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Re: Google tells a BILLION Android users to buy a new phone

From	"David B." <David@hotmail.co.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.advocacy, comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy, alt.computer.workshop
Subject	Re: Google tells a BILLION Android users to buy a new phone
Date	2026-02-18 16:42 +0000
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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

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Google tells a BILLION Android users to buy a new phone Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> - 2026-02-09 00:19 -0500
  Re: Google tells a BILLION Android users to buy a new phone Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-09 21:57 +0000
    Re: Google tells a BILLION Android users to buy a new phone Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> - 2026-02-09 18:05 -0500
      Re: Google tells a BILLION Android users to buy a new phone Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-10 00:33 +0000
        Re: Google tells a BILLION Android users to buy a new phone Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2026-02-09 16:37 -0800
        Re: Google tells a BILLION Android users to buy a new phone Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> - 2026-02-09 21:24 -0500
          Re: Google tells a BILLION Android users to buy a new phone Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-10 05:34 +0000
            Re: Google tells a BILLION Android users to buy a new phone Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2026-02-10 00:27 -0800
              Re: Google tells a BILLION Android users to buy a new phone Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> - 2026-02-10 08:02 -0500
                Re: Google tells a BILLION Android users to buy a new phone Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-11 00:24 +0000
                Re: Google tells a BILLION Android users to buy a new phone Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> - 2026-02-10 21:23 -0500
                Re: Google tells a BILLION Android users to buy a new phone Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-11 02:54 +0000
                Re: Google tells a BILLION Android users to buy a new phone Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> - 2026-02-12 12:35 -0500
                Re: Google tells a BILLION Android users to buy a new phone Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-12 19:01 +0000
                Re: Google tells a BILLION Android users to buy a new phone Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2026-02-12 12:43 -0800
                Re: Google tells a BILLION Android users to buy a new phone Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-12 04:18 +0000
                Re: Google tells a BILLION Android users to buy a new phone Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2026-02-11 21:09 -0800
                Re: Google tells a BILLION Android users to buy a new phone vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> - 2026-02-13 00:58 +0000
                Re: Google tells a BILLION Android users to buy a new phone Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2026-02-12 17:00 -0800
                Re: Google tells a BILLION Android users to buy a new phone Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> - 2026-02-12 07:38 -0500
                Re: Google tells a BILLION Android users to buy a new phone Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-12 19:02 +0000
                Re: Google tells a BILLION Android users to buy a new phone Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2026-02-12 12:43 -0800
                Re: Google tells a BILLION Android users to buy a new phone vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> - 2026-02-13 02:37 +0000
                Re: Google tells a BILLION Android users to buy a new phone vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> - 2026-02-13 03:24 +0000
                Re: Google tells a BILLION Android users to buy a new phone Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2026-02-12 23:49 -0800
                Re: Google tells a BILLION Android users to buy a new phone Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> - 2026-02-15 12:44 -0500
                Re: Google tells a BILLION Android users to buy a new phone Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-15 20:46 +0000
                Re: Google tells a BILLION Android users to buy a new phone -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2026-02-15 16:14 -0500
                Re: Google tells a BILLION Android users to buy a new phone Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> - 2026-02-17 22:22 -0500
                Re: Google tells a BILLION Android users to buy a new phone "David B." <David@hotmail.co.uk> - 2026-02-18 16:42 +0000
                Re: Google tells a BILLION Android users to buy a new phone vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> - 2026-02-19 20:20 +0000
                Re: Google tells a BILLION Android users to buy a new phone % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2026-02-19 14:27 -0700
            Re: Google tells a BILLION Android users to buy a new phone Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> - 2026-02-10 07:51 -0500

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