The sound of the shotgun blast is still ringing in my ears. The security practice I work for had decided that one of our client’s machines was just too far gone and that we should wipe it and start from scratch. The client is fairly new and has been maintaining their systems fairly haphazardly up until we came into the picture. I and another principal don’t like to give up on such systems, but this specific IBM laptop was just too far gone and we (I) eventually had to pull the trigger. — Victor Garza. Does your computer have rabies? Technology Industry