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chihawk
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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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Motown Scrapper
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| Posted: 09-May-2004 20:58 Post subject: RE: Viri suck |
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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.
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You may be happy to know that he has been caught...he is a German teenager.
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DarkAdder
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| Posted: 09-May-2004 21:45 Post subject: RE: Viri suck |
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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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Nightmare
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| Posted: 09-May-2004 22:31 Post subject: RE: Viri suck |
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Hey, people will do a lot just to get famous. Or was that notorious?
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DarkAdder
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| Posted: 10-May-2004 00:32 Post subject: RE: Viri suck |
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more like do anything to get a prison term....
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Wanallo
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| Posted: 10-May-2004 02:13 Post subject: RE: Viri suck |
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That so they can meet the nice men in the shower?
Pick up the soap!  
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chihawk
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| Posted: 10-May-2004 05:17 Post subject: RE: Viri suck |
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He should be stoned to death...
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Sir Henry
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| Posted: 10-May-2004 06:27 Post subject: RE: Viri suck |
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Funny, I haven't had a virus of any kind since I started using Linux and My Mac..... 
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Ronin
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| Posted: 10-May-2004 10:46 Post subject: RE: Viri suck |
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Because nobody would notice if those platforms were hit by a virus 
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chihawk
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| Posted: 10-May-2004 18:19 Post subject: RE: Viri suck |
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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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Sir Henry
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| Posted: 11-May-2004 06:15 Post subject: RE: Viri suck |
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IF I had a way to prove it, and you wanted proof, I'd do it in a a heartbeat.
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chihawk
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| Posted: 11-May-2004 16:20 Post subject: RE: Viri suck |
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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.
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I have little doubt you do...I'm not even sure his quote is correct, I just found it amusing.
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Sir Henry
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| Posted: 12-May-2004 06:33 Post subject: RE: Viri suck |
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I could always take a screenshot or two.....
Beside I just got my 1 Gb RAM stick for my Mac.
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Vampire
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| Posted: 15-May-2004 04:41 Post subject: RE: Viri suck |
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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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Nightmare
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| Posted: 15-May-2004 09:38 Post subject: RE: Viri suck |
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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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