...a STUPID virus writer.
Seriously, dude-or-dudette, we need to talk. If you're going to write a Rogue Antispyware program, with the purpose of conning people out of money, maybe you shouldn't completely lock out the means for them to actually pay you, huh?
Seriously, I've been buried the last two days removing one that got passed around the office (By the way, thanks ladies of the office email chain, for passing around that link to an infected website. Please, die in a fire, being molested by polar bears using weed whackers.). I hate these things as it is, but this one was an exorcise in poor planning. First, it wants the person to pay for the phoney software, but actually disables the web browser so they can't. Brilliant! Kumquat-in-a-light-socket brilliant! It also marks all the files it can find as hidden, so most users can't even find another web browser to use. It actually protects the user from sending these thieves money! I don't know whether to be happy in its failure, or pissed that they wasted so much of my time with such putrid, idiotic code.
At least now we're getting They-Who-Sit-Above-All-And-Lunch-With-City-Muckity-Mucks on board with locking down the systems--even if it will now be a bit more draconian than first planned. Now no one (well, except me, boss, and some upper management) will be able to install even a music player without say-so, and internet use will be monitored at the server level, rather than on an as-needed basis (read: person suspected of browsing instead of working). Once again the few screw it up for the many who were responsible in their computer use.
Days like this is why I like the Dynasty Warriors games. Going home and slaughtering a few thousandusers warriors really sounds good right about now.
Seriously, dude-or-dudette, we need to talk. If you're going to write a Rogue Antispyware program, with the purpose of conning people out of money, maybe you shouldn't completely lock out the means for them to actually pay you, huh?
Seriously, I've been buried the last two days removing one that got passed around the office (By the way, thanks ladies of the office email chain, for passing around that link to an infected website. Please, die in a fire, being molested by polar bears using weed whackers.). I hate these things as it is, but this one was an exorcise in poor planning. First, it wants the person to pay for the phoney software, but actually disables the web browser so they can't. Brilliant! Kumquat-in-a-light-socket brilliant! It also marks all the files it can find as hidden, so most users can't even find another web browser to use. It actually protects the user from sending these thieves money! I don't know whether to be happy in its failure, or pissed that they wasted so much of my time with such putrid, idiotic code.
At least now we're getting They-Who-Sit-Above-All-And-Lunch-With-City-Muckity-Mucks on board with locking down the systems--even if it will now be a bit more draconian than first planned. Now no one (well, except me, boss, and some upper management) will be able to install even a music player without say-so, and internet use will be monitored at the server level, rather than on an as-needed basis (read: person suspected of browsing instead of working). Once again the few screw it up for the many who were responsible in their computer use.
Days like this is why I like the Dynasty Warriors games. Going home and slaughtering a few thousand
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