Halloa! Below there! When he heard a voice thus calling to him, he was standing at the door of his box, with a flag in his hand, furled round its short pole.

Having recently been released from prison, he didn't know what to do with his newfound freedom.

He's the new kid on the block and doesn't know the way we do things around here yet. Cut him some slack and let him learn from this.

As soon as a virus programmer discovers that some popular ActiveX thing has a bug that can be exploited, e.g. with controlled crashes to inject code, it's going to be a disaster.