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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (40698)	4/17/2004 5:08:11 PM
From: rrufff	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

As I know your fondness for "nuke 'em," I wish we could find a few of these little bastiches who write these viruses and give them a nuclear worm or a trojan. Seriously though, I 'd like to see criminal penalties with real teeth, e.g. 5 years in prison, no parole for those who disseminate this crap. Of course, too many vested interests now who make money defending the internet.

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (40698)	4/17/2004 6:00:55 PM
From: RMP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

>>How come there are so many problems with these updates? My guess is that there are so many different system configurations that it is impossible for MSFT to test their patches on all the different combinations. My fiend who works on a large hospital network in NYC ran into a problem the other day. It seems that after setting up a computer to work with a blackberry he was the first person to log into the network after the security updates. The computer froze and the hard drive had to be re imaged.

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (40698)	4/17/2004 7:53:20 PM
From: thecow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

I think Ron stated it perfectly. I am amazed that we have as few problems as we do. Think of the complexity of the different operating systems, the networking, the millions of programs, and the millions of different pieces of hardware that we expect to operate flawlessly 100% of the time. All with 0's and 1's. Just a few years ago, all this stuff was science fiction. I'll bet there are less than 1 out of a thousand updates that go bad. That's pretty good. You hear a lot of people giving Gates all kinds of grief when something goes wrong when most of the time, there's probably user error involved as well. Another thing that makes it sound like there's more trouble than there really is....how many times have you heard someone say how well the past 20 updates have gone. When one person has a problem they start posting about it on the internet looking for the answer. We hear the bad, but seldom hear the good. I'm sure Microsoft could build a better system but would the average Joe be able to afford it? I don't know. Of course, all this is just my opinion.