The nastiest virus ever created: Seti-BOINC!?

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Fuzzy Hollynoodles Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 9659 Credit: 251,998 RAC: 0	Message 141776 - Posted: 24 Jul 2005, 5:42:07 UTC - in response to Message 141748. Last modified: 24 Jul 2005, 5:42:53 UTC [quote]What sucks is a thread created by a plonked author still shows up in the thread list. So we can have our fun with it later! Yep, I agree. No sense in hijacking a useless thread and making it useful, if there's no fun involved.... >:-) AAAAARRRRGGGHHHH!!! "I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me ID: 141776 ·

Fuzzy Hollynoodles Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 9659 Credit: 251,998 RAC: 0	Message 141782 - Posted: 24 Jul 2005, 6:04:43 UTC - in response to Message 141781. [quote]What sucks is a thread created by a plonked author still shows up in the thread list. So we can have our fun with it later! Yep, I agree. No sense in hijacking a useless thread and making it useful, if there's no fun involved.... >:-) AAAAARRRRGGGHHHH!!! What? You did say have our fun later and it's later. Stop smacking me with your pirate, Misfit started it :O "I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me ID: 141782 ·

Fuzzy Hollynoodles Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 9659 Credit: 251,998 RAC: 0	Message 141797 - Posted: 24 Jul 2005, 6:48:46 UTC - in response to Message 141790. [quote]What sucks is a thread created by a plonked author still shows up in the thread list. So we can have our fun with it later! Yep, I agree. No sense in hijacking a useless thread and making it useful, if there's no fun involved.... >:-) AAAAARRRRGGGHHHH!!! What? You did say have our fun later and it's later. Stop smacking me with your pirate, Misfit started it :O [Irish accent] Captain! De blue lines re making me dizzy! [/Irish accent] It's not the blue lines that makes you dizzy, CR! "I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me ID: 141797 ·

Fuzzy Hollynoodles Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 9659 Credit: 251,998 RAC: 0	Message 141813 - Posted: 24 Jul 2005, 7:37:13 UTC - in response to Message 141808. Last modified: 24 Jul 2005, 7:44:08 UTC [quote]What sucks is a thread created by a plonked author still shows up in the thread list. So we can have our fun with it later! Yep, I agree. No sense in hijacking a useless thread and making it useful, if there's no fun involved.... >:-) AAAAARRRRGGGHHHH!!! What? You did say have our fun later and it's later. Stop smacking me with your pirate, Misfit started it :O [Irish accent] Captain! De blue lines re making me dizzy! [/Irish accent] It's not the blue lines that makes you dizzy, CR! LOL! I don't drink or do drugs so it must be a natural dizziness. Well, I drink socially a few times a year but never get drunk. Have an Irish beer then, CR Or this looks really Irish, I think! "I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me ID: 141813 ·

Captain Avatar Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 15133 Credit: 529,088 RAC: 0	Message 141902 - Posted: 24 Jul 2005, 13:06:56 UTC - in response to Message 141816. [quote]What sucks is a thread created by a plonked author still shows up in the thread list. So we can have our fun with it later! Yep, I agree. No sense in hijacking a useless thread and making it useful, if there's no fun involved.... >:-) AAAAARRRRGGGHHHH!!! Still drinking I see CR. Hic! What? You did say have our fun later and it's later. Stop smacking me with your pirate, Misfit started it :O [Irish accent] Captain! De blue lines re making me dizzy! [/Irish accent] It's not the blue lines that makes you dizzy, CR! LOL! I don't drink or do drugs so it must be a natural dizziness. Well, I drink socially a few times a year but never get drunk. Have an Irish beer then, CR Or this looks really Irish, I think! Thank you Fuzzy! I needed that, Hic... 3:48AM here. Night ;) ID: 141902 ·

