[VOA]

I've been getting hit with a few of these nastys this week.
Fortunately, vigilance with the anti-viral software has kept me out of trouble.

Although I'm not sanctioning violence...someday, when one of these virus
writers is taken out by some vigilante justice...there won't be all that
many tears.
Personally, I'd prefer they are just tortured.
As in being kept in a room without access to a computer or any other electrical device
for at least 20-40 years.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

No compassion at all! LOL!

[Theo]

I agree.

A month or two ago, I received over 1,000 copies of that virus. That is "one thousand." I own a couple of domain names, and the spammer/virus jerk used one of them as a "sent from" email address. So I received tons of "bounced back" emails.

I use a Mac, and so I won't get that virus, and I use spam filters, so most go into a separate mailbox. But it's still a huge hassle. I've saved most of them, in case they catch the guy. I'm planning on filing a lawsuit against him for misrepresentation, etc. Seriously.

[atomicpossum]

Although I'm not sanctioning violence...someday, when one of these virus writers is taken out by some vigilante justice...there won't be all that many tears. Personally, I'd prefer they are just tortured. As in being kept in a room without access to a computer or any other electrical device for at least 20-40 years.

What I don't get is why these virus writers waste their time setting up denial-of-service attacks against Microsoft and SCO. It seems to me they could actually do some good by targeting some of the spam-friendly ISPs (some in China and Brazil come to mind) that shelter the constant spam operations that are really clogging up the internet. People would want to get infected to help take part, and once the spam-friendly ISPs knew they would get their business disrupted, they'd have a lot less reason to shelter the spamming scum and we'd see the profitabilty of those operations plummet...