I get the lamest virii..

[dmsalem00.livejournal.com]

So yeah, performing my ritual cleansing of the computer.

Going through, deleting things, running my anti-spyware stuff, defragging, etc.

I go to housecall, run a scan. I have 11 files infected by a worm. Not just any worm, the SDDROP.C worm.

*headdesk*

This is ALMOST as bad as the time that I found a trojan porno dialer on my computer. After I'd removed the dial-up modem.

I get the gayest virii. A 3rd rate browser hijack does more damage than this POS worm I just killed. =/

I'm so disappointed in the internet..

[edit]
I don't think anyone who's replied to this post so far has really gotten the gist of it.
I'm not disappointed in the fact that i HAVE(had) a virus.
I'm disappointed in the fact that it's a lame, do-nothing virus.
I mean c'mon, when's the last time SDDROP.C did ANYTHING, let alone posed a threat?

And according to dictionary.com, "vir" is the prefix to anything regarding "viruses", and "ii" is to mean something plural. Hence, "virii" = "more than one virus."

kthx.

Comments

[natertots.livejournal.com]

heh... you should just be disappointed in your own attention to detail.

;)

[natertots.livejournal.com]

I spent the last week cleaning firii off users machines who who had disabled virus scan.... you wanna talk about *headdesk*

:D

Gah, some people never learn. Glad you didn't get anything bad, though.

[dmsalem00.livejournal.com]

See my above edit.

And I'm disappointed that I didn't get anything bad. I mean, two clicks in the registry, and deleting a few painfully obvious files, and it's gone. where's the fun?

[omicron32.livejournal.com]

1. Virii isn't a word. It's viruses.

2. http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox - You work in tech support right? Then you should know how fucking shite IE is.

[dmsalem00.livejournal.com]

See my above edit.

And I've walked people through downloading mozilla by ftp'ing the website though the command line when IE is unrepairable.

What makes you think I'm not using FireFox now? (ok, i'm not, but I pride myself on being able to efficiently use programs other people throw down in disgust, ie- WinME, AOL, IE, Hewlett Packards in general..)

[oddball42.livejournal.com]

and you do this to yourself why?

we may technically support me at work, but i would never have abused my system with it...

[brokengoose.livejournal.com]

We had lots of customii at the store today. Who worries about how their wordii end, anyway?

Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus

[dmsalem00.livejournal.com]

In honor of this huge argument, i'm ending all my plural wordii in double i's.

Many thankii >=D

[boredevilperson.livejournal.com]

This made me stop and think . . . (dangerous for me)

I think the last time I had a virus was probably back in '97 or '98. Norton caught it and killed it.

I've never received a virus in e-mail, I've had e-mail since '96 lol. (Even when the ILOVEYOU virus was going around the company I was working for at the time I somehow managed to not receive it) I have received plenty of fake warnings however.

OTOH I get a ton of spam (I was getting 200 a day to one account before I finally closed it) and I've had an issue with spyware last year but haven't had any since. The spyware attack that I had amounted to a few extra popup windows though. Nothing too major. Switched to Firefox on the Windows boxes only about three or four months ago too so before that I was wide open for any spyware infestation.

Compared to most people I think my Windows boxes live in a bubble. ;-) But I have always been good about installing Windows Updates and keeping my virus scanners up to date and frequently run. So of course I won't get hit if I'm overprepared!

My Mac hasn't had any of those annoyances I feel I should mention. ;-) And I'm religious on that thing about updating my virus scanner and running it. I hear everywhere that it's pointless on the Mac but I figure that the l33t are going to code something sooner or later that'll be aimed at Mac OS X so I should be prepared since any personal data that's of value to me is stored on here. It's not that Mac OS X is immune to this stuff, it's just simply not a target because the userbase is so small. (Which is fine by me!)

Ok thinking is over, I'll return to my usual zombielike state.

[bdinger.livejournal.com]

I'm so with you. I've always had a Windows box for gaming, aside for about a year between 2002-2003, and the last virus I had was in 1999. Granted I've always ran NT-based Windows releases (NT 3.51, NT 4, 2000, XP) and I'm religous about not running email clients that aren't run directly off my mailserver (read: Mutt) or web based.

I don't run IE, email clients, or "major" software (read AOL's offical AIM client, etc). I tend to stick with stuff that I run on Linux/MacOS X (Gaim, Xchat, Mozilla/Firefox) aside from games.

It's easy to see the differences. My work laptop has a email client (Novell GroupWise) installed, and I occasionally have to use IE (via the Avant Browser) to test out websites. I've so far been infected twice. The first time was blaster, which I got the day I recieved the laptop. Thank you Dell for not patching XP when you send out new machines! Fuckers.

