Reviewing Google News, Slashdot, Ars Technica and several other sites, makes one think that the initial hoopla about the Blaster worm/virus/general aggravation seems to be subsiding. Since the cretin that wrote it could not get the Windows Update address right, the potential denial of service possibility has been lessened. We'll see. Come Monday, it may not be all right. Many sales people that are carting around laptops from motel room to God knows where, will check in at the office, plug into the local intranet and re-infect some poor sys admin's newly cleaned network. Yes, it will happen.
Lack of manners and pompous inconsideration astound me. Qualified system administrators should be armed and given a license to kill. Well, maybe a big hammer. These good people work hard to give others a place to exchange and process information. They rarely ask for anything other than lotsa caffeine, quiet moments with their machines, more RAM, and the newest copy of PC Magazine. People that don't update virus definitions and blatantly plug into networks should be terminated immediately via hammer or pink slip.
For days now I have ranted about updating virus definitions. If you want your computer infected to the point that it crashes and loses ALL data that's your business. Hey, you can even call me and I'll gladly repair the poor damaged machine to a state of useful bliss. It will cost you. You have to go away and not call while I perform this ritual that I know way too well. And promise not to run over some poor defenseless animal just because it runs into the road on your way home. Nuff said. This rant stops here....for now anyway.
"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."
-Stephen Hawking
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