Posted Thursday 26th March 2009 19:58 GMT
Oh, for heaven's sake; it's language like that that portrays people who turn in criminals in a bad light. Leave that kind of language to the wrongdoers, please.
How about "Smith had been persuaded that his best interests lay in helping law enforcement to catch other criminals". Not as catchy, but closer to the truth.
Sodding journos, eh?
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Posted Thursday 26th March 2009 19:58 GMT
...anyone know what happened to the girl who called herself gigabyte?
Posted Thursday 26th March 2009 19:58 GMT
Got no end of grief when this virus got out.
No prizes for guessing her name !!
(She uses Ubuntu now)
Posted Thursday 26th March 2009 19:58 GMT
I worked on a corporate helpdesk at HP when Melissa first hit. Inbound calls to us nearly overwhelmed the Avaya switch - we shared lines with other desks in the facility, but ours had by far the largest user base. The telecom folks reconsidered their 'worst case' allocation plans after that one.
Posted Thursday 26th March 2009 20:22 GMT
The next time you visit your proctologist, you might want to have him try to find the stick.
Posted Thursday 26th March 2009 23:56 GMT
... who's application and operating system did this affect?
And what has changed since then?
Posted Thursday 26th March 2009 23:56 GMT
who wrote the WinWord.Concept virus?
That was the first Word Macro virus, and ushered in the huge expansion of viruses into high-level languages, being writen in Word Macros.
It appeared in 1995, shortly after W95 release, and shortly after the AV community had been bombarding Microsoft with calls to make their macro language less easy to write malicious code in. Microsoft ignored all their calls, but shortly afterwards I understand that this 'test' virus was found to be spread all over internal Microsoft offices, and thence into the world.
Everyone assumed that Microsoft had been experimenting, but no one dared say anything....
Posted Thursday 26th March 2009 23:56 GMT
Re: Cameron Colley's question about Gigabyte, the notorious female virus writer (real name Kim Vanvaeck)
She got arrested in Belgium in 2004 (http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2004/02/va_gigabyte.html ) but ultimately was let off the hook by the cops with little more than a smacked wrist and a promise not to cause trouble again. As far as I know she followed their advice
I know a guy who met Gigabyte, and told me she was a rather cute-looking blonde. Bizarrely I was once invited to a security conference to sing a karaoke duet with her, but probably wisely turned down the opportunity..
Posted Friday 27th March 2009 12:13 GMT
No karaoke? Where's your sense of adventure?
Posted Friday 27th March 2009 12:13 GMT
Or the onion for that matter.
Posted Friday 27th March 2009 12:13 GMT
I've still got an old I love you.vbs t-shirt from NTK. Anyway, the lovebug was my favourite one, a really good trick in social engineering getting an email from my boss proclaming love.
They were more innocent times really.
Posted Friday 27th March 2009 12:13 GMT
>Got no end of grief when this virus got out.
>
>No prizes for guessing her name !!
>
>(She uses Ubuntu now)
Your daughter calls herself Ubuntu does she? Bet she _REALLY_ get the sh!t ripped outta her now.
Posted Friday 27th March 2009 16:44 GMT
Whose rules? You nark on someone you are a rat and not to be trusted by other people.
You have a grievance with someone you do it face to face, mono on mono. Those are honour rules, and served feudal Japan very well, it was only under unification did they get nuked.
Posted Friday 27th March 2009 18:23 GMT
And whose stupid idea was it, to make it possible to embed arbitrary code in a Word document? Step forward the real villain of the piece, Microsoft, yet again.
If a doc file were incapable of anything other than causing representations of pages to be generated on screens, printers and equivalent interfaces, we'd have been spared a huge lot of trouble.
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