I Feel unclean because of MSBLAST.EXE

[lonodnboi2k3]

Hello all, Well  i have had an interesting night. I went over to a friends house for lunch tonight, When i was about to leave he told me that his computer was not working and it kept shutting itself down. Well i thought ok he has a virus..... Then i realised he might have the MSBLAST.EXE virus      

I took a look at his computer and after about 5 mins i had removed the virus from his computer and it was back to normal. bare in mind i had to use the M$ command line (Yuck)
I told him why he had the virus, and that it was due to the crappy OS he had on the system..

Anyway to cut a long story short i kinda feel guilty for removing it as it is one of the few viruses that makes a point on how shite windows is.

I hope this virus teaches a lot of people what kind of OS they are running and hope m$ learns from this. It would be really cool if this was the virus of all viruses to end M$

Thats it for me, Just thought i would share this with you and has anyone eles come across this yet?              

[ August 13, 2003: Message edited by: Londonboi2k3 ]

[jasonlane]

Noooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!

You removed it!!!! Couldn't you make an appointment after the 16th, then replace it with an OS?

[lonodnboi2k3]

lol, I know...... But my friend needs to be on the internet for work and i didnt think   :eek:  But hey i have a few more friends who i have nearly convinced to turn their backs on windows.... Hopefully this will give an added incentive              

[TheQuirk]

IT IS NOT A VIRUS!

IT IS A WORM! A WORM!

WORM!

[jasonlane]

Voles love worms  

[lonodnboi2k3]

I must apoligise, it is not a virus, it is a worm   :eek:    :eek:    :eek:    :eek:        

[lonodnboi2k3]

still feeel unclean  :rolleyes:

[mobrien_12]

The patch was out for a month.  The windoids don't patch their boxes and the systems get cracked.  

You gotta patch your box regularly, nomatter what OS you run.

[jtpenrod]

quote:The patch was out for a month. The windoids don't patch their boxes and the systems get cracked.

Such a tech-savvy bunch, those windoids.   :rolleyes:   Then, again, there are those windoids who are quite familiar with the patchs tendency to break things, or, perhaps, they don't want to agree to any Trojan Horse EULAs. Perhaps this will convince the more tech-savvy windoids to finally make the move to Linux?
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[hm_murdock]

heh. I think MSBlast is at the same time both a huge inconvenience, and A STROKE OF GENIUS.

[Refalm]

It made the Dutch news, which is very cool. I hope Microsoft just fucks off and dies, real hard.

[mobrien_12]

quote:Originally posted by jtpenrod:
Perhaps this will convince the more tech-savvy windoids to finally make the move to Linux?

One can only hope.

[Pissed_Macman]

After this is over people will forget about it and continue to use Winshit. "Oh, good thing Microsoft patched it," they'll say. "Boy, Microsoft sure did a good job of patching it. Linux? Oh, does that count as an operating system? I bet it doesn't have any good games." That's how it'll be.

[Stilly]

quote:Originally posted by Macman:
After this is over people will forget about it and continue to use Winshit. "Oh, good thing Microsoft patched it," they'll say. "Boy, Microsoft sure did a good job of patching it. Linux? Oh, does that count as an operating system? I bet it doesn't have any good games." That's how it'll be.

yeah that sounds about right, My friend said his computer was fucking up so i told him that might be it and he said that cumguzlersoft had fixed it and called me a nerd for knowing about it...

[ShawnD1]

Is this friend a retard or something? Windows updates are on BY DEFAULT. If he doesn't have the updates it means he CHOSE to go unsecure. Turning off automatic updates is like running Linux with no firewall and as root all the time... it's just silly and puts you at risk for no reason. On a side note, why doesn't this friend have a firewall? There are lots of good FREE firewalls for windows.