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Microsoft Infected by Virus
Vicissidude writes "It appears that a Microsoft worker returning from overseas brought back a case of Measles with them. In fact, they had been back, working, and spreading the disease at Microsoft and other places in Redmond for at least four days prior to being discovered. Somehow I do not think that Microsoft included in their cost-benefit analysis of offshoring the potential wide-spread infection of their company. Perhaps they should include that risk in the future."
And Bill Gates thought OS was viral.
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
I'll bet that before they send anybody overseas again they'll install some good anti-virus software in them.
http://www.rootstrikers.org/
No...wait for the dupe a few days later.
Measles.A
The latest Slashdot meme.
I'm disappointed the /. editors didn't change the usual borg picture for one with nice red spots on it ...
MEASLES BELIEVED TO BE FIRST VIRUS UNABLE TO SPREAD THROUGH MICROSOFT OUTLOOK
Researchers Shocked to Finally Find Virus That Email App Doesn't Like
Atlanta, Ga. - Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Symantec's AntiVirus Research Center today confirmed that Measles cannot be spread by Microsoft's Outlook email application, believed to be the first time the program has ever failed to propagate a major virus.
"Frankly, we've never heard of a virus that couldn't spread through Microsoft Outlook, so our findings were, to say the least, unexpected," said Clive Sarnow, director of the CDC's infectious disease unit.
The study was immediately hailed by US officials, who said it will save millions of dollars and thousands of man hours. "Up until now we have, quite naturally, assumed that measles, like every other virus, was spread by Microsoft Outlook," said Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns. "By eliminating it, we can focus our resources elsewhere."
However, researchers in the Hong Kong said they are not yet prepared to disqualify Outlook, which has been the progenitor of viruses such as "I Love You," "Bubbleboy," "Anna Kournikova," and "Naked Wife," to name but a few.
Said Xi Ti Choo, director of the Molecular Virology Lab at Hong Kong University: "It's not that we don't trust the research, it's just that as scientists, we are trained to be skeptical of any finding that flies in the face of established truth. And this one flies in the face like a blind drunk sparrow."
Executives at Microsoft, meanwhile, were equally skeptical, insisting that Outlook's patented Virus Transfer Protocol (VTP) has proven virtually pervious to any virus. The company, however, will issue a free VTP patch if it turns out the application is not vulnerable to measles.
Such an admission would be embarrassing for the software giant, but Symantec virologist Ariel Kologne insisted that no one is more humiliated by the study than she is. "Only last week, I had a reporter ask if the measles virus spreads through Microsoft Outlook, and I told him, 'Doesn't everything?'" she recalled. "Who would've thought?"
"I hope SP3 fixes this..."
or
" I don't know what I'll do if I have to wait for SP3 to fix this."
Which is it?
Yup. Slashdot bookmark deleted.
as soon that Microsoft learned of the virus and the threat it posed, they quickly notified all the necessary people that they would have a patch in place to hand out (for a small fee to anyone caught with Win2K on their computers, the XP users would have to pass the Microsoft Genuine Advantage test, and prove that they did infact work there) to the employees. They said to expect it in about 6-14 months.
Also worth noting, Bill Gates is one of the world's biggest funders of measles research programs.
"Honey, I do wish you wouldn't bring your work home with you!"
Maybe there's another article, but the one linked in the summary doesn't mention anything about this person being an MS employee. It only says the person was at the MS cafeteria.
This is anti-Microsoft FUD at its best.
Counter-headline: "PENGUIN GETS RABIES, INFECTS FIREFOX."
-David
Well since no-one cares at all about risk management or considering for a second that it might be a good idea to think about small steps to help prevent illness when traveling abroad, I might as well just make up something funny.
Arguing with a stoner is like:
Lighting a toke with a wet match. There's no spark and the match just gets mad.
Banging your head against a pillow and hoping it will take a new shape.
Trying to fill a marshmallow with smaller marshmallows - Your opponent is just as empty of content as when you started.
Eating as many live crickets as you can without a stomach.
Peace Dude.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I've a solution for this: Offshore all IT operations to India.. so there'll be no travel.. no risk.
Well maby trojan's in their wallet.
(out of date though, never got to use them)
Using Microsoft's exciting new BorgLite technology, employees will begin automatically downloading the new anti-virus Service Pack 3 to their wetware immediately (note: patchsize may break older models)! Who needs vaccines when you have Automatic Updates? ;)
Slashdot is dying! ...happy now?
No, wait... you missed the point. It's about Worm.Measles.B brought back inside the laptop...
Now, mod me down freely. My karma can't get any worse...
What is this facts thing I keep hearing about?
maybe its time you start to swallow
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In Microsoft Russia they don't examine your heads... they REMOVE them.
* 10,000 + specialized erotogenic nerve endings are permanently severed and lost
* The male loses about 40 % of his sensitivity
So if I still had my foreskin, I'd cum even quicker? I don't think my wife would like that at all.
In other news Linus Torvalds catches the common cold showing Linux is much more susceptible to basic vulnerabilities than Windows is. Proving once and for all Windows is more secure than Linux.
So I agree with just about everyone--BS article.