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... due to the incredible lack of interest in World Cup soccer.

Timing is everything...

it's not spreading fast enough, not affecting enough computers yet.
who wrote this damn thing? can't you make it work faster and hit more PCs simultaneously?

"it's not spreading fast enough, not affecting enough computers yet.
who wrote this damn thing? can't you make it work faster and hit more PCs simultaneously?"

Well, they are working with PCs......

Who's laughing now, Gatesy? There goes another bit of your market share, you schlockmeister. Apple Retail Stores are open late and Apple.com takes orders 25/7/365 - free yourself today!

guess they should've stolen it from Longhorn if they really wanted it to work...

B-Sabre:

hilarious!! how absolutely, absolutely true. they are already slowed down by previous viruses, bugs, spyware, etc., and mostly poorly configured, so even viruses spread slowly. hey, that's a new deterrent, maybe the only deterrent for windowz - make you computer so slow it cannot transmit viruses as quickly....

Just put Sober on a computer and you can immediately tell whether you are on a PC or a Mac -- Bill Gates, May 2005

Apple gives their loyal users an awesome Tiger.

Microsoft gives their loyal users worms.

What's a virus?
I wanted to see what all the fuss was about so I tried opening my "Free Ticket" email, but my stupid G5 can't open the attachment.
I even upgraded to Tiger to see if I won and still nothing.

I hate Mac...

"Systems affected: Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP."

And why the very same piece of C/C++ code is able to infect all the above systems? Because they for the most share LOTS of code. What really changes is the eye-candy on your screen but the same flaw and design crap that is targeted by Sober on Windows 95 is on Windows XP.

Evolution?? GIMME A BREAK!

Microsoft Windows, the most successful scam in IT ever.

You guys are all so funny! I like the Bill Gates quote from iPodder, teh B-Sabre comment about using PCs, and the quote from bad news bear about hating Mac because he/she can't seem to run this darn Free Ticket. In addition to having the intelligence to choose the best OS as opposed to choosing the one that all the other sheep are running, you also have a good sense of humor!

Jimbo,
Can you tell me if I've won?
Does anyone here have a PC I can send this attachment to? I'll give you one of the tickets if I win!!
So will I have to upgrade my Tiger to Longhorn in order to open this thing?

"Apple.com takes orders 25/7/365"

Wow...Apple's so busy these days that they get an extra hour everday to fill orders!

This is typical Apple fanatical BS. Yeah, Sober.P is a REAL threat to our systems...

Oh wait...It got the lowest rating.

Hmm, no wonder its spreading through europe. These people are to stupid to a)patch a system b)Turn on firewalls and filters.

Pathetic.

(mw) English

You Windows losers are pathetic. Gee thanks for polluting the internet with more of your virus traffic, no wonder the entire net has been slower the past 24 hours or so...

if the percentage is 77, then why does the text not say three fourths instead of two thirds? why downplay what is going on (c|net did this too)?
my MW was directly; i had previously had the magic word direct once; so i have progressed from adjectives to adverbs!

big dick:

That's typical wintel patcher fanatical BS.

Yeah, Europeans are all "to (sic) stupid" - that MUST be the reason. (check your grammar with Tiger's built in dick-tionary, big dick).

http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/5666/

Oh wait, you can't..

Oh wait...USA education and general knowledge and a lot of other things are NOT actually #1!

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8191.htm

"The United States is 49th in the world in literacy (the New York Times, Dec. 12, 2004).
The United States ranked 28th out of 40 countries in mathematical literacy (NYT, Dec. 12, 2004).
Twenty percent of Americans think the sun orbits the earth. Seventeen percent believe the earth revolves around the sun once a day (The Week, Jan. 7, 2005).
The International Adult Literacy Survey...found that Americans with less than nine years of education 'score worse than virtually all of the other countries'" (Jeremy Rifkin's superbly documented book The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream, p.78).
"The European Union leads the U.S. in...the number of science and engineering graduates; public research and development (R&D;) expenditures; and new capital raised" (The European Dream, p.70).
"Europe surpassed the United States in the mid-1990s as the largest producer of scientific literature" (The European Dream, p.70)."

"truth", as in USA is not #1 in many things that matter.

The USA is most in nuclear weapons. What matters more than that?

P.S. Don't piss them off. I live between The USA and Europe and I don't want to get caught in the fallout.

Yeah, And in 1944 My grandfather fought in europe so you could write on MDN, and not drink coffee in Paris speaking German.



Yeah, that didnt matter now did it?

Sorry, but I always thought American's thought the Earth revolved around America, not the sun or whatever.

I think this virus is pretty pathetic, Its too easy to remove.

mw (Saw) as in I saw really bad viruses and worms back in 1998

"Yeah, And in 1944 My grandfather fought in europe so you could write on MDN, and not drink coffee in Paris speaking German."

