*groan* Angry hangover man says:

People who create computer viruses. Total motherfuckers.
How I hate them, oooh I hate them, I do. Because I'm a caring, sharing, hippy type of chap (usually) I have tried, as I hopefully always do, to see it from everyone's point of view.
I've really struggled to understand the mentality of people who create viruses that damage and disrupt people's computers - other people's personal property - for their own amusement, and have only just about been able to see it from their side: all I can think of in their defence (except the ones who nick personal data and steal money, it's pretty obvious what their excuse is) is that they have no way to be respected or really be heard in life, and they feel power and influence in knowing that they've affected people. Infected people. Cost them money and a lot of time, mostly.
In truth though they are nothing but vicious cowards.

Having listened to a few boasts by some of these idiots, read around on a few forums and worked out something of it by inference, I know that a lot of justification is thrown up by these hackers, or whatever they call themselves (the term `hacker` is the subject of much dispute. Don't even ask, it's terminally uninteresting) in that because they know so much about coding, hacking, and computers in general then all the silly little users out there (you, me, and 4 billion others) deserve to suffer their attacks because we don't have the savvy to protect ourselves like they can. A lot of these folks think they should have the deeds to the web, and that they deserve to own it and run it as they like.

Well fine, by that count none of them are allowed to drive cars themselves unless they can rebuild their own engine, and they can't go abroad on holiday unless they can materialise their own passport and international travel permissions out of their arse.
Or, better yet, because they don't know how to operate an agricultural farm or fishery, breed livestock, or process chickens and dairy cattle then they CAN'T BLOODY EAT ANY MORE.

Thought so: stick that in your Trojan_Horse.exe and smoke it, jackass.

There's a site out in the big WWW called MoneySavingExpert.com and it's run purely to help people save money instead of needlessly giving it to their banks, insurance companies, phone operators and the like. What the guy who runs it does is find the best deals possible, pretty much, in very sophisticated ways.
If you've heard of the whole `reclaim your bank charges` thing then this is the guy who did it, and he's saved (and is saving) literally millions of pounds for people in doing so. He's now onto another nasty trick of the high street banks, most of whom announced profits, thats PROFITS not turnover, of between 1 and 5 Billion Pounds last year...
Pretty nice thing to do eh? Kind of the opposite of those hacker types who want only to damage and disrupt things, ya might say.

I just read this:

"MoneySavingExpert.com Attacked! Since last Friday the site has been the target of a massive, deliberate DDOS attack. Put simply, someone’s been simulating billions of visitors to crash the servers; and for three days it worked (read more). It's mostly fixed, but if you find a problem or slowness, please stick with us.

This may’ve saved the banks £10s millions. The attack coincided with the launch of the PPI reclaiming campaign and my ITV Tonight programme (watch it) on reclaiming. Let me make it clear, I don’t think the banks are behind it. Yet I do think it's likely the timing was deliberate to cause maximum damage to the site; and a by-product is it's probably saved the banks £10s millions.

I need every MoneySaver's help. The PPI campaign's momentum has been lost; many 1,000s came for the free template letters and only got an error page. Please spread the word at the water-cooler, the pub, e-mail your mates, at family get togethers. Ask them “have you got insurance on a loan, credit card or mortgage?”. If they have tell them “you may’ve been missold it and could get thousands back…” and direct them to the article. Don’t let those who tried to kill the site win.

Thank you for all the messages of support."

What a bastard. Whoever did that, did double the damage in one fell swoop - excellently timed and massive in it's effect - yes well done have a cookie you complete and utter c*** - but really someone ought to bloody well tar and feather 'em!
And hit them, with something heavy. A building'd be favourite.

Grrrr......

Update: the PC at home was going screwy the morning of this little tirade as well, which wasn't improving my mood or opinions of the people who create malicious code (viruses) and now the machine is totally destroyed and needs formatting, erasing, completely restarting and the technological equivalent of sending in the marines.
Bastards, total bastards, with a capital F.