Kids these days...

You know, back in my day you didn't need 150kb to write a virus.

It looks like I've been put on somebody's mailing list for them
though, since between 5:30pm yesterday and 8:00am today I was sent 40
copies of it.


BTH

 

It scrapes addresses from Usenet, apparently. I was getting about
1 per minute for a while. I've set up a procmail recipe to bin
them now ...

The first virus I ever saw in detail was the 'stoned' virus.
It fit in a 512-byte floppy-disk boot block, with plenty of
room to spare.

-----sharks

 

"BT Humble" wrote

Over 1500 on the weekend. You can be in too many peoples address
books. Whinged to my ISP yesterday morning and it was fixed. Haven't
got one since.

It's nice to have a good working relationship with your ISP. I highly
recommend bekkers.com.au , Great Guys!

Theo

 

The first virus I ever saw in detail was the 'stoned' virus.

haha yeah I remember that one! Got infected with it, actually. Ahh
nostalgia.

Jules

 

Heheh - back in the days when lusers thought computer viruses could jump
from floppy-to-floppy while they slept in the disk box! Stoned was a great
virus, now days the viruses just lack that assembly-level finesse of yonder
years

--James
ZZR250==>ZX9R
__________________________________
A random quote of nothing:

knghtbrd: there may be no spoon, but can you spot the vulnerability in
eye_render_shiny_object.c?
-- rcw

 

40?!!?
I've been getting them solid for a week and I reckon I'm approaching 500!
It's from this newsgroup too.
Clem

 

I think around 200 since Friday, but not from current postings here, they're
all coming in on my old address.

Al

 

I didn't get that one, although work did... I did get pakistani brain which
was contempory with it though


Geoff and Jodie

 

....and it works SO well on Macs.....

Hammo

 

Start - Run 'services.msc' - Scroll to Messenger, Disable.

Doug Cox.
Work to ride, Ride to work...

 

If you ran a decent version of MacOS[1] we'd talk to you ...[2]

Cheers
Goaty
1. That's MacOS X (not 10), or as we say, BSD Unix
2. ... and you would have fewer virus problems[3]
3. and get rid of that fragile Mac file system!

 

Yer but you don't have to worry about all the viruses either Hammo.

 

Boo hoo, bloody computer nerds.

Go and fiddle with yer kernel or somesuch.

To answer the questions,
I do, I do[1] and it has.

Hammo

[1] what makes you think I want to talk to you?

Next you'll be picking on lefties!!

 

<pet peve>
Its not Unix. Unix is not linux! Mac OS X is OpenBSD which is a
linux variant. Unix is licensed by the Open Group
(http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/05/23/1053585678840.html), but
formerly AT&T Bell labs, and usually only runs on big expensive Alpha
boxes. Linux and friends is free and runs on desktop PC's and
associated architecture.</pet peve>

Cheers,
Ash

 

Oh, you silly, silly boy. Back to the shallow end for you.

-----sharks

 

well can you explainwhat the hell this all means
From the apple website.
Mac OS X version 10.2 Jaguar contains over 150 new features and provides
significant enhancements to its modern, UNIX-based foundation.
Referred to by its code name, Jaguar, Mac OS X v10.2 is a different
breed of operating system. Jaguar combines the rock-solid reliability of
UNIX with the ease of use of Macintosh. This version of Mac OS X is as
innovative as the computers that run it. And whether you’re a Mac user
who’s upgrading, a Windows user who’s looking at switching to the Mac or
a UNIX user who loves the idea of using key applications like Microsoft
Office on top of a state-of-the art BSD UNIX implementation, this is the
OS for you.

 

Where do I start tearing apart this pathetic drivel?

1) peve is actually "peeve"

2) Since when was OpenBSD a linux variant? OpenBSD is (surprise
surprise) a FUCKING BSD VARIANT.

3) Since when was Mac OS X based on OpenBSD? OS X is based on FreeBSD
and its kernel is based on the Mach kernel

4) Since when does unix usually only run on big expensive Alpha boxes?
Irix runs on RISC chips. Solaris runs on RISC and i386 chips. AIX runs
on PPC chips. HPUX runs on HP RISC chips. All BSD variants run on
non-alpha architectures. NOT ONE FUCKING MENTION OF ALPHA SO FAR.
Your statement is wildly incorrect.

5) Linux runs on fucking anything from embedded systems to IBM s390
mainframes. It will even run on a Microsoft XBox.

Go back to computer school mister smaerty pants.

ps. It's GNU is not unix.

dane

 

NERDFIGHT, NERDFIGHT!

 

Now that made me smile.

Theo
Mental picture of some-one playing with his tool behind his ramparts.
Urrgh!