If I could have one wish, just one.
A missile up the ass of the guy who wrote the script for “trojandownloader.xs” and all the shit it spawned. Is there any way that we can send these people to prison? If in another country, can we have them taken out?
What’s it worth?
For just $99 we could have taken care of that for you 
. Think of it as getting 7 hours of your life back.
OMG, I got that on my work computer recently…it is the worst. My boss spent hours and hours trying to get rid of it. He was really nice about it, but I felt bad. The worst thing about it is that I have no idea where I picked it up.
Prison’s too good for 'em. Burnin’s too good for 'em. They should be torn into little bitty pieces and buried aliiiive!
Freakin’ downloader. AVG didn’t even notice it.
Grr!
Dammit! Beat me to it. Although, we’re $120/hr.
How about putting them in the job of coding an OS instead? That way, it might actually work! Some of these assholes are pretty smart cookies.
Yeah, but who wants an OS designed by assholes?
It might be an improvement. Sometimes the viralware seems more robust than the OSes.
All the people who buy Windows?
Spoken like a man who has never tried to disagree with RMS.
He’s an Asshole of the finest Dennis Leary variety.
[Smug Mac User]You got a virus??? OMG they still make those?[/SMU]
Posting from my old computer, which I just hooked up.
I know how to take care of that sucker, just hate spending the time.
Worst one I ever got. Came from an IM(I think) link. One of my kids.
Response time is everything in this biz
We do virus/spyware for $99 including docs backup and windows reload if we have to. Sitting in the shop with 4-6 of them plugged into a KVM switch and babysitting the scanners can make ALOT of money in a hurry.
Since we don’t charge an hourly rate for this we are pretty unrepentant about multitasking it wherever possible.
Is it just me, or is “trojandownloader.xs” a refreshingly honest malware name?
Credit where it’s due.
The people who write the malware don’t usually get to name their baby, although text phrases from inside the code are often used to create a name. It’s the anti-malware crowd that usually provides the moniker.
Can’t you configure AVG to scan the downloader’s files? I use Avast Pro and Internet Download Manager and run them in conjunction. Most times when I run my ad/malware software I get a clean bill of health – meaning that very little gets through my defenses.
Of course I’ve had to learn the hard way – as in having a couple of hard-drives totally fried.
Not exactly concerning malware, but I agree 100% with following sentiment:
From here:
Only a couple virii are capable of physically damaging a hard drive and IIRC the manufacturers have corrected the flaw that allowed it quite some time ago (seeking outside of normal track range and beating the heads against the stops). Nowadays nothing a new partition and format can’t fix.
