To Virus Writers
July 28th, 2004 • Rants
For the love of God, you can attack Microsoft, you can attack evil cracking sites, heck you can attack the UN, but you do NOT attack Google!!!
Sadly, Google was attacked yesterday by a MyDoom variant, it was down for a while, and when Google’s down, the Internet’s down. Even to non-geeks, Google’s almost the ultimate search engine, not because it gives a lot of results, but because it’s results are relevant. Some people don’t even know what searching is, they know “googling”, slashdotters misspell Yahoo, they have a hard time grasping a foreign concept like “Other” search engines, some think if Google goes down, it’s the end of the world as we know it.
So please, just don’t mess around with sensitive stuff, Google’s not a game you play, next time it won’t be down, and you might be banned forever from searching for “DoS Attack HOWTO” tutorials.