May the spam be with you
OK, so the heading makes no sense. Anyway, today my mailserver (the one I use, that is) was hit by a flood of virus-infected emails. My friend who administers the server reported a peak rate of one mail per second, and this is a server which has under fifty accounts on it.
The people writing these things should really get a good and proper spanking. Microsoft should too. The people writing viree are obviously the ones at blame, but sadly, the truth is that Microsoft made it all possible. If one could harness all the mental energy gone to waste cleaning up after these things we'd have solved the earths energy problems by now...
But the most annoying thing is having all these rather good programmers throwing their potential away writing viree. It can serve as a good exercise in a controlled environment, but it's no hobby. And if you ask me, the really destructive viree haven't been seen yet. Even with my limited programming skills and basic knowledge of distributed and peer to peer systems I claim I could produce a much more destructive virus than the current breed. Fortunately guns don't kill people, people kill people, and I'm not a triggerhappy kind of guy.