STAY AWAY FROM YAHOO GROUPS....

[pyrate83]

Joking, but seriously, I was there the other day and I clicked the link to one of the supposed groups and got two viruses instantly! Luckily AVG was there to the rescue but still, I will never try and join ANY yahoo group again!!!!

[adam]

Well that's what you get for trying to join a group called Mydoom.

[MrMungus]

Joking, but seriously, I was there the other day and I clicked the link to one of the supposed groups

From what website?

[pyrate83]

I honestly don't remember but it looked good from the description I read...i was wrong...so very wrong.

[Cobra]

What is the point in writing viruses? What is the author of Mydoom proving? What can he/she gain?

I'm sure if this person were found out, I could guess what they'd gain.....

CobraDMX

[MrMungus]

I honestly don't remember but it looked good from the description I read...i was wrong...so very wrong.

What I mean is, were you on something something dot yahoo dot com or some other site?

[MrMungus]

What is the point in writing viruses? What is the author of Mydoom proving? What can he/she gain?

I'm sure if this person were found out, I could guess what they'd gain.....

CobraDMX

Some people are just angry, bitter, malicious ********. That's life.

[Baldrick]

What can he/she gain?

MONEY!...selling antivirus programs .

[Cobra]

Are you saying that the antivirus people might encourage this behaviour? Imagine if it was proven that one of the big companies were up to this. My money's on Norton - they always seem to be on top of things....

CobraDMX

[obiron]

What is the point in writing viruses? What is the author of Mydoom proving? What can he/she gain?

IMO it's a power trip. Imagine what it must feel like to be able to control a corporation's assets or activating thousands of bots to target a single site. Then observe that site taken out of action for a time.

[Faustus]

Are you saying that the antivirus people might encourage this behaviour? Imagine if it was proven that one of the big companies were up to this. My money's on Norton - they always seem to be on top of things....

CobraDMX

I've been saying this for years... don't trust norton, don't trust Mcafee, they are in on the deal. lol

[SLK001]

What can he/she gain?

MONEY!...selling antivirus programs .

Maybe, but with Microsoft offering a $250,000US bounty on the writer's head, the writer better have very good friends (who won't sell him out for cash), or he'd better work alone in a very dark closet!

[Will Hay]

Well that's what you get for trying to join a group called Mydoom.

I've been saying this for years... don't trust norton, don't trust Mcafee, they are in on the deal.

Hell, that doesn't sound so insane.
You guys in the US send and recieve a ridiculous amount of mobile/cellphone text messages?
Are you up to speed technology wise over there?
We send and recieve shitloads over here, and the jokey ones, the ones that get sent around and around and around are, in my opinion, created by the telecommunication companies, the networks providing the service.
And at ten pence each ($.018 flasystus ) why wouldn't they?
Good business sense, they have an army of fifteen year olds to make them a shitload of money!
Will

[energy80s]

I think that most people in the computer industry believe that computer viruses are created by people with connections to virus protection programmes. It makes sense. No viruses = No need for Norton / Macafee / AVG / etc.

[pyrate83]

I honestly don't remember but it looked good from the description I read...i was wrong...so very wrong.

What I mean is, were you on something something dot yahoo dot com or some other site?

No, it wasn't like that. It was some hyperlink with text like, "Great Cars and Trucks click here" but it was a group. Apparently not since the viruses infected my system instantly...but they were weak and I conquered them!

[pyrate83]

BTW-This is the first time Baldrick has ever posted in one of my threads....I feel so special

Thanks Baldrick!

[MrMungus]

I honestly don't remember but it looked good from the description I read...i was wrong...so very wrong.

What I mean is, were you on something something dot yahoo dot com or some other site?

No, it wasn't like that. It was some hyperlink with text like, "Great Cars and Trucks click here" but it was a group. Apparently not since the viruses infected my system instantly...but they were weak and I conquered them!

Was it a link *to* a Yahoo website or a link *from* a Yahoo website. If it's a link *from* a Yahoo website, particularly a groups website, it's not Yahoo, it's whoever is running that group who is putting up nasty links, *not* Yahoo.

[pyrate83]

It was a link from Yahoo, I got confused

[Hardcoreruss]

and the jokey ones, the ones that get sent around and around and around are, in my opinion, created by the telecommunication companies, the networks providing the service.
And at ten pence each ($.018 flasystus ) why wouldn't they?
Good business sense, they have an army of fifteen year olds to make them a shitload of money!
Will

Me and my friends have thought that for years. They have a load of people just sitting in a room thinking those up.