MyDoom Creator Can Bite ME
Guess what I’ve been doing today?
Well, at least for the past couple of hours. Yep, I’ve been trying to beat MyDoom into submission at my second, “part-time” consulting gig. I don’t know where they got it, how many machines have it, yet, or even how long they’ve had it, but they got it. I even did the updates via the Micro$loth Update service, but that just wasn’t good enough. So, while I type this entry, the MyDoom removal tool is downloading, as is Spybot Search and Destroy. Why both? Well, at least one of the people at this site has KaZa loaded on their machine. And, while I’m sure it’s a great program for trading perfectly legal files, it’s about the most pernicious virus infection vector I’ve ever seen. If I were making the policy here, I’d just uninstall it and tell them not to ever even consider asking about the possibility of installing it again. But, no, I’m a “consultant” so I have to be more diplomatic than that. Which, I think, I was. (My wife was there, so I think she’ll back me up on that.) Is it wrong to pray for something so small and trival like someone forbidding another to run a piece of software? Well, if it is, it’s too late for me, because I’ve already done it.
Oh, well, at least I got paid for the four hours of work by the hour, at my “on-the-side” rates…
