some little 'facts'...

HP does indeed have about 150 instances of spy/malware preinstalled on their boxes...this is how they sell them for so cheap, as they are paid by these 'ppl' (boy, I must be loosing it to be so politically correct...) to bundle it in...

an un-firewalled computer lasts around 6 minutes online before it is infected/trojaned/etc...

this supposed medical transcriber could indeed have been hacked, and had LW (or another gnutella client) installed unbeknownst to her...it is already known that there is virus floating around which makes LW open up by itself, so it is really not a stretch of the imagination that a hacker could have taken over her machine and done what he wanted to with it...

on the flip side, it is also quite possible that this transcriber is lying to cover her ***...too many ppl answer yes to 'do you want to have your machine scanned for media to share?'..that has always pissed me off...I mean really, do the devs really want to have such data shared (seems like it don't it?)

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