Comments on: There is Life After Conficker: Critical Microsoft Office Vulnerabilities http://techrights.org/2009/04/05/life-after-conficker-critical/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Yggdrasil http://techrights.org/2009/04/05/life-after-conficker-critical/comment-page-1/#comment-61706 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:42:36 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=8145#comment-61706 It’s important for readers to note that the first article link provided is already old. April 1st, 5 days old now. But why did Roy use this? Because the article paints a very bad picture. It’s got a scary headline, “It’s worse than we thought!” and uses a large, though unproven number of 10 million. It’s not uncommon for news media to try and scare readers. After all, playing on fears is a great way to ensure people read the articles and advertisers get the viewers.

It would have been better to use something more recent, like this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/03/conficker_zombie_count/

“Conficker zombie botnet drops to 3.5 million” – amazing what a difference a few days makes when it comes to more accurate news reporting.

However, this article doesn’t make Microsoft look as bad, so Roy will quickly dismiss this article. It’s not fit for BoycottNovell. He is only interested in the worst of the worst. Readers however, would be interested in being given more recent and accurate information.

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