Typically I'd agree with you, but this statement here...

"Tatro said she was 'looking forward to Monday's embalming therapy"

Is reason enough to be concerned. When some kind of school shooting happens, there is typically a message before hand. Sure, you can shrug off the "I wana cuta bitch" but when you make statements like the one posted above, there needs to be some kind of action.

Bah your right man. My mistake, should have said "Sptite based games" or something.

Seriously! There is obviously a market for people who like retro games, and the developers need to take advantage of this.

Do you understand how many people would buy a new 8-bit RPG game similar to something like Chrono Trigger? Holy crap, I'd jump all over that.

This is when games were about the story, and not about the shiny graphics.

I've never had to use a tool to remove a virus. The thing is, those tools are designed to remove some of the key entries of the virus, but it's still just registry keys and temp files. I've seen those fake anti-virus programs, and if you know your way around the registry, you CAN remove it without the need of a 3rd party tool.

Ah but here is the problem.

To you, removing a virus from Linux is easy, because you are obviously an intelligent Linux user.

(Someone posted above the removal instructions)

For you to write out: sudo rm -f /usr/bin/Auto.bash /usr/bin/run.bash /etc/profile.d/gnome.sh index.php run.bash && sudo dpkg -r app5552

seems like nothing at all, but what about the average computer user? Do you think they know what sudo is? Hell I don't use Linux and I have no idea what the shit any of that stuff means. So no, that would only work with someone who really knows what they are doing with Linux.

Now on the flip side, you say...

"On Windows and the like, things are so complicated that Anti-virus software is almost required to remove some of their malware"

Ah, but this is going off the assumption that we are dealing with an average Windows user, not an expert user (Such as your self with Linux)

An expert Windows user like myself would say "Removing Malware is easy, just go into the registry's run section, remove what looks suspicious, delete temp files, prefetch, and search for the malware running process (Example: virus.exe) in the registry, and delete it"

Ah see that to me is easy, I've done things like that all the time, and it's just cake.

So I guess the point I'm trying to make is that...To you, removing a virus like this from Linux can be really simple...to someone who knows Linux, but the same can be said to a Windows user...who knows about Windows.

Well if you experience this issue from an update, would "Last known good configuration" not resolve this?

My recommendation is to find an older version of the application and install that. That's what I've done so far.

I run version 3.8, and at the moment it's taking up about 16MB of memory (Vista 64-bit)

I've seen the newer versions, and would stay far away from that.

That's a good way of taking what I said out of context.

Anyone that installs Anti-Virus on their PC and expects it to protect them from their own stupidity deserves what they get.

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/09/the-150-space-camera-mit-students-beat-nasa-on-beer-money-budget/

The only real difference is that this one went a bit higher (100,000 ft) where as the MIT guys made it 93,000. Still pretty close though.

I hope that's something new, because I've had terrible experience with Lenovo laptops. I loved it when it was IBM but since then, it's been terrible.

We had about 6 Lenovo T-60 Laptops, and they had this bug where if you removed the power cord, or connected it, or docked/undocked, the keyboard and mouse would just stop working. This would force you to hold down the power button.

We had this issue, and tried to send it into Lenovo 6 times. Each time they assured us that they would fix the issue, but all that happened was them replacing the keyboard or some BS thing.

Then they told us we needed to order some rubber boots for the docking station. After all that trouble, we got rid of the T-60's and purchase Dell now.

I had nothing but terrible experience with Lenovo support, and the T-60 series. They were first gen, so I'll give it that it most likely had bugs, but they still should have taken care of the issue.

As for the X series, we had no problems.

Just a word of caution....

Do you think the Marketers give a rats ass?

What weird is in that link it says...

"By Timothy B. Lee | Last updated May 23, 2008 12:21 PM CT"

Why are people worried?

Two words: Spanish Flu.

Go look it up.

for something you currently get for a flat rate or for free without having to give up the money or privacy that cloud companies hope to leverage into fortunes."

Did it ever occur to you that maybe some people don't want to have to worry about upgrades, viruses, slowness, etc... If someone out there can provide computer access to users with the protection from Viruses, hardware becoming obsolete, and other general hardware problems, what's the problem in that?

This could work well for the elderly who just don't want to deal with all the crap that comes with owning a computer.