Virus Authors! - A Rant

[blueg33]

What horrible little oiks fking virus authors are, I can just imageine their little pimply faces pasty skin and greasy hair sitting infront of a computer fiunding ways to waste other people time so that they can brag about it to their slimy greasy wkers they call friends.

I have just spent all sodding morning removing a virus that one of these little toe rags vreated and attached to an email purporting to come from UPS.

Why dont these stupid moronic lowlife nerds go and get a life rather than fking up everyones computer for no more reason that they can. No doubt its because their horrible pasty skin that never sees the sun and their unwashed smelly bodies make normal people stare in revulsion. I bet none of the fking stty wkers has any danger of getting a girlfriend, the nearest they will get to sex is when they get off on having fked up 10,000 pc's.

If i could catch one of these lowlife nerds i would use the blunt end of my mouse and my printer cable to castrate the bugger and cit off his fingers so that he cvant type out another bloody virus.

These scum don't deserve to exist on this planet the little sts should either grow up and get a life or be buried alive in some nice deep hole surrounded by the putrifying corpses of trheir fellow virus writing cretious lowlife mates.

Rant over, but I am still pissed off!

[Silverbullet767]

6/10 Not bad, but I never felt for my own safety at any time, not enough variey of swearing and too little violence.

I'd blame Microsoft for making an operating system that can be attacked like this. You can't stop assholes around the world.

[Road2Ruin]

7/10, I have to dissagree, he managed to string three swear words together. For me though it would have scored higher with a better threat of physical violence and more comedy. Didn't the moose do a scale or something that these could be rate on or guidlines for a good one?

[blueg33]

It was my first rant! Will try harder in future!

[CommanderJameson]

blueg33 said:

...fking up everyones computer for no more reason that they can.

Actually, it's almost certainly true these days that they got paid for it, which, according to PH lore, is just about the best reason to do anything.

[mondeoman]

CommanderJameson said:

blueg33 said:

...fking up everyones computer for no more reason that they can.

Actually, it's almost certainly true these days that they got paid for it, which, according to PH lore, is just about the best reason to do anything.

WTF?!

[wiffmaster]

Big money in viruses. Google for 'botnets'. If you have one of the bigger botnets, you can rent it out or hold sites to ransom for an absolute fortune. £1000s to be made whilst you sleep....

[Engineer1]

Virus checker and definitions update failure or unprotected surfing?

[Ordinary_Chap]

The Zeus bot for sale is fascinating, particular with the anti-copying functions.

http://www.secureworks.com/research/threats/zeus/?...

Selling bot's is an absolutely massive business these days.

[Big Rod]

I've always found it odd that when reading the libraries that came/comes with virusguaed applications that many of the viruses the package protected against had release dates against them sometime int he future.

Stinks really.

[randlemarcus]

Just a thought - we've had a decent amount of outrage about the Gubbermint taking folk offline who download illegal MP3 files and such. What would the feeling be about takedown orders for anyone stupid enough not to be running any AV/Malware software?

[blueg33]

Engineer1 said:

Virus checker and definitions update failure or unprotected surfing?

I have AVG, Spybot and windows firewall all up to date and running. The firs tyhing the virus did was turn off the firewall and spybot, AVG caught the virus seconds after but by then it had changed the registry so that AVG, Malawarebytes and spybot wouldnt run properly. Task manager was disabled and restore points were removed. This all took it about 15 seconds in total.

Malawarebytes ran in safe mode showed 4 trojans and 12 changes to the registry. To fix, it needed in safe mode a quick scan and a deep scan rebooted after each plus a scan in normal mode. The whole lot wasted an hour of my time.

Edited by blueg33 on Friday 19th March 16:47

[Olivero]

• NOT A MAC FANBOY*

I have to say not having to worry about viruses is a major reason for me using Macs.

• NOT A MAC FANBOY*

[Ordinary_Chap]

Olivero said:

*NOT A MAC FANBOY*

I have to say not having to worry about viruses is a major reason for me using Macs.

• NOT A MAC FANBOY*

So why post something that is unrelated to the subject in hand?

Besides virues are a minor issue on a well configured machine and it would appear OSX's malware is on the rise.

Apple even admit as much having written a anti-malware module for the platform.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=5731&tag=wr...

[Olivero]

Ordinary_Chap said:

Olivero said:

*NOT A MAC FANBOY*

I have to say not having to worry about viruses is a major reason for me using Macs.

• NOT A MAC FANBOY*

So why post something that is unrelated to the subject in hand?

Besides virues are a minor issue on a well configured machine and it would appear OSX's malware is on the rise.

Apple even admit as much having written a anti-malware module for the platform.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=5731&tag=wr...

Only posting because I think it is a shame Microsoft don't do more to get rid of viruses. No matter how you look at it this is damaging Microsoft's brand.

[otolith]

As I understand it, this was an emailed executable file, which relies on the user being fooled into running it.

[randlemarcus]

Olivero said:

Only posting because I think it is a shame Microsoft don't do more to get rid of viruses. No matter how you look at it this is damaging Microsoft's brand.

So, aside from introducing the UAC (which most people turn off), enforcing kernel mode operations (which causes most software companies to say boo, no more shortcuts), releasing their own free AV (cue McAfee et al going boo), releasing a firewall as part of the OS (cue McAfee et al going boo), enforcing anti-muppetry in user programs such as Outlook, bringing transparent antimalware into IE (antiphishing and safe downloads), how would you, personally, suggest that they get around the facts that 1)As the biggest target, they get stuff written for them, and 2)most users of PCs dont give a damn about online security(and nor should they have to)

[Ordinary_Chap]

Olivero said:

Ordinary_Chap said:

Olivero said:

*NOT A MAC FANBOY*

I have to say not having to worry about viruses is a major reason for me using Macs.

• NOT A MAC FANBOY*

So why post something that is unrelated to the subject in hand?

Besides virues are a minor issue on a well configured machine and it would appear OSX's malware is on the rise.

Apple even admit as much having written a anti-malware module for the platform.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=5731&tag=wr...

Only posting because I think it is a shame Microsoft don't do more to get rid of viruses. No matter how you look at it this is damaging Microsoft's brand.

Microsoft have done massive amounts to try and sort out the virus problems but their actions have been severely limited by competition watchdogs.

However they were told recently they could release a free AV client which they have done in 'Microsoft Essentials' which wasn't allowed before.

They have also gone to great lengths to take down bot nets recently like the below;

http://blogs.technet.com/mmpc/archive/2010/03/15/w...

[CommanderJameson]

Ordinary_Chap said:

Besides virues are a minor issue on a well configured machine and it would appear OSX's malware is on the rise.

What malware is that, then?

[Ordinary_Chap]

CommanderJameson said:

Ordinary_Chap said:

Besides virues are a minor issue on a well configured machine and it would appear OSX's malware is on the rise.

What malware is that, then?

See the link.