Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
:| Put the people that STILL HAVE INFECTED BOXES OUT THERE in jail too. They're the criminals. :|
Originally posted by: BlackMountainCow
Indeed, I saw some statistics not too long ago, that still 25% of the people are surfing the i-net without a virus scanner and over 35% without a firewall. I mean, you can call Micro$oft whatever you want, but the firewall in SP2 was at least a step.
Originally posted by: Soggys1stBrat
It's terrible.
Look at the Wednesday Jan 19 article here
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog...e-012005.html#00000441">Virus Writer</a>
This guy is blatantly writing viruses and giving them out to anyone who wants 'em.
This is a worldwide problem and I think the U.N. should get involved in this kind of thing. I don't think it should be left up to the individual governments. It's obvious not all of them want to do anything.:disgust::|
Originally posted by: Markfw900
I think he should have gotten the book thrown at him. I spend 3/4 of my time fixing peoples computers that have spyware or viruses. That virus got us at work, and we used Mcaffe and had recent updated virues defs. Took out our network for 3 days, of over 30k computers, just for my company! I don't know where they got the 48k number.
Originally posted by: Soggys1stBrat
This is a worldwide problem and I think the U.N. should get involved in this kind of thing. I don't think it should be left up to the individual governments. It's obvious not all of them want to do anything.:disgust::|
Originally posted by: CrazySaint
Originally posted by: Soggys1stBrat
This is a worldwide problem and I think the U.N. should get involved in this kind of thing. I don't think it should be left up to the individual governments. It's obvious not all of them want to do anything.:disgust::|
Yes! Let's get the UN involved. That always fixes things! If they get really mad, they might say unpleasant things about countries without strong internet security legislation!
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Originally posted by: Markfw900
I think he should have gotten the book thrown at him. I spend 3/4 of my time fixing peoples computers that have spyware or viruses. That virus got us at work, and we used Mcaffe and had recent updated virues defs. Took out our network for 3 days, of over 30k computers, just for my company! I don't know where they got the 48k number.
Wasn't the patch for blaster released WAY before the worm? If I'm right, that makes it the admins' fault for getting it. Not the kid's.
EDIT: Quick research says the patch was out for about a month before blaster was discovered...
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
At least the State of Washington knows what a real Hacker is.
Originally posted by: Unforgiven
his ass should get jail time and anyone else doing internet "crimes" should get the same! hopefully this is a start of authorities worldwide starting to make people pay for their actions. the worst part of that whole article is that they are pinning blame on the parents. give me a break. i swear, no one takes responsiblity for anything anymore. he got what he deserved and hopefully he learns from it!