Microsoft Mail Worms Gang War?

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Microsoft Mail Worms Gang War?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday March 4, 2004 @07:34AM from the that-makes-sense dept.

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."

13 of 609 comments (clear)

well... by Savatte · 2004-03-04 07:36 · Score: 5, Funny

Since Microsoft is in Seattle, this could be a real West Side Story.
1. Re:well... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-04 07:52 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  get your singing voices ready... WORM:
  "I like to propagate in America!
  DoS by me in America!
  Network is down in America
  Download me in America!"
2. Re:well... by Bjimba · 2004-03-04 08:00 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  When you're a 1337, you're a l33t all the way,
  From your first kiddie script, till you r00t DEA
  
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  --- question = 0xFF; // optimized Hamlet
3. Re:well... by slaker · 2004-03-04 08:31 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Dear kindly Peter Norton,
  You gotta understand
  It's just our hacker egos
  That gets us outta hand.
  Our friends are all spammers
  Our teachers teach VB
  Holy jebus that's why we are 'leet!
  
  --
  -- I wanna decide who lives and who dies - Crow T. Robot, MST3K
Won't be over soon, either by Matey-O · 2004-03-04 07:36 · Score: 5, Funny

"Plenty of letters left in the alphabet" - J. L. Picard

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"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus."
Poor evil empire by NetDanzr · 2004-03-04 07:38 · Score: 4, Funny

"...intent mostly on spreading far and wide, and sometimes inflicting DoS on some poor evil empire."
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.
Virus gangs by Zangief · 2004-03-04 07:40 · Score: 5, Funny

...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!!
Re:How is this an "ask slashdot"? by FrostedWheat · 2004-03-04 07:40 · Score: 5, Funny

Where's the question?

Dunno, but the answer's 42.
Re:Warnings... by Dave2+Wickham · 2004-03-04 07:44 · Score: 5, Funny

You mean like...
Dear user of "Co.uk" mailing system, We warn you about some attacks on your e-mail account. Your computer may contain viruses, in order to keep your computer and e-mail account safe, please, follow the instructions. Further details can be obtained from attached file. Cheers, The Co.uk team http://www.co.uk
?
Re:latest breed by leifm · 2004-03-04 07:47 · Score: 5, Funny

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'.

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"Windows Me offers tremendous reliability and stability improvements..." -- Paul Thurott
Re:I would like to point out... by tcd004 · 2004-03-04 07:49 · Score: 4, Funny

My god! Look what it did to my website!

Tcd004
Re:Viruses? by Kaa · 2004-03-04 07:55 · Score: 5, Funny

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.

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Kaa
Kaa's Law: In any sufficiently large group of people most are idiots.
Can I ask you a question? by Cumstien · 2004-03-04 08:30 · Score: 5, Funny

A question, what is it?

It's an interrogative statement used to test knowledge, but that's not important right now.