What should be done to the blaster writer?

**Radical Dreamer** · August 15th, 2003, 05:22 PM

So what do you guys think?

**Trout** · August 15th, 2003, 07:41 PM

I Guess,,, Lock Him Up With BUBBA~!!!
Just because WE CAN~!!!!
And HE**yes It Would Be Funny~!
YEEEEHAwwwwwwww

But honestly,, not taking sides either way,, Was this a wake up call to pc users? At least this virus was nothing more than a pain in the a**to the common users.
I Honestly feel it was just a matter of a few weeks/months and somebody with more malicious intentions or perhaps terriots from some 3rd world sespool would have destroyed computers world wide.
Though,, I agree, The Whole Thing IS Wrong~!!,, But,, People knew that before July 16th,, And The majority(300,000 users) did NOTHING To Prevent It.
The Word Was Out,, Nobody listened Until It Was TO Late~!
It Could have been FAR Worse.

trout

**Radical Dreamer** · August 15th, 2003, 08:07 PM

It was a wakeup call, and yes it was a nice little boost to the biz for tech shops, but it was unnecessary extra work for the hourly help desk workers

**silencio** · August 15th, 2003, 09:40 PM

"Shoot him in the face" is just too good a line to ignore.

**NooNoo** · August 16th, 2003, 02:10 AM

He won't get a job as a programmer - did you see what Symantec said about it?

**Darksteel** · August 16th, 2003, 07:32 AM

Considering he's just exploiting a Windows flaw I can't imagine that he's that great of a programmer. I mean I can go out for Sunday walks and trip over Windows flaws.

**rgharper** · August 16th, 2003, 03:59 PM

Originally posted by Darksteel
Considering he's just exploiting a Windows flaw I can't imagine that he's that great of a programmer. I mean I can go out for Sunday walks and trip over Windows flaws.

And considering that he couldn't even determine what version of Windows the code was running on ...

**Matridom** · August 16th, 2003, 04:08 PM

Originally posted by rgharper
And considering that he couldn't even determine what version of Windows the code was running on ...

ya, at first, i thought it was all windows NT platforms.. After digging into the details of the worm, i find NT4.0 and 2k3 to be immune to the bug.. Good thing i run 2k3

**MacGyver** · August 16th, 2003, 05:05 PM

I patched ages ago, and I run a firewall, so the worm didn't affect me. Ever since the infamous 811493 patch that screwed up so many people's systems, people have been hesitant to use Windows Update.

**Radical Dreamer** · August 16th, 2003, 05:43 PM

Who said that he should be given a job? Just curious

**nunob** · August 16th, 2003, 08:34 PM

I think we should tie him to a tree cut him open and string out his internals give him an iv to keep him alive, tape his eyelids open and let the animals feed on his inerds slowly working toward him while he watches the whole thing. But on a lighter note its always nice to get the money a virus generates and to thumb your nose at the folks you have been warning about getting virus protection, firewalls, and doing their updates.

**Cleetus** · August 17th, 2003, 02:07 AM

I think he should be forced to work my job, and deal with the users.*shuddering at the thought of the torture*

**rgharper** · August 17th, 2003, 02:46 PM

Originally posted by Matridom
ya, at first, i thought it was all windows NT platforms.. After digging into the details of the worm, i find NT4.0 and 2k3 to be immune to the bug.. Good thing i run 2k3

You'd better patch if you haven't already, the next guy may be smarter ...

What I meant was that the worm writer was too inept to determine the Windows version the worm was executing on, so he instead used a random number generator to pick which system to try to infect - Windows XP or Windows 2000. Fortunately he weighted it at 80% Windows XP, 20% Windows 2000 ... otherwise he'd have probably brought down even more networks and systems than he did.

**Matridom** · August 17th, 2003, 03:20 PM

Originally posted by rgharper
You'd better patch if you haven't already, the next guy may be smarter ...

What I meant was that the worm writer was too inept to determine the Windows version the worm was executing on, so he instead used a random number generator to pick which system to try to infect - Windows XP or Windows 2000. Fortunately he weighted it at 80% Windows XP, 20% Windows 2000 ... otherwise he'd have probably brought down even more networks and systems than he did.

I checked my server.. the patch was applied so long ago, i forgot about it. july17th it was applied to ye ole server