"Only a good and up-to-date antivirus will scan said file and tell you it contains the trojan."

Another thought - Windows defender does this job. Windows defender and Windows firewall...

"Whoah! Where did you get the notion that NTFS protects you from the trojan in that nice-looking free tinker-tool from some obscure Russian website (just because your friends told you...

"How can I tell my son (18) that if he does not install firewalling and anti-virus, he is essentially a willing part of criminal organisations who use such "open" targets...

The more I learn, the more I know that I don't know anything.

Open offices are a completely unproductive and idiotic idea. Give me a closed door office all the time.

Check this out.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000068.html

"The description of the article seems to fit and there are plenty of people that would like to use Google syntax to build search on FTS. "

SQLServerCentral.com should implement this...

The first thing we must get smarter about is the format of this newsletter. I have a 24" monitor and this newsletter spans three horizontal pages in that. ...

Actually this is not about the topic, but about the format of the emails. I like the new left justified format, it is much more pleasant to read and...

"Why should something as routine as backup not be done automatically by computers? Why depend on people to do the backup?"

The reason I asked this was, database corruption almost always...

Why should something as routine as backup not be done automatically by computers? Why depend on people to do the backup?

" It's why we win wars... "

We do?

I always thought in software it is a golden rule not fallacy. 'if it ain't broke don't fix it'. Maybe it is...

The ANY and ALL operators are seriously error prone, because in English we can use 'any' in place of 'every', which could lead to the (incorrect) use of >ANY instead...

Its called putting all our eggs in a collective basket resulting in a single point of failure. We designed the internet to avoid single points of failure, that wisdom...

Steve, I think you are going through Men-O-Pause. 🙂 You will get over it soon.

I think it is better to put your head under the sand than to have it up in the clouds...