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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4162124.stm

Haha, this is nice watching. Hacker groups fighting against each other for control. Viruses deleting other viruses. :D

*BANG!* Collateral damage, motherfucker! :sniper:

Shit! Skynet has become self aware! Aaaahhhh <Dives into nuclear bunker>

Anyone who's convicted of writing a virus should be tortured to death on a live streaming internet feed.

This is interesting...perhaps this is the first step towards creating evolving antiviruses that destroy the viruses and then learn that virus' methods, evolving to meet the new threats.

People need to harden their OS's better. Or better yet, run OS X on a Mac - true, it's security through obscurity - but it's working for me, and will likely serve as a buffer for the near future.

I watched CNN report this story, including shots of their own people's strained expressions as their computers kept re-booting. I'm no fan of CNN, but it inspired me to pity.

Anyone who's convicted of writing a virus should be tortured to death on a live streaming internet feed.Not merely writing a virus; writing and letting loose a virus. For example, writing a virus and using it only in safe, isolated tests should hardly be worthy of torture to death.

I think that antiviruses that can evolve are a very bad idea as to be truly effective they will be able to evolve and advance into other areas (think skynet very bad)

Now that there's big money involved in computer crime, and organized crime is involved, you can count on attacks for years to come.

There are now professional-grade programmers and IT specialists in mid-career who have done nothing but learn how to attack Microsoft OS's. This is what they do, and they are paid to do this.

We might as well give up, they are so far ahead of the anti-virus, ant-spyware vendors that that all we can do is limit the damage. Microsoft does little to repair their junk proactively, just living from one patch to the next. Always weeks and months behind - how much money gets stolen between patches?

Botnets in multiples of 10,000 are for rent by the hour or the week to phishers and criminals of all sorts. This is big money now and the caliber of criminal is hard to beat. The poor user is screwed.

I feel real safe that a plane was brought down because of a windows virus :rolleyes: (see pic in story)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4162124.stm

Haha, this is nice watching. Hacker groups fighting against each other for control. Viruses deleting other viruses. :D
Dating myself here...

We use to do this on floppy disks using "Red Code" under a Mod called "Core Wars". Red Code was a modified Assembly Code and the objective was to take over the core memory of the machine on which it was played.

The simplest codes were "Imp" and "anti-Imp".

Much fun in the days before system standardization... :D

Not merely writing a virus; writing and letting loose a virus. For example, writing a virus and using it only in safe, isolated tests should hardly be worthy of torture to death.
Right. That's what I meant.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4162124.stm

Haha, this is nice watching. Hacker groups fighting against each other for control. Viruses deleting other viruses. :D
Good, but it's probably just them playing their equivalent of regional invading/defending.

Not that I know this, alright?

*runs*

Wow, this makes me wish that Introversion Software hadn't abandoned their plans for a multiplayer, online sequel to Uplink (http://www.uplink.co.uk/). That would've been sweet. :(