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Visual Studio .Net: Now with more Viruses

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the trustworthy-computing dept.

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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  1. Re:Virus day? by goldspider · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    They must have realized how well it's worked for McAfee and Symantec and decided to give it a go themselves :)

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  2. Speechless... by peterdaly · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I have never seen so many one or two liner post after a slashdot article.

    This may be the first time Slashdot readers are left speechless.

    -Pete

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  3. Re:I've been hammered by these by talks_to_birds · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    • "Some of my web pages have pacific keywords, so I've bounced more than my fair share of these to the FTC and other spam and abuse websites."

    Excuse me? What?

    t_t_b

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