This is the most insidious form of FUD because it is the most difficult to counter. It is especially useful for drawing attention away from incidents of #2 (full-scale fabrication of new weaknesses for your opponent). For example: ``You don't have to troll the net for freeware solutions, edit reams of config files and be a power user to config WinNT or Win9X'' ( http://bbs.msnbc.com/bbs/msnbc-scitech/posts/ol/49648.asp ). Note the careful conjunction of exaggeration (``edit reams of config files''), truth (``be a power user'') and outright fabrication (the implication that one must troll the net for freeware solutions in order to configure Linux).