Will Sony BMG's Rootkit Be The Most Popular Malware This Month?
from the please,-make-it-stop dept
We'd absolutely love for the Sony BMG / First4Internet story to die (a painful death) already, because it seems like it's taken up too much talk time already -- but something about it refuses to give up. The latest is that security researcher, Dan Kaminsky, has been trying to see how widespread the rootkit was spread and discovered evidence that an awful lot of computers are exposed and at risk of being infected by malware that takes advantage of the promiscuous nature of the rootkit. So, will the rootkit make it to the tops of those lists the virus companies love to put out each month detailing the biggest problems? Will Sony BMG and First4Internet still refuse to apologize and say there's no risk at all?
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"to die (a painful death) already"
Also, a parenthetical expression is usually reserved for a clause that doesn't have any grammatical connection to the rest of sentence. In this case you could have written it normally and it would have made a hell of a lot more sense instead of just randomly inserting parentheses.
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Alas, no one has. I made a mistake in that last post and it wasn't pointed out. I left out the word "the" somewhere. :(
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First, is it brief enough to get a message across that an interjection is appropriate.
Second, if you remove the contained material, does the sentence make sense? "... to die a death already." does not make sense.
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Throw them in jail.
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So as a result, every day we can read a new rootkit article that begins with "god damn it I hate to write another article about it but here it goes", "wow I wish I had nothing to write about the rootkit but there we go anyway!", "nooooo I'm writing about the rootkit again!!! read on..."
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Tools to find non-copy protected cd's
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Rootkit ?
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