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Universities Taken Offline to Fight Worms, Viruses
chrismg2003 writes "Nationwide universities are opening their doors to new students but closing off their network services. The Blaster worm has caused universities to take drastic actions to protect their campus networks. Universities have gone as far as shutting down their entire resnet network and bringing it back up dorm-by-dorm after each computer has been certified worm-free. The ICMP ping requests alone have brought down my university's resnet multiple times and we are scrambling to clean the worm from all computers before it forces us to follow suit with other universities."
BUt University are some the hardest places hit because they cannot mandate a remotly updateable virus scanner without getting outcires of privacy invasion.
Tragek
outlaw windows?
just a thought
Don't Tread on OpenSource
Yeah!
That may sound like religious gospel to some, but people using Windows are just about as insensitive to their peers as people who, say, smoke.
(Bandwidth/Air consumption)
The only problem is that running a more secure operating system is either more expensive (Mac OS X), or more difficult (Linux, *BSD). You are not going to be very popular among, oh, say, MBA or Law students once you mandate this restriction.
(Then again, those are perhaps precisely the type of studends we'd be better off without.. hmmm....)
I hate people like you. You can't give even a little bit to stop an infection like this. Afterall, who is benefitting from this? You of course! How can you be so short sighted as not to be able to withstand a few hours without a net connection rather than weeks or months with your connection only operating at ~50% or less capacity because of the bandwidth shortage? You, dear sir, are an idiot. It is people like you who would say during a real disease epidemic, 'No, don't quarantine me! I've been vacinated!'. Even if that is the case, the people maintaining the quarantine need to be assured of that. They can't just take your word for it. I think this is a great idea to treat net epidemics the same way real-world epidemics are treated: quarantine.
Because you actually have application, hardware, and usability on Windows.
"Sufferin' succotash."
Dear Apple,
I am a homosexual. I bought an Apple computer because of its well earned reputation for being "the" gay computer. Since I have become an Apple owner, I have been exposed to a whole new world of gay friends. It is really a pleasure to meet and compute with other homos such as myself. I plan on using my new Apple computer as a way to entice and recruit young schoolboys into the homosexual lifestyle; it would be so helpful if you could produce more software which would appeal to young boys. Thanks in advance.
with much gayness,
Father Randy "Pudge" O'Day, S.J.
I hate to tell you; but unfortunately however, MacIntoshes are not the right computers for recruiting homosexual paedophiles:
The perfect computer for your lifestyle is the WinTel. MicroSoft.Com has been anally raping its users (WinTelLusers) up the butt with its total lack of security for years. If you want to screw a little boy, I recommend letting him use a WinTel -- I guaranty a virus or worm will screw up the WinTel in no time.
Impeach Bush
You're pathetic, and stupid at that.
So it is impossible to write viruses for MacOS X? Would a program that deleted all your files without your permission be considered a virus? Would it not be possible to write a program that simply does that? How would Mac OS X protect you against that?
From your grammar and odd capitalization use, I imagine you are about 12 years old. I think its time you get in bed for school tomorrow.