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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.
Did McAfee or Norton give this press release?
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"breakable"
:-)
or maybe that doesn't quite say it. Hmmm, what am I trying to get at.
"trivially breakable"
It only infects one file that's never referenced by the system, and there are all sorts of unlikelihoods that prevent this from being executed. Still, bad press is bad press.
If they only had been using a Walmart Lindows box......
The guy who wrote that virus should sue Microsoft for distributing it without his permission. We're talking about theft of intellectual property here!
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
Hell, nimda is a better feature than that stupid paperclip thing!
None of your shoddy open-source crap here, no sir!
Carousel is a lie!
I'ts not a virus/spyware.. it's a feature that enhances your web experience.
"You probably won't get any viruses from installing our software!"
-Restil
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"breakable"
or maybe that doesn't quite say it. Hmmm, what am I trying to get at.
"trivially breakable"
In this case, "broken" is what your looking for.
Morons.
Leave out the middleman when it comes to distibuting viruses! Give it straight to your customers!
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A spokes person from Microsoft was quoted as saying "This is the best chance we have at cleaning up our image."
They already gave them .NET, how far do you expect MS to go?
Have you ever been to Korea, you moron? Those people are absolute technophiles. They love all of the newest little electronic gadgets. They're not always the highest quality little gadgets, but everybody has them. Koreans are not aborigonees living in a wasteland. They live in big, crowded cities like most of us, except they're usually bigger (the Seoul/Inchon area alone has something obscene like 14 million people) and they have lots more concrete (if you had ever been to Korea, you would know what I am talking about). You need to leave your momma's basement a little more often.
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So how do we tell "Genuine Microsoft Quality Products" from "Shoddy Software Created By Third Parties And Put Out By Microsoft"? Is the hologram a different color or something?
Viral Studio .NET??
actually have to install IE 5.5 over IE 6 (why would anyone do that) and browse a certain help file in order for it to get infected.
It's this whole voodoo-superstition shit that makes me really hate Windows. "Apply service pack 23ase, reboot twice, pray to the sun gods, upgrade DirectX, and walk twice clockwise around the computer".
Bullshit, total bullshit. Ask a Windows user which Windows kernel version they are running sometime, if you want an example.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
This is just another example of Microsoft trying to bundle everything with windows. Now that they are bundling Nimda, Melissa is going to go right out of business.
Truly, life indeed imitates art(satire). Microsoft Bundles Worm with IIS .
I only post comments when someone on the internet is wrong.
How would you know they'd fixed IE if they didn't distribute a virus that no longer worked?
Now, instead of meaning it ships with no viruses, it means they include them at no extra charge!
And in other news, an Pakistani foreign national was detained in New York City today for what officials are calling "a suspected case of viral bioterrorism". The man, Rumollea Abdula Jabala, 30, was reported to be "coughing and sneezing", and "blowing his nose" by onlookers, who promptly called officials to report the situation.
Jabala, who came to America on a work Visa, denies official reports that he deliberately caught the flu to infect persons in the USA whom he would come in contact with.
Jabala is currently being held in a city hospital, under armed guard, until officials can verify any terrorist links.
They're worried about the viral nature of the GPL?
Move on. There's nothing to see here.
Like this? =)
The latest release of Nimda has been infected with the Visual Studio.NET virus.
When I read this article, the banner ad was for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET.
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It's that kind of policy that keeps me reading
...M$ includes a really efficient piece of code with their compilers.
Now with improved networking support! :)