So in reading the recent blog by Aubry I got confused, I’ll confess. I’m not sure what a PIFTS.EXE is, Grey Hat’s are, or  why they would send information to Africa. One thing I did get out of it is that IF they do manufacture these viruses to keep their own business going then that is mucho bad. Peoples personal information are stored on their computers and being somebody who lost a computer to viruses in the past I take this personally. Not only did I lose all my school work but i also lost all the pictures I took during the summer going into college and my first 2 years at school. People may not think a computer virus is a big deal but lets take this from a different angle.

Lets say a virus for humans comes out that makes you forget everything that you did for the past three years and also makes you randomly yell out information such as your date of birth, social security number, and credit card numbers. Then a company comes out with a cure for it, we will make up a random name for this company, lets say… ummm… Notron. Now Notron sells the cure to everyone but they realize that this is the main source of the profit for company and don’t want their company to pull a Circuit City (too soon?). All of a sudden, despite Notrons best efforts, the virus starts infecting more and more people. Notron raises the price of their service and business is going well for them. Then rumors that they are spreading this virus arise. Isn’t that something that should be looked into? Wouldn’t Congress have a committee looking into these allegations the second they came out? So why is the true life rumor treated any differently?

Now I understand that at this time the government has bigger problems than to look into every little claim and I am fine with that but even I, being a nearly computer illiterate, have heard of people mentioning this issue for years. So why has it never been investigated before this? why are computer savy people not getting together right now to investigate this? Think about how much this costs the average person; between taking your computer to be cleaned by geek squad, to time you waste, to buying  a new computer I’m guessing the price is pretty expensive. I would guess that the amount of money American citizens spend on fixing their computers in one week could pay for a team of investigators to put these rumors to rest. Norton should be more than willing to help in anyway possible since these claims are so untrue (I am just assuming that they are untrue because it would take a truly evil company lead by some of the biggest douche bags the world has ever seen for this to be true and I don’t believe that Norton is a company like that).

So lets investigate this so that we can put these ever present rumors to rest. Then Norton can be put back up with the likes of Batman and Superman as one of the few doing everything possible to protect the public.

Jeffrey Bogosian

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