cozofdeath Posted June 8, 2006 Report Share Posted June 8, 2006 http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0...Enbv%5E,00.htmlMICROSOFT executives love telling stories against each other. Here's one that platforms vice-president Jim Allchin told at a recent Windows Vista reviewers conference about chief executive Steve Ballmer.It seems Steve was at a friend's wedding reception when the bride's father complained that his PC had slowed to a crawl and would Steve mind taking a look.Allchin says Ballmer, the world's 13th wealthiest man with a fortune of about $18 billion, spent almost two days trying to rid the PC of worms, viruses, spyware, malware and severe fragmentation without success.He lumped the thing back to Microsoft's headquarters and turned it over to a team of top engineers, who spent several days on the machine, finding it infected with more than 100 pieces of malware, some of which were nearly impossible to eradicate.Among the problems was a program that automatically disabled any antivirus software."This really opened our eyes to what goes on in the real world," Allchin told the audience. Can you believe that? lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted June 8, 2006 Report Share Posted June 8, 2006 I do believe it. A friend of mine got a brand new computer. I went to see him the very next day to install antivirus and antispyware programs. Doing an initial scan I found that the computer had already been infected by more than 30 different pieces of malware... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted June 8, 2006 Report Share Posted June 8, 2006 When I reinstall Windows, the computer is off line until My AV, Firewall and Anti Malware programs are installed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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