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  • Re: Google tells a BILLION Android users to buy a new phone

    From Tom Elam@[email protected] to comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy on Tue Feb 17 22:22:55 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 2/15/26 3:46 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
    You sound like one of those people from the old Soviet Union, totally unaccustomed to free-market competition, seeing a Western-style
    supermarket for the first time and being totally baffled by the need
    for so much choice. “Wouldn’t it be more efficient to just have one of each product?” you say. And we all know the answer to that, don’t we?

    I'm a person who long ago downloaded a program from a non-oem site and
    had a Dell desktop running a fully patched XP infected with malware that nobody I talked to could fully removed. How do you know your devices are
    not being infected with subtle but nefarious malware?
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  • From David B.@[email protected] to comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,alt.computer.workshop on Wed Feb 18 16:42:20 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 18/02/2026 03:22, Tom Elam wrote:
    On 2/15/26 3:46 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
    You sound like one of those people from the old Soviet Union, totally
    unaccustomed to free-market competition, seeing a Western-style
    supermarket for the first time and being totally baffled by the need
    for so much choice. “Wouldn’t it be more efficient to just have one of >> each product?” you say. And we all know the answer to that, don’t we?

    I'm a person who long ago downloaded a program from a non-oem site and
    had a Dell desktop running a fully patched XP infected with malware that nobody I talked to could fully removed. How do you know your devices are
    not being infected with subtle but nefarious malware?

    EXCELLENT question!

    Did you simply destroy the hard drive or, like me, destroy the whole
    computer on advice from our High-Tech Crime Unit?

    They were concerned about the firmware being infected!

    ACW group added!
    --
    Kind regards,
    David
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  • From vallor@[email protected] to comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy on Thu Feb 19 20:20:23 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    At Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:22:55 -0500, Tom Elam <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 2/15/26 3:46 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
    You sound like one of those people from the old Soviet Union,
    totally unaccustomed to free-market competition, seeing a
    Western-style supermarket for the first time and being totally
    baffled by the need for so much choice. “Wouldn’t it be more
    efficient to just have one of each product?” you say. And we all
    know the answer to that, don’t we?

    I'm a person who long ago downloaded a program from a non-oem site
    and had a Dell desktop running a fully patched XP infected with
    malware that nobody I talked to could fully removed. How do you know
    your devices are not being infected with subtle but nefarious
    malware?

    "Just because your paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you."
    --
    -v ASUS TUF DASH F15 x86_64 Mem: 15.9G
    OS: Linux 6.14.0-37-generic D: Mint 22.2 DE: Xfce 4.18 (X11)
    NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile (6G) 580.126.09
    "A flashlight is a case for holding dead batteries."
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  • From pursent100@[email protected] to comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy on Thu Feb 19 14:27:54 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    vallor wrote:
    At Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:22:55 -0500, Tom Elam <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 2/15/26 3:46 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
    You sound like one of those people from the old Soviet Union,
    totally unaccustomed to free-market competition, seeing a
    Western-style supermarket for the first time and being totally
    baffled by the need for so much choice. “Wouldn’t it be more
    efficient to just have one of each product?” you say. And we all
    know the answer to that, don’t we?

    I'm a person who long ago downloaded a program from a non-oem site
    and had a Dell desktop running a fully patched XP infected with
    malware that nobody I talked to could fully removed. How do you know
    your devices are not being infected with subtle but nefarious
    malware?

    "Just because your paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you."

    yes it does
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