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   From: David@hotmail.co.uk   
      
   On 18/02/2026 03:22, Tom Elam wrote:   
   > On 2/15/26 3:46 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >> You sound like one of those people from the old Soviet Union, totally   
   >> unaccustomed to free-market competition, seeing a Western-style   
   >> supermarket for the first time and being totally baffled by the need   
   >> for so much choice. “Wouldn’t it be more efficient to just have one of   
   >> each product?” you say. And we all know the answer to that, don’t we?   
   >   
   > I'm a person who long ago downloaded a program from a non-oem site and   
   > had a Dell desktop running a fully patched XP infected with malware that   
   > nobody I talked to could fully removed. How do you know your devices are   
   > not being infected with subtle but nefarious malware?   
      
   EXCELLENT question!   
      
   Did you simply destroy the hard drive or, like me, destroy the whole   
   computer on advice from our High-Tech Crime Unit?   
      
   They were concerned about the firmware being infected!   
      
   ACW group added!   
      
   --   
   Kind regards,   
   David   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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