One of my friends claims that someone in his company wrote a word virus
that put a modified linux install kernel (modified to be non-selectable,
and tuned to the spec of the computers at his place of business, using one
of the system servers as the nfs load point, so that it would just run
without human interferance, and a timer that said if it was not between 1am
and 7am, just append it to all outgoing mail) and mailed it out at (from
some VP's account that was trivially hacked) about 2:30 in the morning, so
that all the folks who had their mailers on auto-recieve, auto-execute, got
their computers rewritten, and all set up on them. Since the security
department was under suspicion for having a part in this (having recently
published reports to the BOD/Upper Management folks about insecure
passwords, and the need to change, and insecure mail practices) an outside
security company was called in. They managed to do a real bang-up Keystone
Cops style job, and got the VP fired ... after something like a month of
work. Of course, while they were investigating, noone was allowed to
change anything on their system, so folks got real used to linux, and, as
far as I know, most just stuck with it out of inertia. Oh, and the linux
boxen backed themselves up automatically, which never happend on the
windows boxes (people were used to resetting their customizations) so they
were happier that their machines didn't go down as much, and their personal
things managed to stick around longer, even when they did go down.
Dave K>
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