Comments on: Has the First Extraterrestrial (Computer) Virus Been Discovered on the Space Station?

By: Smartcard Cheif

Smartcard Cheif — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:20:11 +0000

Good blog post!

By: bill

bill — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:21:45 +0000

is the milyky way milky

By: bill

bill — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:20:52 +0000

Peace to all space dudes!""
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

By: Bonny

Bonny — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:19:46 +0000

BONY IS COOL AND GETTING REPETATIVE AZ AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

By: Bonny

Bonny — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:19:15 +0000

youve added me no fudging way!!! get out of here.

By: Bonny

Bonny — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:18:24 +0000

This is interesting… im interesting in space i am not spaced out … dude this is cosmic aha!

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:26:13 +0000

No way they couldn't be running windows on the ISS it'd have to be some in house flavor of Linux, I would have thought but hey………….

By: IKE:) the Alien lifeform

IKE:) the Alien lifeform — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:03:12 +0000

Yeah CARNIFEX, what is WINdoof ( WINstupid) doing up there.
How incredibly lax of NASA to allow such a flaw in overall safety and security on the ISS…
What are these people get paid for.

Well, carbon copies, we hope no life-support systems are in any way controlled by computers running MS OS.

By: LLorrac

LLorrac — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:07:23 +0000

What I heard on the news said that the station doesn't have internet access. So at least they stolen data can't be transmitted back to earth.

By: vizzy

vizzy — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:21:42 +0000

omg, wtf? how stupid the nasa people are to use windows ….. yeah. i don't wonder about that.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:21:20 +0000

NORTON? That means Windows is up there. I sure hope they aren't running Vista.

Please, at least use the AVG antivirus, can't they use the free personal version since this isn't for commercial use?

NASA….I have such respect for all you do….but Windows???
I expected Linux or Mac up there. At least we saw an iPod in the windshield a while back and not a Zune!

*sigh*
My day is now sad.

By: Hunnter

Hunnter — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:31:54 +0000

They're using Windows?!?!
I've lost all faith in them…

Windows is the WORST software for mission critical applications and stability.
Set a process to real-time and the GUI ends up locking up when it starts using a fair amount of the CPU, that is how horrible it is.
Fair enough if it is a seperate computer not connected to anything else (outside power).

By: Joe M.

Joe M. — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:38:52 +0000

lol at Norton, why not Avast, it's perfectly fine… Also, they are super rich astronauts, and they have all of NASA to help chip in for the best anti-virus around?

By: Pop

Pop — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:51:10 +0000

Using a laptop without at least two different virus protecting programs is sorta like stepping out the airlock in your spacesuit without zipping up your fly. Both leaving you hanging out in the breeze – so to speak. But, they are rocket scientists. We can't expect them to live in the real world.

By: wowist

wowist — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:40:03 +0000

OMG KEYLOGGERS??+

By: J.E.T.

J.E.T. — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:58:57 +0000

[QUOTE
]# Carnifex Says:
August 26th, 2008 at 3:14 pm

Norton? Who cares about Norton, what is WINDOWS doing up there???
[/QUOTE]

HAHAHAHA! SO TRUE.

By: alan

alan — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:16:37 +0000

If you use windozes, your just begging for trouble.

By: NNM

NNM — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:01:24 +0000

If they use Norton, they are in trouble!! haha
That anti virus is a joke: not only will it not protect you, but it also helps some viruses survive.
Really, if they use Norton, they deserve to get a serious virus. How can you be a "rocket scientist" and not see how useless that program is… They need IT/IS help.

By: Tech Roach

Tech Roach — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:34:43 +0000

The article title is misleading. I thought they received some kinda mysterious virus from outer space; which is stupid cuz how the hell cud aliens knw our system architecture and stuff.

Anyway, if it was aliens. I should say they were really good at C and TCP/IP. lol ^_^

By: Klaatu

Klaatu — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:14:48 +0000

It is breathtaking that they even consider using Windows in that environment. Imagine "blue screen of death sends ISS hurtling into Earth's atmosphere" or "Astronauts suffocate whilst Windows XP reboots." This sounds incredibly risky – you'd have thought they'd use a unix/linux variant especially developed for the ISS.

By: mandydax

mandydax — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:42:04 +0000

@Skunkwaffle:

/2 there prbly loserz who play {opposing.faction}.

Teehee

Seriously, why is that OS not *nix-based?

By: Skunkwaffle

Skunkwaffle — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:28:36 +0000

Hmm, what server are these guys on.

Think they'll join my guild?

By: alandee

alandee — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:27:15 +0000

That's what happens when you surf p0rn sites ..

By: Invader Xan

Invader Xan — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:41:23 +0000

As regards antivirus software, I think XKCD (again) said it best…
http://www.xkcd.com/463/

By: quantum_flux

quantum_flux — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:30:46 +0000

No big deal :O