["Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com>]

On 12/16/06, Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net> wrote:
> Now most Viri, worms, etc are written by script kiddies.  They are just
> doing some minor modification to an existing program then parading around
> like they did something.  There are still new programs being written but
> truly original work is rare.
How depressing. Even the hackers are semi-automated, sort of.

Another theory I've pondered on is that all the companies out there
selling protection from various viruses, worms, etc. have a small,
elite group working on new ones... but, hey, that's paranoid.

The more serious problem is spam. The main reason that I finally
switched to Gmail was that my ISP-based accounts were overrun by spam.
I've yet to find a decent spamblocking software.

Marie