Second was my own damn fault, one of those stupid email viruses that I really wasn't awake enough to realize what I was doing. Doe.

Anyway, yeah, agreed. People complain about Windows and viruses, but really it's just a matter of being safe. Don't use IE, don't use Outlook, and religously update a virus scanner.

Badda bing, badda boom.

[dmsalem00.livejournal.com]

Virus scanner to me = housecall.antivirus.com once every two weeks.

I can kill a virus. even if it takes some major back-up mojo and formatting. Virii(YES I SAID IT AGAIN) don't scare me.

oh PS - see my edit above.

[boredevilperson.livejournal.com]

Yup exactly. Use as much offbeat software as you can or at least be smart about what you're doing.

And yup my Windows desktop PC (I built it all by myself. Well save for actually creating the motherboard and all the other circuit boards . . . and I didn't write the OS either . . . Ok so I piece mealed it all by myself) is for when friends are over (a couple want to check their e-mail and can't adjust to the Mac *shrugs*) and to play games. Otherwise it doesn't get much use.

My Windows 2000 laptop (Gateway *spit* never again) is there just because I haven't replaced it with something better. Hmmm Ya know I wonder how it would run with Linux.

Then my other Windows 2000 laptop (Dell Latitude It's had more issues than the Gateway but at least Dell's good about taking care of things under warranty) is supplied from work. I'm sure they'd love me to install a Linux distro but I need to be compatible with everyone else unfortunatly.

hmmmm Maybe I shouldn't be using Safari on the Mac . . . That would probably be the first thing they'd try to attack eh? Thing is though I'm not wild about the Mac version of FireFox. Not sure why.

I'm really wondering what these people will do when they do decide to stop ignoring the Macintosh operating system. Honestly it doesn't appear to be much of a challenge at all to hack Windows up. Is it a "C'mon man! Everybody's doing it" kind of thing?

[dmsalem00.livejournal.com]

See my above edit.

And you want to talk bubble?

I've been sitting here serenely in my Windows ME bubble, impervious to the worms that have been wreaking havoc as of late in the world of RAM-hogging WinXP.

And I'm going to laugh my ass off the day the worms hit Macs.

[boredevilperson.livejournal.com]

Windows Xtra Pissy you mean?

And yup me too. I'm being as careful as possible with my Mac because it's completely possible for this same stuff to happen with that. WIndows is the obvious target right now but Mac and Linux users will probably have something to worry about soon enough.

I'm wondering just how they're going to hit the Mac anyway. I don't think anything can be installed via the Safari browser (which is basically a retooled version of Mozilla) and any programs that you would install require an admin password (even if you're on as an admin) before any major changes can take place. But then there's ways around everything and nothing is foolproof.

And there ARE vulnerabilities in this operating system too. Otherwise I wouldn't get security patches every month or two.

[boredevilperson.livejournal.com]

Oh BTW I noticed that you were talking about someone else's PC by the time I was done writing lol

I thought it strange that you would be hit by all that garbage

[dmsalem00.livejournal.com]

No, actually, I was talking about my own.

And it wasn't that much garbage, just a worm that had infected 11 dummy-files. Mostly BS files that pretended to be video game cd cracks and what not, but were dumped in a windows directory(as if).

I'd enjoy a good virus attack =/

[boredevilperson.livejournal.com]

oh hmmmmm hehe *red face* It's late lol

[tjernobyl.livejournal.com]

I found half a dozen when I was purging my 98 machine in preparation for the final switch to Linux. None were active. A lot of them were Word macrovirii. Avoiding Microsoft programs works wonders as a prophylactic measure.

[dmsalem00.livejournal.com]

[edit]
I don't think anyone who's replied to this post so far has really gotten the gist of it.
I'm not disappointed in the fact that i HAVE(had) a virus.
I'm disappointed in the fact that it's a lame, do-nothing virus.
I mean c'mon, when's the last time SDDROP.C did ANYTHING, let alone posed a threat?

And according to dictionary.com, "vir" is the prefix to anything regarding "viruses", and "ii" is to mean something plural. Hence, "virii" = "more than one virus."

kthx.

[jahbulon.livejournal.com]

The first virus I ever got was the Macro_cap ..

Nasty bugger, really, really nasty..

Replaced all macros in my word docs with little squares..

OOOOOooooOOooooooooo!

[dmsalem00.livejournal.com]

ROFL

that's kinda funny actually.

There's some boot sector virus or *something* out there, i haven't even got a clue how it works, but it inserts lots of random smiley faces in the BIOS screen. O_o

[jahbulon.livejournal.com]

Haha mad.. I want that virus..

