To celebrate the 25th anniversary of some of the first PC viruses, Slashdot linked to a site where you can get some of the most up to date malware, adware and other infections!?
"Something wonderful is happening" . . . "Your Amiga has come alive"
Unfortunately the DOS was flaky enough as it was. The virus unintentionally ruined disks. No one believed me at first- the message didn't come up again for a couple more weeks so they thought i was crazy.
In 1986, windows was suffering from a virus infestation, a man dressed in business/casual with glasses and a stethoscope appeared, claiming to be a virus scanner. He promised the users a solution for their problem with the malware. The users in turn promised to pay him $29.99 a month for the removal. The man accepted, and played a musical pipe to lure the viruses onto a 5.25" floppy, where all of them quarantined.
Despite his success, the users reneged on their promise, and did a charge-back on their credit c
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of some of the first PC viruses, Slashdot linked to a site where you can get some of the most up to date malware, adware and other infections!?
How festive!
I remember my screen said,
"Something wonderful is happening"
.
.
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"Your Amiga has come alive"
Unfortunately the DOS was flaky enough as it was. The virus unintentionally ruined disks.
No one believed me at first- the message didn't come up again for a couple more weeks so they thought i was crazy.
The solution to this problem has been known for a very long time... it's the principle of least privilege [wikipedia.org].
We've had 25 years to wise up and stop using a "default permit" based system and still haven't done so.
Here's a summary of the situation [ranum.com], for those who want to help push things in the right direction.
My boxii take serious offense to that, you insensitive clod. :)
In 1986, windows was suffering from a virus infestation, a man dressed in business/casual with glasses and a stethoscope appeared, claiming to be a virus scanner. He promised the users a solution for their problem with the malware.
The users in turn promised to pay him $29.99 a month for the removal. The man accepted, and played a musical pipe to lure the viruses onto a 5.25" floppy, where all of them quarantined.
Despite his success, the users reneged on their promise, and did a charge-back on their credit c