“Microsoft accidentally sent the virulent Nimda worm to South Korean developers when it distributed Korean-language versions of Visual Studio .Net that carried the virus, the company acknowledged Friday. Microsoft’s flagship developer tools picked up the digital pest when a third-party company translated the program into Korean, said Christopher Flores, lead product manager for Visual Studio .Net.” Read the story at C|Net News.
Microsoft Accidentally Distributes Virus
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Too funny. They admit it happened, but, they are also sure to place blame on the translators. Not that it wasn’t the translators fault, but, MS still shipped it, which makes it their fault. Where’s the QA?
Microsoft does QA through public betas don’t they? Therefore it is Korea’s fault for not testing it as thoroughly as they should have during the Beta cycle.
I’m not a Microsoft fan at all, but this wasn’t there fault entirely. I’m sure when Microsoft hires an outside company they do strict background checking of said company, therefore a trust is established and was then broken by the Korean translation company by them not doing the necessary security measures inhouse.
“under Microsoft’s security policy, the company normally scans every file being transferred to the master of a program. But in this case, the company only analyzed files it expected to find”
Sorry, but before we put any software out we always check for virus. Same as email and Internet traffic. To say it’s someone elses fault because we didn’t check it properly whiffs a bit!
I’m would think under that same security policy, an outside company would also be required to do something similar wouldn’t you think?
Excuse my spelling, my english is sometimes improper.
Is Nimda a Service Pack ? 😉
<wipes tears from eyes>
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LOL!!!!!!
I told you so!
nope it’s a feature 😉