Curing a Corporate Virus Infection

museumpeace writes "Over at Internet Storm Center Deb Hale's 'In search of the bot net' entry for September 25 recounts a grueling hunt for all the .exe's, reg entries and sources for a bot infection of a 60 server corporate network. What a nightmare! The story ends with an indictment of careless users and a suspicion that Ares, one of the sloppier Pirate2Pirate filesharing tools was the original souce of the extensive corruption that eventually even crippled the AV tools. How typical is this sort of grief? [More more frequent than reported, I would expect: the corporate victim demanded anonymity for the story to be told]."

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Re:Pirate to Pirate?

[Anonymous Coward]

Go and take a look at the most active p2p filesharing networks. You'll mostly see copyrighted and illegally shared material: un-free movies, un-free software, un-free music.
And now please don't point out that there actually is a free album on Kazaa as well. It still is mostly a pirate to pirate network. That's a widely-known fact which only radicals don't want to accept.

Confirms my unease with P2P

[SimianOverlord]

I used P2P for a while (eDonkey) but stopped, but I became pretty uneasy about the whole thing (ethically/ pragmatically). I feel it is only a matter of time before virus writers become more proactive in using these ready made networks for the transmission and control of their viruses. When the first P2P transmission virus blazes through the network, like HIV in a lymph node, then uses it as a reservoir for systemic (Internet) infection, it will be too late. When a virus writer releases an upgraded payload, or a modification to escape anti viral scanner via P2P to create "escape" mutants, we will be in serious trouble. We need government legislation of P2P now. Learn from biology.

Re:Pirate to Pirate?

[Master of Transhuman]

"Do you enjoy going through live being a complete and total self-centered, cheap ass bastard?"

Why not? Obviously you do, since according to your post, the whole world is about YOU.

Nothing - no intellectual concepts, no theory, no history of the human race, no effects of property and trade - nothing matters but that YOU GET PAID no matter how crappy your work, no matter how poor your marketing, no matter how limited your knowledge of anything, no matter how much of an asshole you have to be.

Read my lips.

FUCK YOU.