Yeah, that pretty much sums up how most viruses spread, a user clicks something they shouldn't, even though they have been warned several thousand times before not click on that thing.

"Yeah, that pretty much sums up how most viruses spread, a user clicks something they shouldn't, even though they have been warned several thousand times before not click on that thing."

Um, no, that describes how a trojan spreads.

Things that say they're one thing, but then, when you run them, do another thing, are trojans.

Things that spread without humans helping, and infect executable files, are viruses.

These definitions have been in place since the 1980s (at least), but maybe the lack of memory (or neurons) in the media and elsewhere will lead to them all being grouped together at some point.

Admittedly, this one does allegedly add a stub of code to all executables on the system, which might then cause other systems to have problems if those executables were copied over to them (although I can't envision why this would happen, 99.999% of the time).

Will be... what? Unavailable for comment?

Hey now!

You Mac fans-- Don't be hatin' on the Windows!

I've made some damn good money over the years cleaning up/repairing infected Windows machines.

Just this week I made $150 for less than 3 hours work cleaning up and reconfiguring a couple of Dell boxes.

I haven't made a damn cent off of Macs. If everybody had Macs, where would I get my "hookers and blow" money?


/runs Gentoo linux
//still trying to get sound to work on my new AMD64 motherboard with Nvidia chipset.
///been fighting the damn thing for days.
////but, hey, that makes me 1337. Or something.