Who is going to pay for my bandwidth charges because the overwhelming number of Windoze users don't know how to keep their machines secure and install patches, regardless to whether they purchased them or not?

Every worm, virus, and other misconfigured windows crap sending their junk to my non-Windows and fairly secure systems is eating up my bandwidth...maybe I should start charging Microsoft for my bandwidth gobbled up by their broken operating system?

After all, they spend so much time educating their users as to how to patch their OSs and go out of their way to make their security patches available to anyone that uses their stuff that it is so hard to believe that there is so much crap out there on the network.

My copy of Windows XP that I legally purchased came with no documentation stating that patches were even necessary, much less where to get them and the right way to install them so that they don't blow up and take out my box. How do they expect folks who legally have purchased the software to actually get the patches...quite frankly, I am more happy with a secured but pirated Windoze box than I am with an unsecure but legal one.

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