New Worm Installs Sniffer · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday September 13, 2004 @09:10AM from the hope-you're-using-ssl-for-everything dept.

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."

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Re:uIP already exists... by botrunner · 2004-09-13 10:41 · Score: 0, Redundant

http://www.sics.se/~adam/uip/
I know software like that. ;-) by syousef · 2004-09-13 12:45 · Score: 0, Redundant

You need Girlfriend 1.0. A word of warning though. Upgrading to Wife 1.0 is a very expensive decision.

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1. Re:I know software like that. ;-) by funkdancer · 2004-09-13 17:25 · Score: 0, Redundant
  
  I thought it was the Wife 2.0 upgrade that was the expensive one...
  
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