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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. Sample code? by SirKron · · Score: 1, Troll

    Oh, when I read this first I thought that Microsoft was distributing the Nimda code as one of thier sample projects. That would be cool, a virus creation wizard. This reminds me of the story a while back about someone modifying a virus to check for security holes so the could be filled.

  2. Microsoft by rice_burners_suck · · Score: 0, Troll

    Bwaaaaaaahaaaaaaahaaaaaaahaaaaahaaaahaaaahaahaha ha hahahah!!

    Microsoft. Where do you want to go today? Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. This virus is valuable intellectual property and is protected by copyright law and international treaty. Do not make illegal copies of this virus.

    FreeBSD rocks.

  3. Is M$ getting into the AV Software business? by Stackis · · Score: 0, Troll
    I would suspect that Micro$hit is getting into the AV Software business...

    Thus releasing this article may help them sell their AV software...

    Anything stupid coming from Micro$hit anymore, does not surprise me...

    They suck and always will...

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  4. Well spent month of Feb by hedley · · Score: 0, Troll


    Looks like that new development shutdown up there to clean stuff up and beef up security was really well spent.

  5. Well it's thier fault! by Moneky-Boy · · Score: 0, Troll

    That's what MS would say. Those slant-eye bastards could never do anything right. We, MS could never make such a mistake. Well unless we bet on the U.S beating Korea! ;-P

  6. This is Obviosly sabotage - by X-Pirate · · Score: 0, Troll

    Stuff like this is bad for everyone. This was obviosly sabotage (just like most of their bugs) Flaming them just encourages more Gates-haters to do shît like this. I think most M$-haters would actually like M$ products if they didn't come from Microsoft. Most peoples' hatred is based on ignorance and brainwashing - like this artical does (if it comes from M$, it must be bad). I'de love for M$ to do a test, and secretly release some software (Open-spurce of course) without letting anyone know that it was developed by M$.

  7. Spellcheck! by Hershmire · · Score: 0, Troll

    More than one virus != viruses
    Virii, people, virii.

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