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20050105 Wednesday January 05, 2005

 Oi! Stop pinching my cycles!

Like all good internet citizens I run a virus program,anti-adware and firewall programs on my PC whenever it is running Windows (and there's a firewall and antivirus on JDS too as it happens).

Out of curiosity, when I last rebuilt my laptop I ran some tests to see how much performance and memory I had to sacrifice to run these, nowadays, essential services.

Well, the answer is about 30 Megabytes of RAM and around 20% of the performance of my PC.

Therefore, over the last year, these spammers and worm writers have cost me around 2.1024*10^14 cpu cycles and about £10 of memory. Can I get some compensation please?

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Don't forget to ask for compensation for the cost of the virus, anti-adware and firewall software!

Posted by Jay Morgan on January 05, 2005 at 07:55 PM GMT #

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