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You know what's annoying?

I've been getting Klez virus attachments from this AOL user for a few months. I thought about just blackholing her, but I felt kind of bad. I should help the other people in her address book by pointing out the problem to her, and giving her instructions to clean and patch her machine.

She won't listen.

The conversation?

(21:16:58) ReidMe1st: Hi. Your computer has a virus. Please go to http://www.windowsupdate.com and update windows/outlook express. Then go to http://www.mcafee.com and download a virus scanner.
(21:17:22) Cara1188: you are a dork!
(21:19:54) Cara1188: are you there???
(21:20:10) Cara1188: you do no that u r a dork, dont you?
(21:20:30) ReidMe1st: heh
(21:20:40) ReidMe1st: of course
(21:20:46) ReidMe1st: but you still have a virus
(21:20:59) Cara1188: no i dont!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(21:21:02) ReidMe1st: yep you do
(21:21:04) ReidMe1st: sorry to tell you
(21:21:17) Cara1188: shut the Hell UP!

So what do you do when someone has a virus and won't acknowledge it? I have a suggestion. Add her to your buddy list. Let her know what's up, give her instructions on how to clean her box. I've pasted a mail header below in case anyone has any doubts....

Anyway, I've come to the conclusion that the real problem isn't Microsoft, it's the users. We linux zealots claim better security, but in reality we could have an equally safe box running Win2k (or MacOS X). It's because we know what we're doing.

Anyway I'm saying what's been said before, so I'll stop. But, if you have a spare minute, hail poor Cara1188 and try to coax her into patching her computer. If she doesn't, then the terrorists have already won!

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