Re: Hacker suspect says his PC was hijacked

[Joshua Levitsky <jlevitsk () joshie com>]

On Oct 12, 2003, at 2:36 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

> The average car manufacturer doesn't try as hard as they possibly could
> to make sure you never visit the dealership for regularly scheduled 
> maintenance....

I drive a Ford truck. The Ford dealer I bought it from never told me 
when to come in to service my brakes. They just tell me to come in 
every so often. If you brought your computer in to where you bought it 
every 3 months and paid them an hour labor ($89.00 US where I live for 
an hour of auto labor) then I suspect your computer would be in pretty 
good shape. They would turn on Auto Updating and they would verify that 
your Anti Virus updates automatically and that there is no SpyWare on 
your system.

Microsoft doesn't stop anyone from bringing machines in to the seller 
of Windows based machines. It's really the seller that has failed you 
in my scenario. They sell you a computer at CompUSA or wherever, and 
they never tell you at the dealer that you need to do certain things.

And even if you are right, and Microsoft somehow works so that you 
won't update your machine. If a car dealer sold you a car and said come 
back in 100,000 miles for a checkup. Wouldn't it still be you that's a 
fool for not doing some research in to what is needed to keep your car 
properly maintained? If people took personal responsibility for the 
upkeep of their cars, computers, houses, etc... then we would all be in 
a better place. Modern society has a sickness. That sickness is 
stupidity. Sadly everyone keeps feeding that stupidity so it's only 
going to get worse from generation to generation. H.G. Wells wasn't too 
far off with his idea of the Eloi. It's makes me a little bit sad that 
the world is coming to this.

--
Joshua Levitsky, CISSP, MCSE
System Engineer
AOL Time Warner
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