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Microsoft Mail Worms Gang War?

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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."

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  1. I would like to point out... by chrisopherpace · · Score: 5, Informative

    MyDoom.F does destroy word, excel, access, jpg, and other files.
    SARC
    This was a major headache for me the past few weeks. Backup tapes suck. Worms suck harder.

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  2. Warnings... by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm getting some forged emails lately, badly forged at that, which look like they're coming from my ISP, "warning viruses being sent from your account", "warning immenent suspension", etc. They have a pif file atteched (which I never open) and have been coming from .lt or .gr servers (my ISP would not likely be using these.) Looks to me like another brand of worm on the rounds and there's a morbid sense of humor behind it.

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    1. Re:Warnings... by Hayzeus · · Score: 5, Informative

      I doubt humor is involved -- the point is to get people to open the zip and run the archived file -- which you have to go to some trouble to do, given that the zip is password protected (to get by email scanners). I've had a couple of users here contact me about these, but nobody has run them yet. Of course I only have a few users, most reasonably clueful. This would probably suck for larger outfits.

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  3. Re:Turf? by glen604 · · Score: 5, Informative

    since some of these viruses involve opening back doors, it's a turf war in the sense of who owns more zombie computers, I guess.