Re: Blackworm: those who forget the past...

[TheGesus <thegesus () gmail com>]

On 1/28/06, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah
<rMslade () shaw ca> wrote:
> > Michelangelo Fiasco: a Historical Timeline
>
> We were, in 1992, a) completely media unsavvy, and b) a victim of our own
> success.  There were many examples of huge numbers of Michelangelo infections
> being caught and disinfected in the weeks leading up to March 6.  We should have
> been prepared, on the day, with the stories of how many computers we saved.

At the time, I was surrounded by Macs at work, and at home I ran a
BBS.  I ran that board for ten years, scanned every file that ever
came in, and never found a single virus.  Viruses were  always S.E.P.
(Someone Else's Problem) and until I changed jobs in 1995 I never
realized what a shithole "Wintel" IT departments could be.

Those were simpler days... we laughed at people who said they got a
virus from an email.

Good Times.  :-)

Still, the hype around Blackworm is too much to take seriously.

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