£10,000 Prize for Linux Virus Challenge Re-Issued

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£10,000 Prize for Linux Virus Challenge Re-Issued

Posted by CmdrTaco on Saturday October 13, 2001 @03:45AM from the take-two dept.

mutantcamel writes "Eddie Bleasdale, the director of NetProject has been offering £10,000 to the first hacker to infect his Linux machine with a virus for the last two years, and so far no one has hit the jackpot. He's re-announced his challenge to virus writers following a Gartner report which told IT depts. not to trust MS server software because of recent worm attacks on their servers, but a Microsoft exec said yesterday that the hugely successful worm attacks were due to 'tardy' sysadmins."

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Show me the money! by Dirty+Sanchez+King · 2001-10-13 03:48 · Score: 0, Offtopic

How much does the British Pound weight?

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You have something above your lip.
1. Re:Show me the money! by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-13 04:09 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Jon, it's always so obvious when you post as AC.
2. Re:Show me the money! by ajuda · 2001-10-13 04:20 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  > How much does the British Pound weight?
  
  The same as ours... 16 ounces
3. Re:Show me the money! by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-13 05:22 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  I want Rusty to fuck me
  
  BAD, really bad
Re:HIV is the AIDS homo virus by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-13 04:00 · Score: -1, Offtopic

except a lot of heterosexual people got it too... :(
Re:MS is in a tough spot by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-13 04:33 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Anyone care to explain why this flamebait was modded up? Gay open sores...
4th Amandment by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-13 05:12 · Score: -1, Offtopic

The Constitution is NOT a suicide pact.
As much as your liberal mind would like to believe so, the new anti-terrorist legislation does not violate the Constitution.
Even if it did, at times like this shutting down certain parts of it serve a purpose. The people who wrote the Constitution could never have imagined that inhuman people like the Islamic terrorists would exist some day. Therefore, it must be interpreted and modified according to the reality.
If the homeland security demands restrictions on some of our (so called) rights, then so be it.
1. Re:4th Amandment by Glytch · 2001-10-13 05:23 · Score: 1, Offtopic
  
  The Constitution is NOT a suicide pact.
  
  And quotes from Tom Clancy books are hardly divine wisdom.
2. Re:4th Amandment by firewort · 2001-10-13 07:30 · Score: 1, Offtopic
  
  only I don't know which part of what I wrote resembled some Tom Clancy quote. I wrote my comment without assistance or plagarizing, because my thoughts are my own.
  
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micrsoft is GAY by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-13 05:34 · Score: -1, Offtopic

thats it all MicroSoft Is GAY and its there own falt for making default installation of IIS on the root of a drive. also its also there fault there so many low level incompitent admins in the world point and click to an over paid moron.

MY DUECE CENTS.
Mod parent down by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-13 05:41 · Score: -1, Offtopic

rzbx is a troll, as can clearly be seen from this post. Please mod him down accordingly.
Assertion Failed: Tardy != Retard by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-13 05:43 · Score: -1, Offtopic

if somebody is tardy then they are redarded.
Once and again by Husaria · 2001-10-13 05:50 · Score: -1, Offtopic

"Those who exchange their liberties for temporary security, deserve neither"
So, what you're saying is now we should be a police state? Is this the chance you've been waiting for now? To let the government basically go and look at anyone they deem suspucious. Am I gonna be scanned now because I posted on a site that criticizes the American government?
I'm sorry to say, but we may have won the Cold War, but we are becoming more like what we defeated

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Slashdot Hypocrisy at work?
Re:HIV is the AIDS homo virus by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-13 05:52 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Yeah, but they must have associated with a homo at some point, or with a hetero who did, or... etc...

Religious folk are used to "logic" like this, and think it justifies all sorts of idiocy.

Rmembmer folks, the sins of the fathers will be visited upon the children, and the children's children, even unto the seventh genration!

Can't fault logic like that! No sir!
Re:Tardy == Retarded by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-13 05:56 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Hey cockengulfer

He said 'tards which is obviously (unless someone is fucking stupid like you obviously are) shorthard for the noun retard...

diediedie
First Dildo Post!!! by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-13 06:19 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Mad propz to gay homo buttsex.

:o)
i shit in your general direction by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-13 06:51 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I was going to just fart, but I had some bad mexican food last night, so...