by ezs | Jul 6, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
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I found an interesting article via Digg about twenty years of computer viruses.
Touch wood I’ve been virus free for a dozen years. Good practice and a well honed sense of paranoia I guess.
My ‘virus claim to fame’ was being one of the first people to find ‘SMEG.Pathogen‘ in the wild – this was in the summer of 1994. I found it on a hard drive from a customers laptop.
It infected a lot of my floppy disks and my main PC. I vividly remember thinking that ’something was wrong’ with my system – and I took an example of an infected executable to the Dr Solomon’s labs in Aylesbury on a day off. I remember meeting Graham Clulely and getting some raw code to at least detect and quarantine this first polymorphic virus.
I had to give a few statements to the police – including a ‘financial impact statement’ describing how much the outbreak had personally cost me and my company.
The virus author – Chris Pile – was famously sentenced to 18 months.
I’d love to hear your stories of close encounters with viruses and malware. Feel free to comment – anonymously if needed.
Written at: Draper, UT
by ezs | Jul 6, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Technology, Uncategorized

I found an interesting article via Digg about twenty years of computer viruses.
Touch wood I’ve been virus free for over a dozen years. Good practice and a well honed sense of paranoia I guess.
My ‘virus claim to fame’ was being one of the first people to find ‘SMEG.Pathogen‘ in the wild – this was in the summer of 1994. I found it on a hard drive from a customers laptop.
It infected a lot of my floppy disks and my main PC. I vividly remember thinking that ‘something was wrong’ with my system – and I took an example of an infected executable to the Dr Solomons labs in Aylesbury on a day off. I remember meeting Graham Clulely and getting some raw code to at least detect and quarantine this first polymorphic virus.
I had to give a few statements to the police – including a ‘financial impact statement’ describing how much the outbreak had personally cost me and my company.
The virus author – Chris Pile – was famously sentenced to 18 months.
by ezs | Jul 3, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized, wordpress
I’m struggling with some defects in WordPress 2.0.3 – specifically around the widget configurations.
I’ll dig into the code later – but for now I’m stuck with some half working widgets. Oh well.
by ezs | Jul 2, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Gonetoutah, Technology, Uncategorized, Utah
So finally we got to see "An Inconvenient Truth" - and it was stunning. A really well produced - but not slick and markety - and thought provoking film.
Al Gore did a great job of presenting the arguments - and did so in a very humbling, personal way.
A "must see" for everyone. Actually - I'll make that stronger - if you live in the developed world - and especially within the US - you must see this movie. Go with an open mind.
by ezs | Jul 1, 2006 | evilzenscientist, fun stuff, Uncategorized, Utah
I took some nice pictures last September of a massive storm over Draper.

I tried again last night – but the storm was too far away.
I did get some interesting long exposure shots – look at this 20 second exposure of an almost pitch black sky:

by ezs | Jul 1, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Gonetoutah, Uncategorized

… again.
Not a lot I can say really. I thought we would be getting Germany and losing on penalties.
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