I just finished reading an article about open source applications that could contain viurses, trojans, or worms.  The reality is that anybody could post up an application, and there is nobody to really check if the application is really legitimate. I never actually considered that an application I download could have worms or viruses, but now I have to do a double take.

Luckily, my web developement practices usually involves me creating applications from scratch, and if I do use open source apps, I tend to go for popular tried and true names.  I have been considering using more open source web applications to save time on projects, but I think I will just stick with creating my own set of libraries. At least I know that the things I’ve created don’t have viruses and trojans.

Also to add onto that thought, my computer had been invaded by a trojan called vundo, and it created a nightmare for me in the last week. I just reformatted my computer, and realized that I didn’t back up the projects I was working on.  Luckily I have my clients work uploaded onto a server, but I lost the code to my own website I was working on, it was going to be a version 2 of the curiosity media site. But the good news is that I wasn’t too far into the redesign, so it won’t be too bad to recover. I hate people who create these viruses, and if I had telekenetic abilities, I would blow up all their heads.

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