The Troika Virus
What’s dumber than a virus intended to “revive the golden era” of virii?
The nitwits what designed and coded it, that’s what.
Here’s how the description should really read…
The virus will then hit at random, but only once. It will not replicate itself, mail itself to your friends or destroy any of your files, but instead provides you with moments of blissful surprise and magic…at least until you get a pink slip for violating your company’s usage policy for intentionally infecting company machines with a virus, that is.
Yeah, I know…harsh. Know what’s harsher? The amount of money burnt on time-wasting productivity-killing b.s. like this.
Best of all?
This so-called virus is Mac only.
|| posted by chris under clueless, kma, thumbs down, timekiller || || ||
You do realize that this was a hoax? 5 minutes of googling, or even trying to go to the web address at the end of the video is enough to see that no such thing exists. It’s just really a clever piece of video editing. Even if it were real, they say at the end of the video not to try it in real life. Get a sense of humor, seriously.
comment by Tom — April 1, 2008 @ 12:58 pm
@ Tom…
What an absolutely perfect day for your asinine comment, which includes no proof of your assertion that Troika is a hoax.
After one minute of Googling…
http://www.troika.uk.com/virus.htm
Real or not…
in the wild or not…
malicious or not…
There’s a real cost to prank B.S. in the workplace, even assuming some panicky user doesn’t lose data.
Let’s take it one step further. Have you reviewed the code of Troika? If not, how do you know if it is malicious or not?
Get a clue, seriously.
comment by chris — April 1, 2008 @ 2:43 pm
Dude, if you’re so concerned about time wasted in the workplace, cease and desist blogging now and lobby Congress to shut down youtube.
Fer crying out loud, the site’s called “welcome to the funcave.” Get a sense of humor already.
comment by mark — April 6, 2008 @ 2:44 pm
@ Mark…
This is one of those issues which I consider a line in the sand, not to be crossed.
The difference between any type of automated code, and the stuff you just mentioned, is that the latter are voluntary behaviors on the part of the user.
Same as eBay, ESPN, and a billion other things that people can use to screw off during the day. Which makes them an an HR issue, a very important distinction.
And FTR…
I happen to be of the opinion that a certain amount of time off-task is important to keep from getting hyper-crazy tunnelvision.
But when it comes to a virus on a data system, that’s nothing that anyone who is a serious IT professional should take lightly. Not ever.
And the only ones who do have never had to deal with the aftermath of an infection.
So yeah, think of Troika however you want. That’s your prerogative.
But making light of it?
You won’t see that here at the Funcave.
comment by chris — April 6, 2008 @ 7:07 pm
I just found out about this. I don’t know what you are getting all up in arms about, it’s just a light hearted cute ‘virus’ for the macbook’s accelerometer.
comment by Matt — September 10, 2008 @ 7:12 pm