First virus to be broadcasted live on TV
Tuesday, August 16th, 2005While watching CNN, I saw the shutdown box so familiar from Blaster over the TV screen. Soon after that, they stopped broadcasting the regular program and started covering the story on a new virus attacking unpatched Windows 2000 boxes.
It was a weak sign from the digital world which, I believe, is still less important then classic content. I am still assessing the impact of the digital failure on the classic media, and I believe is more of a fuss then of a real impact. Life went on, the rebooted PC’s continued their, while looking for new targets for their infection (multitasking was implemented in Windows 2000, wasn’t it?).
The corporations running on unpatched Windows 2000 presented themselves like they were hiring cheap American CEO’s that saved the 100$ for upgrading to Windows XP and like 10 cents hiring network administrators from India who couldn’t push the updates to the workstations. Included are the already mentioned Time Warner and Coca-Cola.