Vista, The Best Operating System

If this happened to me, I would think that someone had a hidden camera somewhere waiting for my reaction.

A batch of laptops pre-installed with Windows Vista Home Premium was found to have been infected with a 13-year-old boot sector virus.

Those of you with a long memory will vividly recall the year 1994: Nirvana’s lead singer Kurt Cobain died, South Africa held its first multi-racial elections, and Tony Blair became leader of the Labour party. Oh, and Microsoft’s operating system was the quaint, pre-NT Windows for Workgroups.

But it was a year that also saw the arrival of a boot sector computer virus known as Stoned.Angelina which moved the original master boot record to cylinder 0, head 0, sector 9.

Talk about a crapshoot. I think we’d have better luck finding designer knockoffs at some wholesale clothing store than we would avoiding some of the viruses out there.

[Source: The Register via Dvorak]