Last weekend the laptop was hit with a string of 14 viruses that my anti-virus software missed the first time (but not on restart the following time) or the backup that I use failed to grab.
As I tend rarely to vary my choice of websites (a fairly standard set of mainstream non-controversial sites for language work, IT recruitment sites, sports news, current affairs, Yahoo, Google, YouTube, Blogger and the like) and my wife uses one site from her native country, it is difficult to see where these attacks came from.
It was a pain in the neck clearing them, but we are finally there and all discussions about spending money we do not have on a replacement laptop or PC have ceased for now.
This morning, bright and early (my wife needing to get up early for her morning shift at the airport, waking me up in the process and then insomnia setting in), I embarked upon checking round google on virus creation and the like.
There are a seemingly astonishing number of places where people can get instructions on how to write a virus, how to store a virus, how to load a stored virus usw.
If these were being used to attack mega-corporations and the like (a sort of Internet version of the Occupy movement), I could understand the logic - even if I do not agree with the method.
As it is though, the thinking seems to be pretty much on the brainless idiot, criminal approach to these things. Let's cause as much havoc to all the suckers out there usw. Even if we don't know the individuals involved .... This is fun? For brainless idiots, maybe, end of story.
One point that I would raise is that if I can find this information on google without trying too hard, why are the anti-criminal organisations that we pay round the world to protect us not doing more to counter this nonsense? Last time that I checked it is a criminal offence to cause damage using a virus. Getting at the point of creation should not be that difficult for a trained observer. And making it a very expensive hobby might help curb the practice!
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