Readers comment on the LizaMoon infection story

Readers comment on the LizaMoon infection story

By Fred Langa The recent LizaMoon Top Story generated a deluge of reader e-mails! Some of the letters criticized my actions — but most of the letters requested additional details and some asked excellent "what if?" questions.

The questions and comments about the story fell into several broad categories, broken out below — some with an example question that stands in for many similar ones...

That's the only topic in this week's Windows secrets column: answering some great reader mail about the LizaMoon infection I deliberately allowed onto my PC.

Readers comment on the LizaMoon infection story

The full issue:

Free content: TOP STORY By Woody Leonhard Office 365 offers value, but it's not Office Deconstructing Office 365 and its components What you can do better with Office 365 Taking Office 365 for a quick test drive LOUNGE LIFE By Kathleen Atkins Dark view of keyloggers in the Lounge WACKY WEB WEEK By Revia Romberg The help desk — sixth-century edition   You get all of the following in our paid content: LANGALIST PLUS By Fred Langa Readers comment on the LizaMoon infection story Where does the "LizaMoon" name come from? Why didn't Security Essentials stop the malware? Better to run Win7 as a restricted user? Why no safety net via System Restore? How do you know your PC is really disinfected? Safer ways to close a suspicious dialog box As always, the best defense remains common sense BEST PRACTICES By Jan Bultmann Companies track Web use — and keystrokes The dangers of living your life at work How do they know what you're doing? Small consolation: some employee protection Protect your privacy at work — here's how: PATCH WATCH By Susan Bradley Cleaning up after massive Patch Tuesday Finally you can install the PowerPoint update The update for Outlook is still a pass Developer patches develop into big problems iPhones get iPassed over for updates .NET patching is never easy — plan for problems Silverlight patch: A security update — or not? A new problem with Windows 7's SP1 update A batch of compatibility updates arrives Regularly updated problem-patch chart A portion of your support helps children in developing countries Each month, we send a full year of sponsorship to a different child. Your contributions in April are helping us to sponsor Rizu, a nine-year-old boy from India. Children International channels development aid from donors to Rizu and his community. We also sponsor kids through Save the Children. More info

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