Ok seriously... Don't you think people who make computer viruses and spyware should be shot??

Honestly.. If they know they do it.. don't you think anyone who makes spyware and viruses should be shot?

You know they are still alive somewhere in the world.. don't you want to find them and shoote them?

Ok seriously... Don't you think people who make computer viruses and spyware should be shot??liveupdate

i feel quite the opposite, i think the people who blindly run any old attachment in their email should be shot - 99% of viruses only exist because most people don't have common sense when online.

very few modern viruses have the ability to spread without some naive computer user running something before checking it.

if i can run windows without antivirus software and never fall foul of one simply because i've a little knowledge about how they work then so can everyone else, virus infection rates would drop to the floor...but then who would norton have to scare into buying their multimillion dollar generating products if that happened?

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my argument doesn't need to stand up in court, i've never written a virus so i'm unlikely to end up in court charged with writing one. but you've missed what my 'argument' is anyways, which was that with VERY basic knowledge about programs and how they operate the vast majority of infections wouldn't occur in the first place - since when has ignorance been a valid excuse for anything? well, it's never been in the country i live.