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Gamespy Installer Spreads Nimda
NSG writes "Yahoo News is running this story about the Nimda virus infecting some Gamespy Arcade 1.09 installers. Approximately 3,100 infected files were served in a seven hour period. What responsibility does Gamespy have to the users who downloaded the infected file?"
I was one of the original Gamespy employees from a few years ago, and I never thought I'd see Gamespy as the subject of a /. story. It just goes to show, before long everything ends up on this site. ;)
It doesn't surprise me in the least that this has occured, though I hate to bash on my old company (especially since when I left, I left with enough stock to really want the company to succeed, or liquidate and get it over with, hehe.) Truth be told, the company has always been run by a man who truly couldn't care less about customers, a development manager who can't understand why you don't call virtuals from a constructor, and a project lead who thinks UI coding is the end-all-be-all of computer science. Put them together and you end up with very little experience trying to manage a product that has long since outlived its usefulness.
And before you flame me or whatever, I do know a little bit about which I speak... having written much of the original Arcade myself (though I'm not too proud of the outcome, having followed its progress since I left in '00.)
All in all, you can continue to expect inferior product from an inferior company, shameful as it is. I often lament on how things might have changed were L-Fire and I given a little more freedom to get stuff done. C'est la vie.
/me waits to get flamed by crt and Walla now
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Doesn't matter, as a whole, we are moving to a 'computer' mono-culture. Every app is being ported to everything, hell, my palm runs gameboy, and has a simple dos prompt.
with all of linux's efforts it's only a matter of time someone writes a virii designed to abuse all the windows compatibility software (read:wine), or codes a hybrid.
eventually no one will care which OS we run, like now, in the handheld market, we don't care which Processor we run. we have ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, SH, and X86.
It will come down to speed, and at thaat time, everything will talk to each other and virii won't care. it's the future.
As for permissions, how many newbies will actually run a linux box on a sub user? hell, every XP box I see is run in admin mode. no newbie cares what a particular person or app needs access to... they want plug and play, which means no logging in or out to install crap.
So there.
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