balam - 1:38 pm on Jan 27, 2005 (gmt 0)

> "Yessss mommmmm....."

Too funny.

While I run a legal copy of Windows, I'm still on the fence as to whether this is a good thing or not.

Getting a bit hypothetical, what about in six months' time when the next extremely critical core component flaw is found and then exploited by virus writers against a sea of machines that can't/won't get patched? What if the payload does nothing to the machine it's installed in - except maybe scan Outlook for addresses to further spread itself - but turn it into a zombie for a DDOS attack?

I suppose what I'm wondering is, is the piracy so bad that it's worth it to create "a lot" of permanently infectable machines?