The Phoenix Project

[Keith Morse]

On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Bill Campbell wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 04:12:22PM +0800, M.W. Chang wrote:
> >cannot agree more. I believe there quite a number of users out there 
> >need to use IE + Mozilla mail-news. :)  OE is such a joke ....
> 
> OE would be a joke if it weren't for the billions of dollars is costs every
> year to clean up after it introduces worms into the Microsoft virus,
> Windows.
> 
> The tip of the iceberg is the gross sales of companies like McAfee, Norton,
> et al, who's sole reason for being is to sell products that clean up after
> security breaches of Windows (note, clean up, they can't fix the problem --
> nor do they have any incentive to since it would put them out of business).


Amen, brother.  I just can't rid of this nagging feeling that some amount 
of duplicity is involved.


I'd estimate that 30-35% of the billable hours our shop generates is 
towards the cleanup and removal of MS windows based viruses.