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New Worm Installs Sniffer
fmorgan writes "Netcraft just posted a note saying that a new worm installs a network sniffer in the infected computers." When I read these things it kind of makes me wonder why it took this long. Update: 09/13 22:47 GMT by T :
More innovation: Ant writes "The Register has a story about a piece of malware that 'talks' to victims. The Amus email worm uses Windows Speech Engine (which is built-in to Windows XP) to deliver a curious message to infected users.
The message reads: "How are you. I am back. My name is mister hamsi. I am seeing you. Haaaaaaaa. You must come to turkiye. I am cleaning your computer. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. 0. Gule. Gule." ("Gule. Gule" is Turkish for "Bye. Bye". "Hamsi" is a small fish, like an anchovy, found in the Black Sea).
F-Secure has a copy of the sound file generated by the message."
Then dust free computers for all!
my password to asianthumbs.org may have been jepeordized!
Oh no, I have said too much!
Damn you autopr0n, why, why did you have to die!!!
Monstar L
.. if your network smells bad.
...or does the term "packet sniffer" remind anyone of someones pet dog?
We need someone to go after these people with the intensity that the RIAA goes after 13 year old girls who don't want to pay for Hoobastank songs. If only the hackers would start going after people like the RIAA instead of trying to screw the everyday person out of their information so they can buy more mods for their Xbox. Then we could air it on MTV as Celebrity Geek Match!
..but I, for one, don't care about our network-sniffing overlords.
...Afterwards it took me over an hour to unscrew the side of my case to get my nose out...
Duh! They made it themselves of course!
We could all be doooooooomed!
Dear Worm Writers,
Please create a worm that will actually destroy the users harddrive that way at work when they call up I can tell them its a hardware problem and we do not support that. Also it will teach everyone a valuable lesson in running windows update and enabling their firewalls.
Thank you
Student worker @ University Helpdesk
As soon as your comment was posted, a dozen hackers got to work on a virus that does exactly what you describe. Thanks for helping fuck up my reports, asshole.
Especially if it gives warning messages, like:
"It is time to empty the litter box."
or
"Please do your laundry."
or
"Are you really sure you want to eat that leftover pizza?"
or
"For the love of god, please try deodorant. Any deodorant."
Of course, there are also downsides, like your stash of coke always vanishing.
paintball
That's unpossible, isn't it?
So all I have to do is wait a couple more years! Then I will buy a naked machine, connect it to the internet, and in minutes a full OS will be installed by a worm! The best part is that it will probably be more up to date than the Windows machines spreading this garbage.
Maybe I should patch emacs to propagate itself and get the jump on the script kiddies ;)
I still think the best (worst?) virus would delete one card at random from solitare....
filter: +3. Hey, look! all the trolls went away!
I think I must have got hit by an early-adopter version.
:)
*envy*
You got selected to be a beta tester of a virus! That is so 1337 man
Carbon based humanoid in training.
"How are you. I am back. My name is mister hamsi. I am seeing you. Haaaaaaaa. You must come to turkiye. I am cleaning your computer. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. 0. Gule. Gule." ("Gule. Gule" is Turkish for "Bye. Bye"
AMAZING. The first virus that has the capacity to destroy not only the victim's computer, but his BRAIN as well. I swear, these guys need to start hiring professional comedians to do their dirty work, or we're all screwed.
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