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Sharpei virus hits C# note | |
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| Time: 11:30 EST/16:30 GMT | News Source: CNET | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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Virus writers took another shot at Microsoft's .Net vision. On Friday, antivirus companies received a copy of a worm called Sharpei, which is partially written in Microsoft's newest computer language, C#, and designed to infect computers loaded with the .Net framework. Antivirus company Network Associates gave the infectious program a "low" rating for risk but highlighted it as the second example of a virus writer attempting to infect parts of the .Net framework. | ||
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| #1 By 135 (208.50.201.48) at 3/2/2002 1:26:51 PM |
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I think it's a 17 year old woman.
I don't know what is the big deal, a virus can be written to target any platform. |
| #2 By 20 (24.243.32.227) at 3/2/2002 1:58:20 PM |
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Ah yes, more FUD coming from C|Net.
As we see yet again, C|Net is levying an all out attack on everything MS. I love how they purposely mislead you to think that MS has proclaimed .NET somehow virus-free and that they have failed. What CNet DOESN'T tell you, of course, is that .NET is no less vulnerable to viruses than any other piece of code anywhere. What .NET DOES offer, in terms of security, (and this is what CNet is delibrately getting confused) is that you can run parts of .NET in a sandbox similar to Java Applets (but better :). Standard applications written in .NET, C++, VB, Delphi, et al have free reign of the system and can do anything the user can do (including deleting files, sending emails, etc). -d |
| #3 By 3653 (68.53.80.99) at 3/2/2002 2:07:41 PM |
| Wow, this is GREAT. I read the ActiveWin summary of th article and your comments... but didn't go to the CNet page. They won't get any more clicks from me. CNet is banned from my computer. |
| #4 By 20 (24.243.32.227) at 3/2/2002 4:25:19 PM |
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#5:
Because there is more control. The user has more options and finer-grained control. There is also an official and fully supported signing and strongly-named authentication system (which Java still doesn't have after many years). I could go on and get into more detail if you want, but it's pretty boring beyond that. |
| #5 By 20 (24.243.32.227) at 3/2/2002 4:29:46 PM |
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JOC, Is there anyone out there that still doubts CNet's anti-MS bias? I mean, it's almost beyond bias now, they make a concerted effort to bash and thwart any MS initiative -- even good ones that right many of MS' previous wrongs, like .NET.
It makes me sick really, that people allow inidividuals like the CNet editor to have so much influence and power in the media without questioning their motives. |
| #6 By 2332 (165.247.11.40) at 3/2/2002 6:44:21 PM |
| It would be impossible for the virus to infect any part of the managed framework itself because each assembly that makes up the framework is strongly signed and if it is modified in any way, .NET applications would not load it, and fail. |
| #7 By 135 (208.50.201.48) at 3/2/2002 10:31:56 PM |
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I was willing to take the Anonymous challenge, and tried to retrieve whatever was on that site with netcat. Site is unavailable.
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