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PostPosted: 09-May-2004 20:34    Post subject: Viri suck Reply to topic Reply with quote

I had my wife's laptop on the internet less than 30 seconds and it caught the sasser worm...if I ever get my hands on the guy that wrote it they won't have to worry about a trial...

...for him.

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PostPosted: 09-May-2004 20:58    Post subject: RE: Viri suck Reply to topic Reply with quote

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On 2004-05-09 20:34, chihawk wrote:
I had my wife's laptop on the internet less than 30 seconds and it caught the sasser worm...if I ever get my hands on the guy that wrote it they won't have to worry about a trial...

...for him.

You may be happy to know that he has been caught...he is a German teenager.

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PostPosted: 09-May-2004 21:45    Post subject: RE: Viri suck Reply to topic Reply with quote

Who ever comes up with these worms and viruses and trojan horses needs medicine.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and these guys need about twenty pounds each to cure em....

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PostPosted: 09-May-2004 22:31    Post subject: RE: Viri suck Reply to topic Reply with quote

Hey, people will do a lot just to get famous. Or was that notorious?

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PostPosted: 10-May-2004 00:32    Post subject: RE: Viri suck Reply to topic Reply with quote

more like do anything to get a prison term....

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PostPosted: 10-May-2004 02:13    Post subject: RE: Viri suck Reply to topic Reply with quote

That so they can meet the nice men in the shower?

Pick up the soap!

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PostPosted: 10-May-2004 05:17    Post subject: RE: Viri suck Reply to topic Reply with quote

He should be stoned to death...

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PostPosted: 10-May-2004 06:27    Post subject: RE: Viri suck Reply to topic Reply with quote

Funny, I haven't had a virus of any kind since I started using Linux and My Mac.....

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PostPosted: 10-May-2004 10:46    Post subject: RE: Viri suck Reply to topic Reply with quote

Because nobody would notice if those platforms were hit by a virus
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PostPosted: 10-May-2004 18:19    Post subject: RE: Viri suck Reply to topic Reply with quote

Funny quote from TechTV..."if half the people that claimed to run Linux actually did it would be the number 2 OS, and as it's number 5...." (he didn't say what #2 thru #4 was)

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PostPosted: 11-May-2004 06:15    Post subject: RE: Viri suck Reply to topic Reply with quote

IF I had a way to prove it, and you wanted proof, I'd do it in a a heartbeat.





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PostPosted: 11-May-2004 16:20    Post subject: RE: Viri suck Reply to topic Reply with quote

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On 2004-05-11 06:15, Sir Henry wrote:
IF I had a way to prove it, and you wanted proof, I'd do it in a a heartbeat.







I have little doubt you do...I'm not even sure his quote is correct, I just found it amusing.

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PostPosted: 12-May-2004 06:33    Post subject: RE: Viri suck Reply to topic Reply with quote

I could always take a screenshot or two.....

Beside I just got my 1 Gb RAM stick for my Mac.



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PostPosted: 15-May-2004 04:41    Post subject: RE: Viri suck Reply to topic Reply with quote

I feel your pain... I had just nuked my hard drive from orbit (it's the only way to be sure) and as i was downloading and installing stuff again, I got the Sasser worm too

Had to start again the process, but this time I got an antivirus and ran it through my files.. turns out my computer was a disease ridden carcass , I found half a dozen viri in my files, granted, most of them were just latent and harmless, but I'm going to be more paranoid in the future.

There's a silver lining to every cloud, though, I could retrieve my contact list from the server this time, so in that respect I'm better off
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PostPosted: 15-May-2004 09:38    Post subject: RE: Viri suck Reply to topic Reply with quote

There's this extra CD full of utilities that came with a mobo. I really need to figure out how to use Norton Ghost. That would save me from a lot of grief in the future, since I'm sure I'll manage to bork my computer again at some point.

I've caught worms too, but that taught me one thing: always disconnect the router before you start formatting/installing/configuring. You want a firewall up and running before connecting to the net, period.

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