It couldn't make my piece of shit laptop any worse that's for sure

[docskurlock.livejournal.com]

Being more than the common user of winbloze, I have gotten a couple of no name, cheapo virii. I have never gotten (knock wood) any of the really bad, have to reformat style virii. I use windows, however, I just sent out for that Novell pack, so I may switch the ole dell laptop back to suse. Anyway, my point is, I do use Outlook, but I don't open any email that I don't know who it's from. Also, I disable the preview pane, which is just like opening the email. I also use something called mailwasher pro, which checks 4 out of the 6 emails I get. Since I get A LOT of spam on my msn accounts, I am debating getting rid of them, and just sending the important people to my gmail account. Anyway, just saying that as a smart user of windows, you can prevent yourself from getting virii. Also, I hear yah man, I used to work at a mom and pop computer store, and endless people brought in windows 98 machines infected with blaster, sircam, nimda, and others. Eleven dummy files is nothing, I had one lady bring in a computer with a couple thousand infected files.

Yeah, you do get gay virii. The trojan porno dialer is probably the funniest one. I looked up sddrop.c and it sucks. Oh well, at least you can safely say that you are a virus killer. Now, go find all the idiots still running IE and lets beat them into submission.

[dmsalem00.livejournal.com]

me <~~ idiot running IE

>=D

actually, right now i'm posting from within AOL's browser

MUWAHAHAHHA

[docskurlock.livejournal.com]

Having used the aol browswer BRIEFLY, I must repeat leia's statement in A New Hope.

"You fly in THAT thing? You're braver than I thought."


HEHEHEHHE

[dmsalem00.livejournal.com]

ROFL

and i don't even like star wars ;-p

[kthnxbi.livejournal.com]

Your logic is *seriously* flawed. Virus is a word. Viruses is the plural. You've searched for two different things on dictionary.com and merely assumed that adding a suffix and a prefix together makes a word. It doesn't. Octopii is not a word. Platupii is not a word. Hence, virii is not a word. To prove my point: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=virii
No entry found for virii.

Also: here. (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Virii)
BAM!
As that website clearly states, nowhere is "virii" used in the medical profession. Only BBS/warez etc geeks use it. Try looking for the plural of virus in any dictionary. Virii is never mentioned.

Need anymore proof? No? kthnx.

[oddball42.livejournal.com]

yeah but rember Doh was not a word until popular culture made it a word.

[kthnxbi.livejournal.com]

The creation of a new word due to popular culture is nothing like mis-using the Latin language in some misguided notion, just because they can't be bothered to truly *learn* the rules of Latin and think they're right just because everyone else is doing it.
Remember most people don't know the difference between you're and your, or their, there and they're either. Or they think to pluralise certain words is to put an apostrophe followed by an S after it (the dreaded Greengrocer's Apostrophe - bananas becomes banana's, etc).

tl;dr: The plural of virus is viruses. End of discussion.

[dmsalem00.livejournal.com]

tip: the plural of anal is now anii.

tip: let it the fuck go, man. It's not like I called your(look I used it right) mamma fat. =/

Besides, half of tech support(the competent ones that is) at some point used to be "leet."

[dmsalem00.livejournal.com]

Besides, someone with "kthxbi" for a username correcting an old hacker/warez term with proper english?

Pot.

Kettle.

Black.

plz, kthx, and bye.

[kthnxbi.livejournal.com]

It's called irony, my friend.

[oddball42.livejournal.com]

i dont think they are putting that much into it. they are saying it cause it sounds cool.

and again this has happened before.

also rember this is a country that it turning mispronunciation and slang into a new language and trying to get it taught in schools.

[firthy.livejournal.com]

What happened to the days when a virus would delete all your important system files and personal data and fuck up the bootsector?

Today's viruses are pathetic.

[dmsalem00.livejournal.com]

Amen.

[dysan27.livejournal.com]

[Bored and backreading]
Agreed.
They do nothing today, Every once in a while you will get one that runns rampentt and all it does it choke bandwidth trying to spread its self.

I'm waiting for someone to create a highly distributed virus with a kicker of a bayload. heck even worse then the boot sector, how about something that goes after BIOS? It's porgramable, ther's got to be ways to screw with it. Even CD-Drives have programable firmware.

I wonder what the reaction would be from industry if a virus got out that actualy destroyed equipment.

P.s. Love your TARDIS icon, can't wait till Christmas.

[dmsalem00.livejournal.com]

Regarding the TARDIS icon, cheers.

At least you live in a country that's picked up the new series. Being in the US, I'm still patiently waiting a way I can watch it without it being marginally legal. At least no one's after the new episodes, as it's not on Region 1, and not being shown stateside.

What'd you think of Eccleston as number 9 anyway?

[(Anonymous)]

Sort of odd that vir- relates to viruses and vir is man...

-Anon.