MS set up $5 mil as bounty for virus writers

[gethan]

[news.bbc.co.uk...]

[rant]
MS again place the blame for the virus epidemic in the wrong place, stealthly trying to equate virus writers as extreme criminals on a par with murders rapists et al. Virus writers are generally curious teenagers who write simplistic code that exploits gaping holes in crap software.

A company that produces such shoddy, insecure software should be held to account! It is human nature to exploit flaws in systems... no bank would set up a cash point in a similar way! If a bank set up a system where the victims (those that lost money) were the other customers then the bank would be held more or equally to blame!
[/rant]

... anyone else agree/disagree?

[Macguru]

Chndru beat you! ;)

[webmasterworld.com...]

M$ simply needs to show people they are taking security seriously. It's just PR BS, and it works! I saw that on National News yesterday. Average Joe is now reassured that M$ is doing something about security. But I doubt this will have any impact on advanced computer users.

The bright side is Interpol, FBI and the likes have a new resource to work with and the money comes from the right place.

I wonder how much they spent on studying some OS that does not expose raw sockets, or some custom programming language to link common applications to it?

One thing is for sure, I wont snicth EliteWeb [webmasterworld.com] for 250 000! ;)

[Trisha]

Is it just me or does this remind anyone else of Google asking for spam reports? MS can't or doesn't know how to make their OS and software without security holes, so they ask other people to turn in those who are exploiting the weaknesses.

We already learned:
There is no spam, only bad search engine algorithms.

Is it safe to say:
There are no viruses, only bad OS?

[lawman]

>>does this remind anyone else of Google asking for spam reports?

I have no trouble distinguishing the two scenarios.

lawman