64-Bit Rugrat Virus Emerges

weekendwarrior1980 writes "The first computer virus to target 64-bit Windows systems has been detected by security authorities. Dubbed "W64.Rugrat.3344," the virus is a fairly benign, proof-of-concept infection agent, according to a report issued on the Symantec Web site. This threat does not infect 32-bit systems and will not run on 32-bit Windows platforms. It is a direct-action infector, typically exiting memory after execution, and is written in IA64 (Intel Architecture) assembly code." Update: 05/29 19:26 GMT by T : Yes, this is the same "non-event" virus already mentioned.

Comments

Hey, kids!

[Rick Zeman]

It's time for the summer reruns!!!

Re:Hey, kids!

[leerpm]

So does this mean when the first 128-bit based virus debuts we can expect 4 posts about it? :)

64 bit eh?

[2MuchC0ffeeMan]

since it has twice the bits it gets twice the postings... yay!

Re:64 bit eh?

[Wordsmith]

So it's going to be posted four times in total?

Re:64 bit eh?

[DrEldarion]

Actually, it gets 4294967296 times the postings. Crap.

Proof of Concept?

[Prince Vegeta SSJ4]

proof of concept? PROOF OF CONCEPT you say!

I couldve proven that a virus was possible

• 64 bit Windows

There, I proved it's posible

The title of the article should be

[slyxter]

"First duplicate article on the 64 bit windows virus found!" more at eleven.

Well now that dident take too long did it.

[Coolmoe]

That has got to be comforting to people making 64 bit OS's. There is code waiting!

Now finally a way to make your 64bit computer feel more like your 32bit ones.

Rugrat

[LGagnon]

"W64.Rugrat.3344", soon to be followed by "W64.Reptar.3344".

In other news...

[networkGhettoWhore]

The SD.DupeStory.2004 virus has been running rampant. Although, experts claim it is simply an operator error.

Re:People please!

[uss_valiant]

oing to the Search page, typing "Rugrat", and clicking the "Search" button already brings up a stor[...]

Rugrat, who remembers Rugrat? I searched for "virii" *lol*!

The payload

[blowdart]

This threat does not infect 32-bit systems and will not run on 32-bit Windows platforms. It is a direct-action infector, typically exiting memory after execution, and is written in IA64 (Intel Architecture) assembly code

The payload causes infected windows machines to resubmit the same story to slashdot every day, in the hope that a duplicate story will arise.

Richard Stallman was quoted as saying the virus was sourced at Microsoft in an attempt to make linux news sites look silly, then requested that the source for the virus be published openly under a FSF license. SCO then claimed that they had the first 64 bit virus, and were now going to sue the author and every owner of an infected machine. Larry Elison was rumoured to say that the Oracle 64bit virus ran faster and cheaper than an MS 64 bit virus and stood grinning until someone pointed out that Bill Gates can buy him 10 times over.

Lower TCO.

[rice_burners_suck]

For immediate release: M5FT today announced that by using Windows, enterprises cut their TCO and increase the time employees have for coffee breaks. By leveraging innovative technologies, content providers streamline compelling enterprise solutions.

Gill Bates, the Architect of Windows and the Matrix, was pleased to say, "Our studies have proven that an eMachines costing $500 and running Windows XP has a lower TCO for opening a 2kb email than does a cluster of 1000 IBM z360 mainframes running Linux performing the same task. The cost, using Windows, was about 1 cents per bit, while the cost of the Linux setup was about $88,281,813.25 per byte. Clearly, Windows is much less expensive than Linux.

"Further," said Gill Bates, "employees get more coffee breaks while Windows is reinstalling after a virus breakout. With a Linux environment, the employees of your enterprise might have to work all day long, because the operating system simply isn't considerate enough to offer a coffee break or two every ten minutes."

I say..

[modifried]

.. we all head over to the previously posted article and post other users' +5, Informative/Interesting/Insightful responses as our own, on here.

Re:I say..

[nukka]

Re:W32/Shrug (Score:5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 27, @12:23PM (#9268580) Don't say something like that. You're going to start an endless thread of "Back in my days we used [ancient technology] and liked it" ... "Yes, but when I was young, we used [even more ancient technology]!" [ Reply to This | Parent ] technology? (Score:5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 27, @01:41PM (#9269766) Technology? You had TECHNOLOGY? Why you kids got it easy, WE didn't have technology, no sir! Why, first we had to walk UP-hill, 83 miles, to the sacred valley, then we had to get naked, smear ourselves with cowdung and ashes, eat magic mushrooms and DREAM about technology! That's all WE Had, and we LIKED IT!

New gentoo package

[gmuslera]

emerge rugrat

to try the newest gentoo/64 package

Time for a new slogan:

[dark-br]

News for the Amnesiac. Stuff that mattered.

What about us Gentoo users?!

[chris_eineke]

$ emerge rugrat

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies
emerge: there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to satisfy "rugrat". :-(