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nockergeek) wrote2002-05-08 08:37 am
nockergeek) wrote2002-05-08 08:37 am
Dickless wonder.
Last night, I took Z out for dinner to get her some hot soup and hot tea, and when we got home I decided to check my email. Since Z was using Tadaka, I booted up Rover and checked my email there. In my email box was a message entitled "Title" with an attachment from someone I didn't recognize. I clicked on the email so that I could delete it, and Outlook Express chose, in its oh-so-finite wisdom, to run the attachment without my consent.
Thank you, Microsoft, for that brilliant security design. I think I'll be switching to Mozilla Mail or somesuch.
Anyway, I was fortunate that Rover has an empty address book, because otherwise W32.Klez would have propogated through the 'net some more. I grabbed a free trial copy of Norton Antivirus (since the laptop didn't have any virus scanning software), checked out the removal process on Symantec's website, and proceeded to clean the system. Ended up losing 8 .exe files in the process, including TextPad (my editor of choice) and WinAmp. Fortunately, nothing serious was wiped, but all that needed to happen was Explorer.exe getting corrupted and I would have been even more pissed.
And now, my rant.
I understand coding for the sake of coding - going into deep hack mode and making some code just because you can. What I don't understand is the mindset behind creating a virus. It's completely malicious, and it's cowardly. It's not even hacking into someone's system yourself; you're just stting around, completely anonymous, while your creation wreaks havoc online. Virus writers are true dickless wonders. I wonder what kind of cheap kicks they get while writing the damn things. Of course, then every 2-bit script kiddie and l33t cr4ckX0r has to get in on the action and release their own version of the virus because they're not even original enough to come up with a new one.
These people need to get out more and/or get laid, I think.
Oh, and Microsoft, a double thumbs-down to you for releasing software so full of security holes that these hopeless bastards have a new exploit to toy around with every week, and for trying to pretend that said holes don't exist. Security through obscurity is bad, mmm'kay?
Thank you, Microsoft, for that brilliant security design. I think I'll be switching to Mozilla Mail or somesuch.
Anyway, I was fortunate that Rover has an empty address book, because otherwise W32.Klez would have propogated through the 'net some more. I grabbed a free trial copy of Norton Antivirus (since the laptop didn't have any virus scanning software), checked out the removal process on Symantec's website, and proceeded to clean the system. Ended up losing 8 .exe files in the process, including TextPad (my editor of choice) and WinAmp. Fortunately, nothing serious was wiped, but all that needed to happen was Explorer.exe getting corrupted and I would have been even more pissed.
And now, my rant.
I understand coding for the sake of coding - going into deep hack mode and making some code just because you can. What I don't understand is the mindset behind creating a virus. It's completely malicious, and it's cowardly. It's not even hacking into someone's system yourself; you're just stting around, completely anonymous, while your creation wreaks havoc online. Virus writers are true dickless wonders. I wonder what kind of cheap kicks they get while writing the damn things. Of course, then every 2-bit script kiddie and l33t cr4ckX0r has to get in on the action and release their own version of the virus because they're not even original enough to come up with a new one.
These people need to get out more and/or get laid, I think.
Oh, and Microsoft, a double thumbs-down to you for releasing software so full of security holes that these hopeless bastards have a new exploit to toy around with every week, and for trying to pretend that said holes don't exist. Security through obscurity is bad, mmm'kay?