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Windows Users Fear Korgo Virus

Posted by michael on from the run-in-circles-scream-and-shout dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A new virus is on the prowl that can infect your Windows XP/2K system and record every key you hit on your keyboard. The keys are then sent back to the virus creator where he/she can steal your passwords and credit card information. The virus named, Korgo, started showing up in the last week of May but it now has at least six different variants. To protect yourself from this nasty virus, Microsoft is urging all users to download the KB835732 Security Update. As with the Sasser worm, you'll get the Korgo virus without even knowing it. It does not arrive by email, but simply by being connected to a network or to the Internet without having a patched machine or a properly configured firewall."

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  1. Darwinism by r_glen · · Score: 0, Troll

    Users who run Windows AND haven't installed a patch that's six weeks old? Talk about the bottom 5% of the internet. It's a shame this thing doesn't permanently sever their connection instead. :)
    Blame Microsoft for Sasser, but blame yourself for this one.

    1. Re:Darwinism by cortana · · Score: 0, Troll
      Why? Because, like OS X and unlike windows, they behave predictably and do not mysteriously break or change behavior for no apparent reason. This alone, in the words of my 14 year old niece, made learning Linux worth its while. Not randomly losing her homework to Microsoft crashes or spywar induced bugs helped solidify that opinion.

      You are dead right.

      Take two puppies (twins, to make this scientific). Your objective is to train them to perform a trick (it doesn't matter which trick).

      The first puppy will be rewarded when it performs a task well, and punished when it performs a task poorly.

      The second puppy will be rewarded and punished randomly, independant of whether it suceeds or fails.

      Which puppy will become a healthy, well adjusted dog? Which one will become a miserable, shivering wreck; afraid to leave the corner of the room it spends all its time being confused, and fucked up in?

      Put people in front of a Windows machine, and they will learn nothing. Give them the Mac OS or Linux, and they are empowered. The system's predictable behaviour allows users to explore it, without having to live in constant fear of changing something that alters something else, creating a knock-on effect that breaks their OS and destroys their data.

  2. another week, another patch by MoFoQ · · Score: 0, Troll

    After paying high prices for the software to begin with, we have to really work to keep it secure (as it's suppose to be advertised as).

    It's too bad Microsoft doesn't pay us to do all this extra patching.

  3. Re:KB835732 by Luscious868 · · Score: 1, Troll
    Hmmm...a fix for the fix. Interesting.

    Hehe, that's funny until you consider that it's Microsoft were talking about and that there have been fixes for fixes for fixes ... which is just plain said :-)

  4. Re:short lived? by /dev/trash · · Score: 0, Troll

    Unless he lives in China.