Comments on: Blaster Master fire storm

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 05:14:18 +0000

jerome what city are you from

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 22:12:13 +0000

Seems everyone has to work extra hours fixing Microsofts trash every few months anyways, this is no different. And thats even without the worms.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 15 Aug 2004 17:57:37 +0000

I rule and you suck. Shut up. All of you.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 15 Aug 2004 10:07:32 +0000

What we have to realize is that his biggest crime was to cost companies( big business) money. In America this is the best way of gaining immediate federal attention. Simply beating, raping and murdering would have gotten much less attention unless done on a grand scale. I have a lot more problem with the goofs who spread the spam which cost me time and money. I really enjoy the pop-ups that essentially threaten to keep popping up so long as we don’t purchase their software to prevent…. pop-ups. If the lad had only harmed Microsoft he would likely have been hailed as a hero among many of the internet crowd…myself included. The unfortunate part of his actions is the fact that the powers that be will use actions such as this to justify even greater monitoring of the internet(us). Between the hackers and the terrorists, the feds will eventually have reason enough to put the monitors on everything we do. Fact is… they practically do already. The only thing slowing them down now is that pesky little problem of the American Constitution. But alas…sooner or later they will use these reasons to get around that too.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 15 Aug 2004 05:39:30 +0000

People that spend time thinking of wys to harm others, either physical, emotional, psychologicol, finacial or any other way that disrupts the flow of life should be prepared for the consequences. I am sure that they where thinking of the consequences at the time they where thinking of the crime.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 15 Aug 2004 05:16:33 +0000

Hi I’m an anonymous coward called Jerome Santos. I think a lot of this kind of crap would never even happen if more people out there used GNU/LINUX instead of windows. The fact that 90some% of you people use the same isecure, bug ridden flawed system is the real root of the problem. Try using linux some time’ its not prone to infection, and its way more advanced and powerful…and its FREE.
I’m not condoning what these guys have done with their viruses here, I’m just saying that when people trust something like windows on their computers, they’re almost asking for it. And yeah, it wouldn’t hurt that dude to get on a treadmill once in a while; its good for all of us.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 15 Aug 2004 05:11:41 +0000

This is a bullshit sentence to cover up the fact they never bothered to find the original perpetrator. They just want the general public moron to have that cozy feeling of “good they caught THE GUY”. He ain’t the guy and sine he is a teenager they should spank him and let him go. If corporations lost millions as a result thats too bad. He is a taxpayer, and they aren’t.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 15 Aug 2004 04:28:26 +0000

Loosers, use linux, linux rulez!!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 15 Aug 2004 03:56:43 +0000

Yeah, like sendmail

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 15 Aug 2004 03:54:37 +0000

$1,000,000 per violation per virus. That should stop the onslaught of new ons every day.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 15 Aug 2004 01:23:05 +0000

Government and big corporations should concider hiring “kids” like this to work for them. This way they will have the “brains” of the society on their side rather then being pissed at them, writing more viruses to avenge each-other.

Thank you.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 15 Aug 2004 01:21:11 +0000

bingo!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 15 Aug 2004 01:20:38 +0000

You are completely nuts.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 15 Aug 2004 01:19:31 +0000

48,000 hosts (i’m sure this is an estimate). Like this is even comparable to the current netwise hostcount. Those who can’t use their head enough to manage patching / firewalling on their own boxes deserve to be owned. Its a price you pay for ignorance.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 14 Aug 2004 21:33:54 +0000

They should both be taken out and shot. They are terrorists that use computers instead of guns and bombs. I am an engineer at a small aerospace mfg company who also has the job of dealing with 30-some PCs on the corp network. Every time I have to deal with a worm or virus our company loses money. It’s like that everywhere.

The last bagel worm cost me about 6 hours I could have been doing billable work. Multiply that by every company in the USA and what do you get?

If you ask me, cyber terrorists should get the death penalty.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 14 Aug 2004 21:20:27 +0000

From what i’ve seen and read I can’t believe people are getting so fired up now, about something that has been a growing problem for years. It seems that now the politicians have a figurehead on which to place all the misguided hatred towards ’shadowy’ PC users. What we need here is not harsher sentencing or finger pointing, we need to de-mystify technology, better educate people as to how to secure their systems and not rely so heavily on manufacturers claims of security. When you go to buy a car, do you walk up, purchase get in and drive it away? No, you insist on Log Books, safety check records etc etc.

Do the same for your PC. If you have gigs worth of Documents/MP3’s etc, then you know how valuable your PC is so why sit back and leave it open? If you know most of your work/entertainment is on your PC, and that data is irreplacable then you do your damnest to protect it. Stop being so lazy, relying on software to be 100% bullet-proof, read the tech sites, update regularly and stop blaming other people for your own stupidity and niavety.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 14 Aug 2004 11:31:08 +0000

Man, the point is that those who wrote shoddy software that allows this kind of easy tampering should go to jail, not kids like him. The people who spend tons of money that can’t even take care of their intranet are just worthless. Man, Money does talk in this country. No wonder GWB is going to get re-elected — he’s counting on those suckers …

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 14 Aug 2004 10:23:04 +0000

If he had a business this would be called spam or the like and we would keep on marching to the keyboard clicks.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 14 Aug 2004 08:28:32 +0000

I totally agree.

I have been going through this for five years now. The time is now to set the example and let the rest know that you will pay for your actions.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 14 Aug 2004 08:19:50 +0000

How can you say that. If you have worked with any o/s you know that auto update is not the answer. In fact, would you trust your production environment to AUTOUPDATE. I wouldn’t hire you if you did.

The manufacture is not responsible for this crap. The person who wrote the virus is.

Simple, if you left your front door unlocked and someone broke into your house, who are the police going to arrest?