All your post tells me is that you never caught Vundo on your computer. Your attitude toward bored, Russian malware writers drastically changes. The first time you get it, it's as painful as a digital kidney stone -- and someone, somewhere is making money from your suffering.
Cleaned up Vundo many times at work. Yes it can be tricky, but I still maintain that it is not worth murdering someone over. I don't have any love for malware writers, but I do have lots of love for the punishment fitting the crime, and tons of love for not having stupid knee-jerk over reactions to things.
I suppose where you work, wasting 2 peoples' entire mornings every time someone reads the news without updating their Java version is not considered "painful"
After what I went through, in those early days, oh boy... when I find the bastard who wrote Vundo, I will kill him with my bare hands. He can think the awesome things he bought with what little money he made as the light fades from his eyes and his soul is slowly gripped by the eternal horrors of Hell. Will you then consider jailtime too severe a p
Gosh that takes me back... or is it forward? That's the trouble with
time travel, you never can tell."
-- Doctor Who, "Androids of Tara"
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Malware and Virus authors should be lined up against a wall and shot. They are cancers and need to be irradiated.
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I also say execution for jaywalking, littering, and spitting in public.
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Are you sure it's an over reaction?
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After what I went through, in those early days, oh boy... when I find the bastard who wrote Vundo, I will kill him with my bare hands. He can think the awesome things he bought with what little money he made as the light fades from his eyes and his soul is slowly gripped by the eternal horrors of Hell. Will you then consider jailtime too severe a p