Boring; unimaginative computer viruses'

[JunoDave]

Back in the 80's when computers were a lot simpler that today's GUI laden high performance pc's computer viruses were as individual as the programmer that created them.

The viruses were spread from computer to computer by infected disks and were stored in places such as the boot sector on a DOS based machine.

Today the only viruses you hear about are email viruses that seem to only infect Outlook / Outlook Express email clients and that all they seem to do is send a copy of itself to everyone in your address book with an email address by SMTP.

As a result viruses have become pretty boring these days and in some ways is a bit pointless having a virus scanner because as long as you do not use an email client from Microsoft you should be pretty safe from catching it.

C'mon virus writers lets see some orginality in these new viruses so we (the computer users) can have some fun in indentifying and removing such nasties.

By the way this comment is designed to be a bit of fun, I do not condone virus writers to destroy data (or hardware) on other peoples machines.

Dave

[pascal]

Do you WANT virusses?

That's kandda weird.:S
I hate hate virusses, and I hope I will never get one.

I'm affraid, as you can read. Virusses are nothing more then stupid programms who destroy your computer. And that is not what I want.


Pascal

[azlatin2000]

You know something else i hate, Micro$uck instead of using 500k $ to fix their software so it won't be infected by viruses and worms, is giving a reward of any info that leads to the arrest of 1 person who made the lovesan worm. There are millions of virus writers, and what will microsuck do, pay $100 k for the arrest of each one.

[thawebman]

Note: thawebman has been banned following repeated warnings.

micro*** sucks linux is the future

but thre is a problem...
every games is for micro****
and that s*cks ass

[pascal]

Can you also talk normal???


I can't even read that.

[Daybreak_0]

Originally posted by thawebman

microsoft sucks. "linux is the future"

but there is a problem...every game is built for microsoft windows platform and that s*cks ass

Well still a long way to go yet before linux is a real threat. You can't count the die hard linux supporters, and with dot net it will not be long before they are toeing the line. When they can write code that will run on windows machines, and therefore have access to new software users and of course their cash......

Lets face it there is no real money in linux and we live in an increasingly capitalist world. Everyone jumped on the free software bandwagon, but many paid the price when they tried to get software support, it cost them an arm and a leg to get experts. Not so hard or expensive to get MS experts.

Linux may have had a chance if everyone had got behind the company that say they own it, paid for it and allowed them to get organised. It may still happen, but I doubt it. And now we have dot net which brings linux writers back into the fold.

Regards
Day

lol waiting for the flames :)