That's really cute...

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Looks like baby windows got sick again...
http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-5065494.html
Poor kid just can't keep the VIRUSES away!
But to be serious, holy shit. That's about a week straight windows users have been swamped with viri (viruses). This one looks to be pretty mean also. Maybe windows will experience a few months of virus hell and then people will start to realize there are alternatives which are much, much better. Or maybe not, and this will go on forever and ever...
 
Just remember, there's a difference between a virus and a worm, though either can cause major carnage. A virus is typically sent via email, such as this, while a worm goes directly through an Internet connection, such as Lovesan. This virus, while annoying, doesn't actually harm the computer in any significant way, unlike Lovesan.

My friend wanted to write a virus (a worm might be better) that would embed itself into the BIOS, format the hard drive, and restart the computer. Since it's in the BIOS, it is launched every time the computer starts up, guaranteeing at least 3 or 4 good wipes before anything can be done. Very insidious, and very encouraging to switch, methinks...
 
The deadliest worm is the one that you don't know you have, laying dormant, waiting for the master command. Until one day when some 10-year-old freek bounces the command off a few untraceable sources in Singapore, Mexico, and China that tells the virus to activate and all the sudden your PC has just become a soldier, along with thousands of other infected terminals around the world, attacking a single site by sending millions of requests to a major server farm, and it gets shut down, like they did last year when they crashed the eBay and Amazon farms for a day. woot.

Cool.

Keepin us on our toes. Keepin us frosty.

Hackers; making the net a safer place, one terminal at a time.
 
The one nasty deed of all bad deeds has not yet been done in Mac OS X:

A simple AppleScript or program that claims it's one thing and does another, like claiming to install a certain new feature when it really does "rm -rf/*". When installing Apple updates, an administrator password is required anyway, and many people would readily type in their password and allow carnage and chaos to ensue.
 
"This is a do-it-yourself virus. Please delete all files on your harddisk and forward this message to all contacts in your address book. Thank you."
 
Why do they do it? Originally hackers were focused on the one true thing everybody wants: more information. How do you obtain information? By getting power. And what's the easiest way to get power? Take it away from somebody else.

"The pirates of the olden days have resurfaced as digital identities. What will this new age of swashbuckling and plunder present to our community? What did it present to the communities of old?"

Yipee! ;)
 
Originally posted by chemistry_geek
The one nasty deed of all bad deeds has not yet been done in Mac OS X:

A simple AppleScript or program that claims it's one thing and does another, like claiming to install a certain new feature when it really does "rm -rf/*".
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I thought Apple already did that with iTunes. :)
 
::ha:::
Originally posted by Cat
"This is a do-it-yourself virus. Please delete all files on your harddisk and forward this message to all contacts in your address book. Thank you."
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ROFL! I wonder if it would ever work on anyone?
 
I still think someone should implement my friend's idea. That would be really funny, though it would suck for all those Wintel people. Not having a BIOS, Macs would naturally be immune.

I get very little spam anyway. Almost all of it is filtered out by my provider, and I filter out the rest. And I would never open a .pif file, even if it did nothing.
 
A Mac virus that reformats your entire drive, replicates, assimilates your address books, configures its own mail server and sends out the same worms to all your favorite friends is easy-peasy-japanesey. We're just not gonna make News like the windows people if our drives get deltree'd.

This virus week is going to sell a lot of Apple hardware. Makes ya wonder.
 
Originally posted by habilis
A Mac virus that reformats your entire drive, replicates, assimilates your address books, configures its own mail server and sends out the same worms to all your favorite friends is easy-peasy-japanesey. We're just not gonna make News like the windows people if our drives get deltree'd.

This virus week is going to sell a lot of Apple hardware. Makes ya wonder.
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If it's so easy, why hasn't some Mac-hating idiot done it already? :confused:
Copying files okay - installing and deleting, no way.
 
Why do people make viruses and mass-distribute them in the first place? Not to wreck havoc on people's computers, though that's one of the perks. They do it to see and hear about it in the news, to get a message across (like fix your software, Billy Gates), to expose the flaws of a megalopoly like Microsoft.
 
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