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madluther

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Microsoft offers bounty for worm writers
« on: 5 November 2003, 17:27 »
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« Reply #1 on: 5 November 2003, 17:33 »
Someone ought to offer a bounty on Bill Gates's head.
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« Reply #2 on: 5 November 2003, 19:54 »
Why stop at Bill? Let
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« Reply #3 on: 5 November 2003, 20:38 »
I don't like  his friend  forgot his name.  He is just as bad at trashing linux.      :mad:    He is  saying all these things about linux this bold guy.

[ November 05, 2003: Message edited by: TuxLinux ]

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« Reply #4 on: 6 November 2003, 00:27 »
Why not offer those $250,000 for everyone who uncovers a new Windows flaw??  :D
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« Reply #5 on: 6 November 2003, 00:32 »
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Why not offer those $250,000 for everyone who uncovers a new Windows flaw??


They may have a lot of money, but THAT much?
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« Reply #6 on: 6 November 2003, 07:09 »
Indeed?  How caan one offer a bounty when it was ones own fault?  Thats almost as proposterus as Geroge Forman makeing a badly  made grill and then blames people who found better uses for it.
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« Reply #7 on: 6 November 2003, 19:08 »
Wouldn't it be intersting to see M$'s plan backfire? I think there's a possibility here that this new reward will actually make more virus writers get to work - and get caught on purpose. What better way to drain MS of their money? Someone writes a virus and has a friend or someone report them. Friend makes tons of money, and the programmer gets a share of it when he's released from prison if he makes it there in the first place. Would be like cyber-corporate suicide bombers.
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« Reply #8 on: 7 November 2003, 06:09 »
Nah, Microsoft will probably hire the virius writers when they catch them
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« Reply #9 on: 30 January 2004, 05:17 »
Update: Microsoft just offered a quarter of a million dollars for the head of the Doom virus author.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1212&e=3&u=/ap/20040129/ap_on_hi_te/internet_virus&sid=95573501
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« Reply #10 on: 30 January 2004, 06:49 »
Why the #$%^ are people STILL clicking on mystery email attachments?
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« Reply #11 on: 30 January 2004, 21:37 »
check this out.. this from a talk back from zdnet.com

    
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Don't take his word, ask Bill Gates

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-5147945.html

"A high-volume system like (Windows) that has been
thoroughly tested will be by far the most secure,"

Gates said that in some ways, "hackers are good for
maturation" of the platform, because they have forced the
company to develop new inspection techniques for the
code.

So shouldn't Gates be paying that $250,000 to the virus
writers, after all, they're helping the "maturation" of
Windows.

Posted by: tic swayback    Posted on: 01/30/04"


this are the people going to keep supporting microsoft..  i hate them every moment of it, WHY IN THE FUCK THIS PEOPLE ACCEPT MICROSOFT FLAWS ?
*ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i hate them.

[ January 30, 2004: Message edited by: mc0282 ]

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« Reply #12 on: 30 January 2004, 23:10 »
I have to tell people over and over: "It's not normal for an operating system to give you a BSOD at the first sign of trouble.".
But I guess it takes a few years before they understand that Linux is way better.
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« Reply #13 on: 30 January 2004, 23:38 »
Does anybody else think of the cowboy bebop movie?

Just wondering.
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« Reply #14 on: 31 January 2004, 00:44 »
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Originally posted by TuxLinux:
I don't like  his friend  forgot his name.  He is just as bad at trashing linux.       :mad:     He is  saying all these things about linux this bold guy.

[ November 05, 2003: Message edited by: TuxLinux ]


Darl McBride, CEO of SCO?

Yeah I hate that bastard too.  :mad:
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