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Looking Back At the Other Kind of Virus
Slatterz writes "All this panic over a strain of flu got these people thinking about some of the more virulent computer pandemics that have hit in recent years. While a computer virus pales in seriousness to a human outbreak, malware attacks can still take a huge toll on businesses throughout the world. This list of the top ten worst viruses includes some interesting trivia, including ARPANET's Creeper virus in 1971, how early attempts at copy protection resulted in Brain, and MyDoom's denial of service attack on SCO."
At last, an article from a major outlet that doesn't break up into ten seperate pages, one for each item, all in hopes of getting more page/ad views. :)
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
after #3. MyDoom, there's no jump, no next page, just the copy right notice, am i missing something?
Anywho, these viruses remind me of a kinder, gentler time when lemonade was real and the danger wasn't, when we had to boot our machines up hill, both ways in the snow, and yada yada yada. Good piece of nostalgia, but I'd be interested to see #2 and #1.
Is it sad that I am more likely to recognize you and your posts by your sig than your name or UID?
You are aware that the Conficker worm spread over infected flash drives with autorun enabled right?
The real worry is that a computer virus will make the leap into the human population.
Well they already use humans as a medium of transmission.
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Well, virus is not really the proper word for most of what is infecting people anymore. It's malware, spyware, and trojans.
However, you design a destructive virus to hit public infrastructures and medical facilities and it might as serious or more than a biological virus.
What's there to be clear about? The Apple II and the modern Mac are both crap. :-)
It's evolved past that I'm afraid. Now it's about the largest install base, most subversive antivirus evasion techniques, and best functionality for botnet resale to the criminal underground.
Not the biggest e-peen, but the biggest payout.
The single biggest rule I use is. "Which language am I speaking?".
If the answer is English, then who cares from which language the word originated, and how that language may or may not have pluralised it?
In English, we append '-s' or '-es', so if in doubt, do that.
Doing so may not be correct all the time, but at least when it's wrong it looks like a simple mistake, rather than pretentious hyper-correction.
Advanced users are users too!
good thing I explicitly disable autorun for every Windows computed I've ever configured for someone.
A. Virii is cooler.
B. The ancient attempt to force Latin grammar rules on English needs to be done away with. Split infinitives and ending sentences in prepositions may be crimes in Latin but are perfectly fine in English.
And some people need to stop being latin-grammar nazis.
"I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist"
Split infinitives and ending sentences in prepositions may be crimes in Latin but are perfectly fine in English.
"This is the sort of English up with which I will not put"
"And some people need to stop being latin-grammar nazis"
I think some people need to stop thinking that throwing the word 'nazi' in here and there makes for a valid argument or somehow proves a point.
"A. Virii is cooler."
Ignorance is never cool. I'm not being judgemental to people who simply didn't know something; I only know stuff because someone thought to tell me, or thought to put the information somewhere I could find. No one can know everything, but that doesn't exclude scope for correction. Learning is way cooler.
The revolution will not be televised... but it will have a page on Wikipedia