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Four Kids Confess to Goner Worm

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hope-they-get-grounded-with-no-dinner dept.

imrdkl writes: "4 kids in Israel have confessed to writing and distributing the Goner worm, according to Fox." Yet another annoying worm comes and goes, wasting countless IT hours, to say nothing of bandwidth. The kids face up to five years -- of course since they aren't in the U.S., they might actually be punished.

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  1. Goners by qwerty823 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I guess they will be "goner"s real soon.

  2. Here's the other side of this coin. by Matey-O · · Score: 2, Redundant

    After reading throug 30 odd messages that a) slammed Exchange/Outlook/Microsoft or b) said 'Hey, NBD, they're just kids!'

    Here's a little bit of the flipside:

    Our Exchange server weathered it just fine. Why? Because it's running Trend Micro's scanner, and it punts everything but TXT and ZIP files.

    The last three virii that ran through the net DIDN'T affect us. We've got 1200 workstations, 60 odd servers, and _6_ admins. (and a 6 member Help Desk)

    A Microsoft shop CAN be protected, it CAN avoid this crap, and you CAN run an enterprise on these products with a small staff.

    CRIPES!

    Further, the poor little kid is just playing around. Bullshit. There are a bunch of businesses having a hard enough time STAYING IN BUSINESS. They SHOULDN'T HAVE to deal with the financial burden of bouncing and disinfecting their infrastructure.

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    "Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus."
  3. Re:punishment should be... by (startx) · · Score: 0, Redundant

    cruel and unusual punishment? on wait, they aren't in the US, go ahead!

  4. Re:Fixing the staff problem by Typingsux · · Score: 4, Redundant
    Well....

    At least in my company, the first person to send this out (company name to remain anonymous.) was the CTO

    This is not a lie or an exaggeration. Our companies CTO was the first damn fool to send it.

    I'll now read the rest of this thread to see other replies.

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