Virus plague

22 Aug 2004

Just got around to installing GRI’s Anti-Virus software on the crappy Pentium box (running ’98, one of two remaining Windows computers in this household — and switches across on that one have been considered… more than a few times before).  Twenty minutes later, it’s lost 14 separate viruses… hopefully this will mean that the stupid thing stops creating network storms whenever it is turned on and plugged in to everything else.

I really don’t see WHY viruses are created!  My goodness!  The creators don’t really stand to GAIN from it, and viruses aren’t (for the most part) actually THAT harmful — just bloody annoying and time consuming!  Bleh.  I have no idea exactly what any of those fourteen viruses did… there were some trojans in there, but it really had minimal impact, what with ipchains and NAT running on my Coyote box (that said, I don’t know how much longer I’ll stick with Coyote on that thing… starting to get itchy fingers, wanting to switch it over to Slack or Debian or something and run Samba and Apache, amongst other things, on it.)

Aside from that, I just finished the “product” I’m submitting for this next assessment task (business studies) — they’re only getting a paper manual, though, because source-code is more than I would ever trust that department with, regardless as to it’s actual value (in man hours or anything else: my IP (or clients IP, depending on how you look at it) is more valuable than any crappy assessment they can throw our way).

Hmm.  I’m going to go and work like crazy for about an hour, so I’ve got time to get down to church this evening.  Assessments are bad.  Or rather, the importance I place on them is bad.  Last weekend was pretty terrible… I ended up leaving after our bible study and before church last week, because of my complete lack of time management with that Extension task!

Back to business…