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[solradia.livejournal.com]

If I could find whoever made that STUPID friggin virus, I would chain them to a helpdesk phone....... for all eternity.

If I could find the idiot who didn't install the security patches at the company I do tech support for, I would chain them to a 286.

Comments

[gaymafiakingpin.livejournal.com]

Can I help?

[mtlchick.livejournal.com]

You said it!

[the-revolution.livejournal.com]

Naw, you chain him to a PDP. .or make him run Multics or something.

[fnordx.livejournal.com]

I think that you should just find whomever created the virus, and drop them in the middle of New York City, and let everyone know that the guy who shut down there power for X days will be in the middle of central park.

[miharu.livejournal.com]

Make them work for Microsoft for free, indefinitely. I think that would probably be their worst nightmare.

[avantlegion.livejournal.com]

And what are you going to do to the developers of the shoddy OS that made it all possible?

Re: well

[danieltiger.livejournal.com]

i used to love my 286 :'(

[ngtmagicks.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, unpatched computers... Need ip addresses wonder if the people who run them would mind giving me their CC numbers as well?

[simulacraa.livejournal.com]

Now there is an idea!

meh

[akage.livejournal.com]

I have to admit, I'd smack him/her upside the head, then shake their hand, 'cause Blaster is a nice little piece of work.

Macro viruses just annoy me because they take little to no skill to create. Other than that, I have no problem with them, because they only target the weak and stupid, thus serving the same role as predators in a natural system. They help cull out people who shouldn't be allowed near a computer, thus making the online world stronger. (Except that there's always some hapless tech like us whose job it is to interfere in the natural order.)


But Blaster...I could see an otherwise intelligent end-user getting caught unawares by it (although running on broadband without a firewall is just asking for your system to be gangraped).

This time, instead of targeting stupid end-users, it's targeting stupid IT directors. There is ABSOLUTELY no excuse for a corporate network to be infected with Blaster (or it's little cousin, BooHoo). The exploit was known and made public well in advance of it showing up in the wild. The DoS payload was known and made public roughly a week before triggering.


It kills me that so many companies still have people with the technical ability of the common sea sponge in their IT departments, when so many talented people are now unemployed or working crap jobs to pay the bills.