You heard of Sasser, haven’t you? What, you didn’t? Where have you been the last 24 hours? I hope you’re not that irresponsible a person that you don’t check the virus warning bulletins every now and then. You should, you know, because there is danger lurking out there all the time. There is only a dozen websites that you have to consult regularly, say every hour or so, to keep up to date. And don’t come saying that you don’t have the time for all that, because you should have known that when you bought this computer with an operating system that has more holes than a Swiss gruyère cheese. What, you didn’t know that either? Poor me, are we naive or what? But, don’t despair, the patchman is on it’s way…

So, Sasser is the latest and greatest in entertainment for the wicked and the weird. It’s a virus! And once again it only affects Windows users! If you belong to that small subset of Windows users that like to use the Internet, you’ve been warned. Try to surf less or not at all, okay? And, of course, you should patch. As a rule, you should patch often. As much as you can. Or at least as often as Microsoft asks you to. If you’re finally tired of downloading and installing patches to patch patches that patched patches issued to fix patches that broke while patching a patch that didn’t patch the first patch, but broke the last patch you patched, you might want to try a Mac instead. More information about adding a Mac OS X machine to your computing arsenal here. (Courtesy of macdailynews)