I thank Norton Anti-Virus for discovering that my laptop caught the Nimda virus last night. I’ve come down with Nimda few times in the past couple of months. But, Nimda works by placing a file in a high percentage of the directories on your hard drive. For each file, Norton Anti-Virus puts up a dialogue box asking if you want to get rid of the infected file. Several thousand clicks later, you have a virus-free machine.

Yo, Symantec, you mighty maker of Norton Anti-Virus: How about putting in a button that says: “Shall we remove in one blow all the nasty files created by this despicable virus, or would you like to look at every single one in case some make a plea for their lives that you find compelling?”

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