Alan Bourke wrote:
"The first lesson was that the Internet isn’t an innocent place any
more. When IE6 was under development 6 years ago, viruses were
inconveniences and true Internet crime wasn’t a concern."
Um, that's back in 2000. I seem to remember internet crime in 2000. I
think the fact that they didn't think there were security threats back
then led to them frantically scrabbling to patch security up in the
interim, actually.
More revisionist history from Microsoft.
Larous virus, exploit vs Excel, June, 1996
CAP virus, Word virus, 1997
etc. throughout the '90s......
Melissa, April 99, spread through email
Back Orifice, 1999
Bubbleboy, Nov 1999, exploited holes in MSFT's HTML rendering, IE 4
Chode/911, used Windows file sharing, 2000
ILOVEYOU, May 2000
Anna, February 2001
Code Red, Summer, 2001
Nimda, September 2001
Klez, October, 2001
All these petty little "inconveniences"....
Yeah, the world was an innocent place 6 years ago.
Whil
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