Now, I’m opposed to the death penalty, as I don’t think the state should be killing people in cold blood — it’s just wrong and impractical for a whole host of reasons. That said, if some enterprising vigilante decided to aerosolize the brains of people who create and distribute malware, I wouldn’t exactly be bothered, you know?
Sorry, short rant, but I’m typing this on my iPhone.
Someday, some kind of hack will destroy some critical information at a critical time and get a bunch of people killed. Or some extremely rich bastard will lose billions of dollars and call his Senator. Or maybe a cute little white girl will get killed by a black malware programmer.
Otherwise no one will seriously go after these programmers.
Thankfully, a simple system restore seems to have solved the problem. There’s apparently a more involved fix for this particular bug that doesn’t involve a restore, but I just didn’t feel up to going through a dozen steps tonight.
Can we also take out those guys in Nigeria and the off-brand Viagra people?
Don’t worry. Once I take over the world, they’re history… or geography. Now, does anyone know where I could hire an all conquering army on the cheap?
That’s it! We don’t have to kill or beat the malware creators or the spammers!
We can just perform a system restore on them. Return their brains to their original factory defaults!
Me too, and me too.
I’ve been struggling with some fucking buy this antivirus now!!! infection and I’d have no problem kicking the person who built it in the head over and over again.
Too easy. Yawn. I liked it better when we had a Pit cop.
Have you tried MalwareBytes? That worked on my wife’s computer, but the antivirus (Avira - free) prevented it from establishing deep roots in the system. I assume you’re dealing with Desktop Security 2010, or something in its family.
And a bullet to the head would be too quick for those people. May I suggest a viral infection?
Maybe you can find something at VillainSource.
The Viagra people will be hard to put down.
It hides in your System Restore. Turn it off (right click on my computer, properties, system restore, turn it off) and then run Malware Bytes and Spybot Search and Destroy.
Why does this topic keep coming up?
Dear SIr,
i am contacting you because you hav expressed an desire to conquer the world. L0OK NØ FURTHÆR!
garbled screams in the background
I don’t know. But if it doesn’t die down in 3 or 4 hours, I’m calling my doctor.
I don’t envy you…that’s a hard call to make.
If only there were some way to stiffen your resolve . . .
It’s about time the jokes went in a new direction.
You’re no pun any more.
Its OK…they can keep their permanent erections as long as they are dead.