Ur Thoughts: Hackers and Viruses

[Kakashi509]

I never get virus's
*secretly adds link to pic of spam meat.*

[Silver Valentines]

I hate viruses, its annoying to death, it makes me want to throw away my computer...

[rubah]

The last virus that caused trouble for me was a couple of years ago.

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I'm surprised no one has tried to make the distinction between 'hackers' and 'crackers'

I mean srsly, go to MIT's hacks website. Now *that* is hacking.
and good stuff at that <3

[Spammerman]

I wish I had a dragon, that could bring me into the internet, and electronic world, so I could go and destroy lall viruses, and go drakengard on every virus, and hackers hardware!!!

[Shoeberto]

The last virus that caused trouble for me was a couple of years ago.

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I'm surprised no one has tried to make the distinction between 'hackers' and 'crackers'

I mean srsly, go to MIT's hacks website. Now *that* is hacking.
and good stuff at that <3

I was about to define the differences, but I'm lazy and just said that there were differences.

MIT's "hacks" are more pranks than anything, they just call them hacks. It makes more sense for reference, though, since their pranks are always on such a gigantic scale. Like the cop car on the roof with working lights.

[rubah]

Or the elevator to the deserted basement laboratory xD

[Meat Puppet]

One time I was walking down the road after going grocery shopping (sorry) and some filthy scum ran up to me and hacked both my arms off. That bastard.

[Peegee]

Viruses keep me on my toes. I've had to deal with viruses twice in two months -- my brother's computer got infested by a trojan and a few weeks ago my aunt's computer had a virus IN THE PAGE FILE.

The page file is not deletable. How do you think I managed to undo that mess?

[Fonzie]

I was looking a cetain "stuff" and i got a trojan, but macfee deleted it with leet talking. I didn't stand a chance

[Shadow_Wolf 6354]

What do people get out of making viruses?
hacking i can see the point of but viruses?


you may die now........
:shoot:

[boris no no]

i think that my computer has a virus...
but i'm too lazy to sort it out
plus my knowledge of computers is about as good as a dead dogs :rolleyes2

[The Jamie Star Scenario]

My computer has HIV.
I shouldn't have let my pet monkey near it.

[bipper]

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I hope all of this helps you in your fight against the internet

Bipper - never a white hat

[Shoeberto]

What do people get out of making viruses?
hacking i can see the point of but viruses?


you may die now........
:shoot:

Trojans are usually used to gain access to someone's personal data and could be used for identity theft. Zombie virii are used for widely distributed attacks against a powerful server (generally something in the government or a big corporation.) Virii that just destroy your computer are used for mayhem.

A lot of times hackers and coders have mental disorders (like aspergers) or are just highly intelligent people, but these lead to a lot of social problems. However, it also makes them brilliant coders. They can spend long times obsessing over small bits of code. Let one of these guys get bored enough and they'll write whatever they're curious enough to get running. I think a lot of the general mayhem-causing virii are written by kids that are just bored.

Then, of course, you've also got the scriptkiddies, who search on Limewire or whatever it is the kids use these days for virii they can install on their friends computer. They don't know how to properly use it, they don't know how it works, but bam, your computer just got infected by a twelve-year-old dumbass who goes to school the next day and tells all of his friends that are actually more naive than him that he's now officially a "hacker."

God I hate scriptkiddies.

Eh, I'm done ranting now.

[bipper]

Nice generalization... I have hacking skills - but i am mostley sane... so i thought.

I am more into testing my websites vs injections, and paging through ram for some projects i work on. I am a programmer so it is only natural to know the enemy? Right?...

omg.. I'm fu#$#d up!

Bipper