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Surprises

by Brett

Fri, Jun 10th 2005 2:38pm





Malware Gets Resounding Applause From Gypsy Music Haters

from the happily-infected dept

With all the excessive attention to security warnings and painstaking coverage of every minor virus threat, the assumption is that viruses are always bad. But what happens when a virus is viewed by some computer users as helpful? This is what recently happened in Romania, where users welcomed a virus that deletes gypsy music from hard drives. No doubt it bothered lots of people who wanted to get rid of it, but the virus went over so well with others they rebelled against the anti-virus firm that released an update against the virus. One customer called it a "utilitarian tool" and offered food and drink to the virus writer. He would accept the offer, but he's probably too busy creating the Celine.D virus and Yanni Don't Love Bug.

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    Anti-Gypsy sentiment in Romania

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    Matt, Jun 10th, 2005 @ 5:18pm

    One would get the impression that there's a bit of animosity in Romania against Gypsys.

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    Re: Anti-Gypsy sentiment in Romania

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    Anonymous Coward, Jun 10th, 2005 @ 5:55pm

    You betcha. Gypsies in Europe have received more generous welfare benefits than our blacks, so they are even more violent and lazier. My Hungarian friend tells me that America did a good job making blacks work hard, compared to the gypsies in Europe.

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    Re: Anti-Gypsy sentiment in Romania

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    someone, Jun 11th, 2005 @ 7:16pm

    could this be marketing on BitDefender's part?

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    Re: Anti-Gypsy sentiment in Romania

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    anti-anti, Jun 12th, 2005 @ 10:43am

    Hey asshole, "your blacks" built this damn country, along with "our Chinese", "our Irish", "our Italians", and more recently, "our Mexicans".

    So shut your dumb ignorant arse.

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    Re: Anti-Gypsy sentiment in Romania

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    flaimbait bob, Jun 12th, 2005 @ 11:22pm

    Whaaa???? Are you saying that only Blacks, Chinese, Irish, Italians, and "more recently" Mexicans built this country?

    *You ignorant swine!*

    You forgot the contributions of our Native Americans, the many people from Iceland, Cuban refugees, Australians, and many others!!

    *You sir are ignorant!*

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    No Subject Given

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    Matt, Jun 13th, 2005 @ 5:26am

    I don't quite understand why people who didn't want gypsy music on their machine, had gypsy music on their machine (that they were unable to get rid of)?

    Is there some music forwarding service stuffing zombie machines with this stuff (perhaps it's a test of the RIAA to plant copyrighted items :0 )

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