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."

Comments

If only the worm installed a Swiffer

[Anonymous Coward]

Then dust free computers for all!

Is it just me....

[grolschie]

...or does the term "packet sniffer" remind anyone of someones pet dog?

Re:Is it just me....

[Oxy the moron]

I believe that would be "package sniffer" if I'm not mistaken. ;)

I don't know about you....

[soulsteal]

..but I, for one, don't care about our network-sniffing overlords.

I installed my sniffer on a computer once...

[rwven]

...Afterwards it took me over an hour to unscrew the side of my case to get my nose out...

Re:More technical details

[baadfood]

Duh! They made it themselves of course!

Need one that does some damage

[bdigit]

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

Re:A few points

[ricotest]

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.

A sniffer would still be helpful...

[raehl]

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.

Re:A sniffer would still be helpful...

[YetAnotherDave]

>> "For the love of god, please try deodorant. Any deodorant."

we could use this one at my work... :(

Re:A few points

[randomiam]

"inusable"?

That's unpossible, isn't it?

Re:A few points

[EngMedic]

I still think the best (worst?) virus would delete one card at random from solitare....