So what does that have to do with YOU? Just because you're related to him, doesn't mean crap.

And the Europeans helped the American colonials out so that USA actually exists ... the only bit of history that matters ...

MW is police (yes really!), as in ... well fill in the blanks ...

Bill Gates : the big Virus epidemic guy!

To our Euro friends .... (and hopefully there are still some )

Please do not equate the ignorance of a few Americans as representative of our countrys general IQ ....

Believe me ... not all Americans believe as this guy does ... contrary to outward apperances, of course

Happy,

Now I know why Bush got relected…he's representative of Americans. Go on yanks make ano ther war movie or allow some more guns in your country so you can kill, kill, kill. Just don't kill the rest of the world any more.

big dick:

Only one of your grandfathers? I hope the other didn't flee to Canada? And I certainly hope your grandmothers served too? That way you should be able to delude yourself into a believing in a subjective, highly personal link to virtually anything and therefore defend almost any opinion you like! Wouldn't that be a fantastic power rush? I for one, certainly appreciate the freedom Americans enjoy like living in the most obese nation in the world. No such luck here with all of our government meddling and discriminating anti-obesity laws. USA - #1 in obesity! Be proud!

http://www.malebits.com/article148.html

Speakign of viruses, sadly, the Americans may have caught the obesity virus..

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/07/28/fat.virus.ap/

Which might explain a lot of the rampant dementia in the USA...

http://my.webmd.com/content/article/71/81156.htm

In any case, you'll likely forget about all of this.

Cant wait for that new Windows OS, what's it called... Longworm?

woo, this is getting off topic. it's odd, how often i come here to read comments about mac stuff and see political/ethical arguments instead..!

MDN MW: does, as in "does it matter where you're from, as long as you're a mac user?"

"We bailed out Europe in WW1 & 2" so they owe us.

"We (the French mind you) helped you out during your Revolution" you owe us.

Lets just say we are even. Besides, We do much better working together than this bickering crap.

What happens if you put a switch on the computer, so you can turn OFF THE DISK DRIVE. Drive not moving-virus not possible. Anyone? Costs 2 cents to put the switch in.

The only reason the French helped us out in the Revolution is because they were perpetually in either a Cold or Hot war with the British over who would control North America and various other continents, and they believed that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend."

No doubt, someone will counter with: "Oh yeah, well the US did it, too", or something like that. Heard that before.

Thanks, though, for the Statue of Liberty and mayonaisse. No, I really can't spell mayonaisse, but it does not really bother me.

...in 1944 My grandfather fought in europe so you could write on MDN, and not drink coffee in Paris speaking German.

The war started in 1939, what took you so long to get there? American maps? Or were you waiting for the Nazis to finish off the commies? Always with the commies, you guys.

It's sad that you think Ronny and his neocons killed the USSR, when in fact the USSR collapsed because there was no middle-class to pay the bills. Oh well, your glorious M$ has replaced the warped need for a monopoly - only it's a capitalist one. And it's being promoted by a group of rich jerks bent on destroying the middle-class in your country.

Rubes.

So does this mean that Windows version 3.1 is immune to the virus?

Hey, I think this could be a good thing! Gates could re-release v3.1 as Windows Classic and all users would then be Virus free! Of course there would be that pesky issue of not having access to the internet, email, web browsing, graphics, USB, 802.11, ethernet, plug-n'-play, etc., etc., etc....

MW thus, as in Thus, shall ye be doomed to an inferior OS

>Big Dick
Sorry your grandad died in the war. Half the family of my grandma died in the war and the other hald was saved by the Sowjets. Should I now still be grateful them? In fact, nobody in Europe would be talking german today (except the germans, austrians and some swiss people) if the americans would have stayed at home, we would probably be talking russian - which is the main reason, why the US entered war: Out of pure self-interest, to keep its influence. The US are famous for sending their soldiers dying to keep their political influence in teh world, be it in Europe, Korea, Vietnam or Iraq. Blame your presidents but don't expect us today to still be grateful for your help. I am not grateful either for the austrians for having repelled the ottomans from Europe some hundred years ago. Or are you?

"no wonder its spreading through europe. These people are to stupid to a)patch a system b)Turn on firewalls and filters"

Yeah, for a virus to have success in the US, it probably has to use porn as a carrier

big dick.. you mentioning your grandfather on an internet message board about windows/mac... what a disgrace

do the math, most people on this board have grandfathers and great grandfathers that served in the military.

This US/Euro thing is getting really pathetic. No, scratch that, it's beyond pathetic.

An adult is supposed to be more than a child with a bank account.

yeah this is getting pretty pathetic....