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Originally posted by Ioncannon@Dec 30 2005, 12:02 PM
I honestly don't care if I get infected with a virus. It hyped by the media, but honestly, its not like the end of the world if your pc gets infected.
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...and it's that exact mentality which has resulted in countless millions of zombies. You not caring is the reason that I get as much spam as I do and the reason that I have to deal with massively-distributed denial of service attacks on servers I administer rather than centralized attacks. Maybe you don't have anything of importance on your computer and the free time to do a restore when need be (which means you either don't have a computer-dependent job or you're your own boss which some lacking time-management skills), but you represent the plague of the net. It's a selfish attitude which is an abuse of a communal resource.
Your (infected) machine is connected to the internet and in return for that you owe it to everyone else to be a responsible netizen.