jrmm22 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 30 Jan 04 Posts: 353 Credit: 24,536,157 RAC: 0	Message 144877 - Posted: 30 Jul 2005, 15:02:50 UTC - in response to Message 141200. The nastiest virus ever created: Seti-BOINC!? (nastiest because it comes with users request, in good faith to do some beneficial work, not with downloading from some pirate web-sites and it is not recognized as virus by my most advanced virus protection!) Wrong. The nastiest virus ever created is Windows. You even pay for it. ... It gave me a lot of work and all day (or several, as it repeated) to find out the guilty and then BOINC stopped even to react to icon in notification area. And then when Windows did not want to remove the program, that was really enough! After I managed to close processes from Control Panel system hardware, Windows (hopefully) removed the program. This is not the procedure recommended by Windows, and not known by majority of us â€œnormalâ€ users, especially in developing countries where people only have dial â€“ up and working without any hope of IT support. I read in one of these threads, in a pages long technical description of how to clean some bugs that assumptions (of author) is that user is mostly member of some LAN or companyâ€™s intranet requiring all proxieâ€™s settings etc. This is (was) not the case with Set Classic which was not the site for programmer-nerds only! If you cannot stop a process, then it is not the process' fault, it is the OS (Operating System) you're running, don't you think so? And that's about all I'm gonna say. ID: 144877 ·

tekwyzrd Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 21 Nov 01 Posts: 767 Credit: 30,009 RAC: 0	Message 144937 - Posted: 30 Jul 2005, 18:06:36 UTC - in response to Message 144877. The nastiest virus ever created: Seti-BOINC!? (nastiest because it comes with users request, in good faith to do some beneficial work, not with downloading from some pirate web-sites and it is not recognized as virus by my most advanced virus protection!) Wrong. The nastiest virus ever created is Windows. You even pay for it. ... It gave me a lot of work and all day (or several, as it repeated) to find out the guilty and then BOINC stopped even to react to icon in notification area. And then when Windows did not want to remove the program, that was really enough! After I managed to close processes from Control Panel system hardware, Windows (hopefully) removed the program. This is not the procedure recommended by Windows, and not known by majority of us â€œnormalâ€ users, especially in developing countries where people only have dial â€“ up and working without any hope of IT support. I read in one of these threads, in a pages long technical description of how to clean some bugs that assumptions (of author) is that user is mostly member of some LAN or companyâ€™s intranet requiring all proxieâ€™s settings etc. This is (was) not the case with Set Classic which was not the site for programmer-nerds only! If you cannot stop a process, then it is not the process' fault, it is the OS (Operating System) you're running, don't you think so? And that's about all I'm gonna say. I think the nastiest virus ever created is AOL. The seeds are everywhere and somehow find their way to your mailbox whether you have a computer or not. Once it infects a computer it is difficult to get rid of. Attempts to uninstall often result in a message stating that the software was not found. For those willing to allow it to continue to infest their systems there is a continued increase in it's disk usage as it upgrades itself, creating a new directory for each succeeding generation. Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001) ID: 144937 ·

Kajunfisher Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 29 Mar 05 Posts: 1407 Credit: 126,476 RAC: 0	Message 144945 - Posted: 30 Jul 2005, 18:30:21 UTC - in response to Message 144937. I think the nastiest virus ever created is AOL. (Snip) You just reminded me of something from a few years ago. My dad has zero skills on a computer and zero patience to match. He had installed a newer version of AOL. It was fine that day, but the next day when he signed on and it opened up to the main page it was all in Spanish. He got so mad I thought he was going to have a stroke. After a few attempts myself, seeing it would not keep his preferences, he asked me to call the AOL Tech Support people for him. He knew he would blow up on them. After dialing several numbers that several AOL Techs gave us, and waiting at least 5-10 minutes between each Tech we finally get one who could help. The problem was I almost could not understand what he was saying. He was from Pakistan (or some place similar) (no disrespect intended to anyone either) and his accent was so thick that everything he said I had to ask him to repeat several times so I could understand and everything I said to him had to be repeated. It was a major nightmare. Some people swear by it, some swear at it. No matter where you go, there you are... ID: 144945 ·

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