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Microsoft Mail Worms Gang War?
cuzality writes "The media is now beginning to suggest that this recent onslaught of new viruses (with new versions of major-impact viruses being found daily) the result of a virus gang turf war, kinda like the India/Pakistan virus conflict, in which official Pakistani sites were savaged by such infamous groups as Indian Snakes and Indian Hackers Club. The gangs are shooting fast and loose: variations of the big ones are being discovered daily (as of March 4, we are up to MyDoom.H, Netsky.F, and Beagle.K), and in the space of three hours on Wednesday morning, five variants of these three were first discovered. Typically these viruses (or more correctly, worms) do little damage to the infected computer, intent mostly on spreading far and wide, and sometimes inflicting DoS on some poor evil empire."
Since Microsoft is in Seattle, this could be a real West Side Story.
"Plenty of letters left in the alphabet" - J. L. Picard
"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus."
Actually, the evil empire isn't all that poor; it's got several billion dollard in cash. And the poor wannabe empire isn't poor either; apparently it got a $86 million cash injection, thanks to the evil empire.
...kinda like the India/Pakistan virus conflict, in which official Pakistani sites were savaged by such infamous groups as Indian Snakes and Indian Hackers Club...
Seems like virus writers also got oursourced to India!!
Where's the question?
Dunno, but the answer's 42.
Yeah, but they've been secretly building their own Deathstar, which is hidden behind the Moon, for years now. I'm not so worried about the Evil Empire using it as when it gets 0wn3d.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Yeah we apparently got that. Seems a bit odd to me that a worm can propagate when you have to enter a key to run it, for god's sake that's like getting a grenade in the mail with a note saying 'Pull this pin and hold'.
"Windows Me offers tremendous reliability and stability improvements..." -- Paul Thurott
My god! Look what it did to my website!
Tcd004
What's pitiful is how the AV service automatically updates its virus definitions daily. But at the rate these variants are coming out I am manually updating in the middle of the workday as well. I almost get misty eyed back when Microsoft-based threats were just relatively minor nuisances like Word macro viruses!
"...and sometimes inflicting DoS on some poor evil empire." Or in the case of sco.com, an evil feifdom.
Let us not become the evil that we deplore.
Imagine if e-mail was just plain old ASCII text with no attachment support. *sigh*
YOU HAVE NOW RECEIVED THE UNIX VIRUS
This virus works on the honor system:
If you're running a variant of unix or linux, please forward this message to everyone you know and delete a bunch of your files at random.
Kaa
Kaa's Law: In any sufficiently large group of people most are idiots.
Oh yea? I got you beat!
We had and emplyee actually gather a croud around her desk to watch her open it. They were all very disappointed to see that our virus filters had stripped it!
Great, tell everyone my password why don't you
Geekleak.com - Silly name, serious geeks
Although this sentence is not a question, it ends in a question mark?
A question, what is it?
It's an interrogative statement used to test knowledge, but that's not important right now.
Here's a conspiracey theory for you...
Indian virus writers are writing virues to increase call volumes so more companies will outsource their anwering centers to India...
More likely some punk somewhere gets a charge off the idea that they alone can cause world wide mayhem...
Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.