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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. Virus Activity by Eberlin · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Wouldn't this much virus activity raise the chances of being caught? Pride has been the downfall of a great many "1337 d00dz" who can't seem to avoid bragging about their 5|i77z. Then again, if you did stage such acts, it does nothing for your ego unless people know you did so.

    These are not your stealth haxorz, these are the works of script kiddies. But of course everyone here already knew that.

  2. Re:Yeah, it's a gang war alright... by TCaptain · · Score: 5, Interesting

    you're not kidding.

    At my office, we are using a non-standard email client that doesn't allow execution of code in any way and we still got nailed.

    why?

    The moron in the next cubicle (a PROGRAMMER no less) did this:

    1) viewed the email (after receiving 5 memos specifically saying to just delete it)
    2) clicked on the attachment
    3) selected save as
    4) opened up explorer, went LOOKING for the attachement
    5) executed it by doubleclicking.

    I mean seriously! his defense when confronted?
    "Well I wasn't sure...so...hum...we'll I wouldn't have done that at home!"

    I wanted to beat the crap out of him...

    --
    "I'm not a procrastinator, I'm temporally challenged"
  3. Re:I would like to point out... by b0r0din · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Little damage, my ass. However, I will point out, that on a positive note, I work in a network callcenter, every time one of these babies comes out our call volume spikes by as much as 30%. These virii are at least keeping the calls coming in, which is how we generate cash. So at least for us, it's job security on some scale.

    Of course it doesn't help that people we've helped in the past by emailing them fixes, solutions, and patches have us under our address books, so in turn we get all their email telling us 'Hi.'