Bart Silverstrim wrote:
On May 17, 2005, at 3:21 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 17 May 2005, Damian Menscher wrote:
Would the person who implements this do me a favor and make the virus
pretend to be a viagra spam? If we format the hard drives of people
that buy from spammers, and the media picks up on it, then everyone will
be informed of how dangerous spam is. Nobody will click it anymore, and
spammer profits will plummet. This has a very real chance of
eliminating the spam problem.
Kill two birds with one stone... I like it.
Nice. That couldn't be cleaner. There are plenty of ways of harmlessly disabling a system (no lost data, just no boot) and that would certainly be an awakening call for everyone across the board. People would get to reinstall their os and loose at least 2hrs of time. I really miss the days of destructive viruses. We just don't really see 'em like we used to. Remember Michaelangelo? What was his birthday again?
/me stops reminiscing of the good ol' days.
Actually I don't know if users would be effected by an hour or two charge of reinstalling the OS. Lose their favorite bookmarks or the report they were working on, they might remember that. But just hitting "next" a couple times...then again, re-entering a 50 digit key and reactivating XP is a pain in the butt. :-)
No, I wouldn't delete files... just replace their content with repeated strings of "I won't click on links in Viagra emails" or "I won't randomly click on links to unknown web sites" ... :-)
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