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. -geek _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
