News: Microsoft spreads virus--by accident

Special to ZDNet News ^ | June 14, 2002, 9:20 AM PT | By Robert Lemos

[amigatec]

This is nice instead of waiting to get another MS virus, MS now supplies for you. Some "trustworthy computing"

[amigatec]

And a big ol' ping to you all!!!

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

unbelievable bump sheeeeeeeesh what is the next microsoftflub?

[tubebender]

Ah yes...pinging the "PC" Hatfields and the "Mac" Coys. You will find me in the bomb shelter.

[steve-b]

Ah yes...pinging the "PC" Hatfields and the "Mac" Coys.

[steve-b]

I thought "Virus Free" meant "contains no viruses", not "virus included at no extra charge".

[LibKill]

I'm getting mighty tired of Microsuck screwups.

I don't care if Bill Gates is richer than the Aga Khan. I don't care if he has more money than any 5 countries picked at random.

I purely hate the software he puts out.

Worse, since everyone else (99%) is using this obscene software I have to use it for file compatability.

Is there any other supplier that produces good software with Microsuck file compatability?

[Bush2000]

Flores stressed that no other foreign-language versions of the program were found to carry the worm, and he said the worm had not actually executed on any developers' systems.

Whooooo, boy. Korean version. Nobody was affected. Care for any cheese with your whine? Weak.

[Bush2000]

I purely hate the software he puts out.

Yeah, we can tell: Hate is the mind-killer.

[amigatec]

Did you just get off the phone with Bill?

Is he still trying to some way to worm out of this one. I thought according to MS only GPL software sent out patches with Virus's in them?

This is what he has been telling the world.

[amigatec]

Whooooo, boy. Korean version. Nobody was affected. Care for any cheese with your whine? Weak.

Could have been the English Version.

It just happened to be the Korean Version.

[magellan]

I would suggest that Windows itself is a computer virus.

[LibKill]

Yeah, we can tell: Hate is the mind-killer.

Bzzzzzzt! Wrong!

Re-read the 'Dune' series by Frank Herbert.

Fear is the mind-killer.

[Bush2000]

Did you just get off the phone with Bill?

Don't know the man. You?

Is he still trying to some way to worm out of this one. I thought according to MS only GPL software sent out patches with Virus's in them? This is what he has been telling the world.

Where did you read this? Reference, please.

[Bush2000]

Bzzzzzzt! Wrong! Re-read the 'Dune' series by Frank Herbert. Fear is the mind-killer.

And you wonder why Linux is doomed to always live in the server rooms with the geeks. You guys can't even make the mental leap from fear to hate.

[Bush2000]

Could have been the English Version.

Ah, but it wasn't.

It just happened to be the Korean Version.

When was the last time you booted up the Korean version of Visual Studio or IIS? Don't you have anything better to do than troll over this? This is weaaaaaaaaaaaaak...

[RedBloodedAmerican]

ya gotta admit, his posts are pretty witty. :)

[LibKill]

And you wonder why Linux is doomed to always live in the server rooms with the geeks. You guys can't even make the mental leap from fear to hate.

Give me good software that does what I tell it to do, AND, file compatability with Microsuck.

There will be one more Linux geek. :)

[Bush2000]

Give me good software that does what I tell it to do, AND, file compatability with Microsuck.

Don't you have spell checkers under Linux? Or haven't you progressed the point of learning to use one?