The Life of Lou Ruppert

I had to meet with another student today about the Trojan. I guess nobody wants to really believe that their mac is infected unless someone shows them in person. We’ll call this student Manni, for lack of a better name. It’s not his name. Manni’s mac had the same problems as the other ones. Sotov’s DNS servers had taken over his Internet connection. He seemed to understand my explanation well enough, but I couldn’t help but feel bad for him. He had a bunch of software he didn’t have the install media for, which he’d lose by reinstalling the Mac. I guess it’s a lesson that you should always back up your stuff, even if it’s something you just downloaded or borrowed from a friend. Disaster could strike any one of us. If it’s not a trojan, it’s a hard drive failure.

The interesting thing about Manni’s situation, assuming I understood it correctly, was that he’d never downloaded any software that required a password. I wonder if pirate software might have been shipped with Sotov’s DNS hack included with it. There are more reasons than just legal technicalities for not using stuff you download off of BitTorrent. Really, you have no idea where it’s been.

I wore a bit of orange with my green today for Saint Patrick’s Day. Saint Patrick was an Englishman.

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