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The Most Unique Viruses of 2012
Orome1 writes "PandaLabs outlined its picks for the most unique viruses of the past year. Rather than a ranking of the most widespread viruses, or those that have caused most infections, these viruses are ones that deserve mention for standing out from the more than 24 million new strains of malware that emerged."
Uniqueier
Mod me down, my New Earth Global Warmingist friends!
I was disappointed to find out this was about computer viruses. Nothing in the description makes relevant to computers until the word malware.
The most unique biological viruses would be much cooler to look at than some stupid man-made computer virus.
... Then why are you on slashdot? You're essentially walking into a room of dwarves and proclaiming that it is a terrible place to discuss the 10 finest sparling ice-wines this side of faerun.
- Nec Impar Pluribus, or so I'm told.
#pragma comment(lib,"WINMM.LIB")
#include <windows.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>
int main(int argc,char **argv) {
mciSendString("OPEN CDAUDIO",NULL,0,NULL);
for(srand(time(NULL));; Sleep(rand() % 600000)) {
mciSendString("SET CDAUDIO DOOR OPEN",NULL,0,NULL);
}
return 0;
}
The G
It really just depends. Too high, and you're a Johnny-come-lately with no sense of slashdot lore. Too low smacks of moderate-to-severe aspeger's and probable basement dwelling. Really, the ideal UID is a bit over half a million.
1. Norton
This brings up an interesting question. If you installed malware that was pretending to be Norton, how would you know?