Visual Studio .Net: Now with more Viruses

News.com breaks the story (and 8000 readers submit) that Microsoft distributed Nimda-infected copies of Visual Studio .Net in Korea. I don't even know what to say here; nothing seems adequate, except to point out that "trustworthy computing" does not seem to have had any effect whatsoever. News.com just updated their story to point out that it probably won't infect the people who installed Visual Studio .Net, but it's still a rather nasty faux pas for a company that's supposed to be cleaning up its act.

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World Cup Korea

[The Ape With No Name]

Well, I was sitting at home the other day, watching Korea tie the US, and I thought, "Y'know, in that stadium there must be 65000 screaming Koreans. At least 10 of them are partially responsible for all of the Nimbda traffic I see and twice that many are responsible for the various Dick Cream spams I get each day." I should have known it had nothing to do with slack ass Korean sysadmins and had everything to do with Redmond. Everytime I fall into that trap, Gates bails me out....