CSI: Redmond
Once upon a time not that very long ago, Microsoft CEO and chief cheerleader Steve Ballmer was attending a friend's child's wedding. One of the parents complained that his PC had slowed to a crawl and was performing miserably. Would Steve mind having a look?
Ballmer spent the better part of the next two days trying to rid this PC of worms, viruses, spyware, malware, severe fragmentation, and well, you name it. Picture it: the world's 24th wealthiest person, a man worth $13.6 billion according to Forbes magazine, sitting at a table for two days, playing tech support. Ballmer eventually gave up and instead lugged the machine back to Microsoft's campus.
It turns out there were more than a hundred pieces of malware of various types. Things that these engineers using Microsoft's own private tools could not ferret out and fix. Some of these threats hooked themselves deeply into the core operating system and essentially lied about their existence. Other malware scoured the hard drive for anything containing the string "virus," and would "shoot them dead." The result was disabling any installed antivirus software.
It took a team of engineers to restore this system to health. And it was a real wake-up call.
"This really opened our eyes to what goes on in the real world."
As a result of this event and others like it, Microsoft got religion about system health.
At least that's what we're told.
Read the article HERE.
Ballmer spent the better part of the next two days trying to rid this PC of worms, viruses, spyware, malware, severe fragmentation, and well, you name it. Picture it: the world's 24th wealthiest person, a man worth $13.6 billion according to Forbes magazine, sitting at a table for two days, playing tech support. Ballmer eventually gave up and instead lugged the machine back to Microsoft's campus.
It turns out there were more than a hundred pieces of malware of various types. Things that these engineers using Microsoft's own private tools could not ferret out and fix. Some of these threats hooked themselves deeply into the core operating system and essentially lied about their existence. Other malware scoured the hard drive for anything containing the string "virus," and would "shoot them dead." The result was disabling any installed antivirus software.
It took a team of engineers to restore this system to health. And it was a real wake-up call.
"This really opened our eyes to what goes on in the real world."
As a result of this event and others like it, Microsoft got religion about system health.
At least that's what we're told.
Read the article HERE.
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