Microsoft is teh total badassness....

Peter Thomas · Wed 14/04/2004 12:03:53

It's true.....

Check this out for completely screwed up.

My bro is an electrical engineer, so he builds and assembles computers..... he's in the process of building our family's new computer, and he's instaling Window's XP.

He's installed the basic Device Drivers, and now XP, and Norton Antivirus detected BLASTWORM.exe!!!! as well as three other viruses.....

Since there is NOTHING on the computer except what he got from the (legally bought) cd's from microsoft, it means the virus MUST BE ON THE CD! He's formatted and re-formatted about five times.

how freaking stupid is that?!

Czar · Wed 14/04/2004 12:15:04

lol.
But did you do anything besides that?
lets say copy the adress book from OE (i know its stupid what i'm sayin

)
or did you even connect to teh NET?

Peter Thomas · Wed 14/04/2004 12:31:50

He's connected to the internet, yes... but ONLY to download a device driver from microsoft.com

And he's no dummy. He's not the sort of person who accidentally downloads spyware and viruses and stuff. He knows how to avoid it..... unfortunately I don't... but anyway......

I've come to the conclusion that Bill Gates should be forced to have sex with a hungry alligator

Timosity · Wed 14/04/2004 12:37:00

The first thing after connecting to the internet is do Windows Update, and get all the critical updates, otherwise you will get blasterworms and all that shite just by being on the internet.

There's a critical update that stops the blasterworm.

Peter Thomas · Wed 14/04/2004 12:56:38

we already did the critical windows update and everything prior.

EDIT: Well, my brother did, anyway. I don't know why I put 'we' in there..... maybe I'm just jealous......

DGMacphee · Wed 14/04/2004 13:55:18

No, you're right -- It's obviously Microsoft that's purposely infecting people's computers with viruses.

It's just that everyone else is keeping quiet, so you're a real trailblazer here.

You should sue him for purposely infecting your computer -- From what you've told us, it sounds like you have a pretty concrete case against him.

evenwolf · Wed 14/04/2004 14:02:58

I always felt that it made perfect sense that the people who made the viruses were the people who sold the anti-virus protection.

afterall, those companies would go belly-up should hackers suddenly get bored and stop.

DGMacphee · Wed 14/04/2004 14:06:24

Pffft, that's crazy talk!

You're crazy, Evenwolf!

No one listen to Even's lies, cause he talks crazy talk!

SSH · Wed 14/04/2004 14:14:07

DG, it was good to see you at the Norton AGM the other day. I didn't know that you were a shareholder too.

Nacho · Wed 14/04/2004 14:18:21

If you become a danger for the society, (you kill or something) you are displaced from the society (You go to jail).

IMO, if you become a danger for the virtual society, you'd be taken out from the virtual society (A.K.A. Virus makers should be send to a desert island without computers

).

But I think we're all together in this, as we're creators and the virus makers are destroyers... Shame on them.

DGMacphee · Wed 14/04/2004 14:21:36

You can't prove anything, SSH!

SSH · Wed 14/04/2004 14:27:57

You're forgetting the photos from the post-AGM party. Don't you remember the inflatable chicken?

DGMacphee · Wed 14/04/2004 14:30:40

How much do you want?

SSH · Wed 14/04/2004 14:38:45

$10000 and full custody of the fruits of our "endeavour".

DGMacphee · Wed 14/04/2004 14:43:59

How about $5 and you can keep the llama?

Raggit · Wed 14/04/2004 15:36:06

I highly doubt that any corporation, including Microsoft could afford to infect their own files with viruses intentionally. Sooner or later the public would find out and have some nasty things to deal with.

Perhaps Norton missrecognized the file. That happens alot.

shbaz · Wed 14/04/2004 18:25:06

Immediately upon connecting to my college network (which is infected like the dirty whore it is) I had a couple of viruses until I downloaded some updates and cleaned it.. My computer had itchy red bumps on it for a week.

Your bro is an EE, so he assembles computers? Shouldn't he be designing them for large amounts of money?

Peter Thomas · Wed 14/04/2004 23:37:38

Yes - he DOES design them for large amounts of money, but the designing process means he has to know a jolly lot about a computer works: thus he can assemble them relatively cheap for us.

Okay- maybe everyone here missed my point.... OF COURSE I don't believe microsoft intentionally infected my computer and only my computer with 4 viruses. But that is the only [conceivable] way it happened, because nothing else has been NEAR our computer, and he got the windows critical updates blah blah blah, so he's 99.9% sure it wasn't from the net......

Nacho · Wed 14/04/2004 23:41:44

And 99.9999999999999999% that it wasn't in the original CD...

Peter Thomas · Thu 15/04/2004 00:05:26

exactly.

But I hate Bill Gates anyway (for no real reason other than he's rich and famous and wears ugly glasses) so it's always fun to think it's personal.....