Second life virtual world attacked by virus and/or alligator
all happened sunday and the only thing I noticed was a pop-up
announcing that they were locking logins for a while to get rid of a
hack. So I went on building my weapons and looking at virtual breasts
until another message came up announcing that everything was fixed.
But for some reason, this ITWIRE site in Australia decided to
bring in a “writer” from Fox News to announce that SECOND LIFE HAS BEEN ATTACKED BY GREY GOO AND WAS DOWN ALL WEEKEND EVERYONE PANICE!
You can always recognize a hack news writer when their headlines
end with “Will this happen again?” or “Could it happen here?” or “How
can we protect our children?” Television news is great at this,
covering us with brain slime such as: “Blizzard kills millions of
penguins, could it happen here in Hawaii?”
The house painter who wrote this should have waited until after his second beer to submit the final copy; “…needing to take the world offline over the weekend and clean it of all sings of the virus..”
That is just pain wrong in so many ways. Perhaps this is the same
twinky who writes all those “Mac users exposed to virus that destroys
keyboards!” stories. No wait, those come from Symantec.
Second life rtual world attacked by virus or wormGrey goo infects the virtual world with golden rings that seem to havebeen inspired by the rings in the classic game ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’. With the virus causing a heavy load on the servers, Second Life needed to be shut down and cleansed before going online once more. Will this happen again?
A virus has infected a virtual world, and there’s no Matrix like Neo saviour in sight, flying around the world zapping the bug with his super matrix-y powers. Instead, Second Life’s technicians needing to take the world offline over the weekend and clean it of all sings of the virus before turning it all back on again.
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