mobile edition

At the AV Club: Best Music Of The '00s

American Voices

Friday, January 23, 2009

New Virus Infects One In 16 PCs

A computer scan by Panda Security showed that almost 6 percent of Windows systems were infected with the Conficker/Downanup worm, which harvests passwords and makes them easier to hijack. What do you think?

Young Woman

Paige Karenott,
Systems Analyst
"Yes—another inadvertently downloaded virus thwarted by my inadvertently downloaded security patch."

Young Man

Emil Baer,
Ship-To-Shore Crane Engineer
"I refuse to live in fear, so to hell with it, mine's 7845shuteye."

Black Man

Matt Staffen,
Machine Maintenance Mechanic
"I'm flattered that some hacker out there thinks my password can't be guessed on the spot."

Recent American Voices »
More American Voices »

Meet Other Onion Readers

more personals »