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New Viruses Hit 30-Month High
Mz6 writes "InformationWeek reports that Sophos has analysed and protected against 959 new viruses in May, this is the highest number of new viruses discovered in a single month since December 2001. From Sophos' own TopTen list they continue on to say that the 'Sasser and Netsky worms may have captured the headlines. ...May has seen a noticeable spike in cybercriminal activity, suggesting that even the arrest of Sven Jaschan ...has done nothing to curb the problem.'"
or where there any for alternative platforms
gotta admire a company that causes billions of dollars of damage to buisness and is able to walk away without a scratch
I'll post this one a href="http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=109118&c id=9270617"> last time sos people can learn from my bad luck. If you're sick of it i apologize, but folk have to know. I changed it a bit so even if you've read before, you might want another look.
Anyway, I'm a semi-regular slashdot reader, and I get mod points quite a lot. Monday was a pretty normal day for me in the IT department where I've worked for 2 years now. I'd finished my work, and am about to head to lunch when I cruise by Slashdot to see what stuff that matters there is, and I see I have mod points, right?
So I set my threshold to -1(cause a good mod looks at it all, sometimes good stuff is dfown there), and go into a newish article, and start modding. I see a couple of stuff that ain't funny and mod that. I see a couple of funny gags about clippy so I mod them up. My boss comes in half way through, so I stop what I'm doing and turn round and talk to him. After a few moments, I can see he's looking at the screen.
Now I hadn't really paid attention to where it was pointing, and it turns out it was on one of those GNAA posts. My boss asks me straight out, what the hells that, or something. I try to explain but he's not satisfied, he reads the word nigger and gay, and he's very dubious of me. He bumps it up to his superior. The next day, I'm sitting in a confrence room speaking to 3 senior boss's trying to explain how come I was viewing a race hate crime website in my work time. I say to them it was my lunchh break which they say is ok then i try to explain Slashdot's like the wild west, at a low level you get all sorts of crazy shit. I'm sweating like mad at this point.
To cut the long short, by today Thursday, I'm out of a f*cking job. My boss thinks I was posting or reading that shit, and now I've got to find something else in this sh*tty job market. What the f am I going to put on my resume about my last job? I get no fucking refrence at all for 2 years work. My f*cking life has been totally ruined by these crapflooding bastards.
If your reading this, you gnaa f****, F*CK OFF BACK TO KUROFIN. If your laughing to yourselfs remember that it is NOT A COMPUTER GAME!!. I am in the shed now because of you, and I hope in your dead hearts you will suffer for what you have done to me. i know loads of stuff and i have the skills to take you down.
I also wanted to say if you're out ther and looking for a talented Perl programmers in the Michigan area, or you just feel sorry for my bad luck and want to get me in for a verbal or physical interview, reply here and I'll give you a contact address, and send you a resume. I am the victim of other people without my professional intergity, and I have leanrt my lesson. Please genuine offers only.
This confirms it. May is a skank.
The promise of m$ applications is that they interact with each other and the OS better than the competition. The trade-off is that your spreadsheet/email client/browser has hooks into the OS that those sorts of applications really don't need and no users ever asked for, but ones that can be readily exploited.
People ask me what I think about outlook, and I must admit it is quite possibly the most efficient means of distributing trojans that has ever been devised. Even on 2000, outlook has root-access to the operating system. Given that older versions of their operating systems only had one level of privilege for all userids, such security problems could and ought to have been expected, but there is no need for outlook (or ie) to have that sort of privileged access to the OS as it does on 2000/xp.
Maybe Tannenbaum is right, and a microkernel is the way to go? Maybe we should take it one step farther and run all applications in jails to effectively limit their access to system resources and one another?
*** Where are we going? And what's with this handbasket?
You looser!
Herpes is the only way too do it!
u dumbass
herpes isnt a virii
They forgot to mention the virus that has infected over 90% of desktops. You all know what I'm talking about.>_>