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Sober.P Worm Accounts for 5% of all Email Traffic
destuxor writes "The grave insecurity of the day is the Sober.P worm which is currently pushing nearly 5% of all email traffic at the moment. Unlike previous worms, Sober can disable the Windows Firewall and Symantec Antivirus. Interestingly, patched machines are not vulnerable to the exploits used by this worm. What are we going to have to do to convince "ordinary users" to visit WindowsUpdate once in a while?" update percentage corrected.
is that like the anti-tequila worm?
Oh better hurry and update iptables and patch my kernel and emerge sync;emerge -uv world... oh windows, they get all the fun!
Whenever your PC gets infected with a virus or 10 bits of spyware a large foot swings out from under the desk and hits you in the groin. It'd even work on them guys pretending to be women!
I like muppets.
What are we going to have to do to convince "ordinary users" to visit WindowsUpdate once in a while?
Easy. Make it an invite-based system. People take for granted what they can get effortlessly.
Add a cost to it, and people will appreciate and use it more.
Funny how something called sober is free as in beer.
Looks like someone needs to get Sober:P
because here on slashdot, anything stastically alarming is squared to make it even more alarming. its in the end user agreement :)
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But if you slashdot the Sober.P worm, who wins?
I officially retract that last comment. The grammatical mistake was more retarded than the quote it was making fun of.
*blinking cursor*
They read the article, and accidently mentally multiplied the actual figure by 5.3763440860215053763440860215054. It could happen to anyone!
I read that the article references...
Ah, see, that was your first mistake.
"Quoting famous computer scientists out of context is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming." - K
If it ain't broke don't fix it. Great motto, I assume that means you're running unpatched Linux machines too right? Afterall if it's running fine it doesn't need any security patchs.
"I work at a University IT helpdesk, and after far too many malware problems from far too many dumb lusers (and many of them repeat visits), I've adopted a new policy. If a student or member of faculty comes in with malware problems for the first time, I fix it for them and I give them a Gentoo Linux install CD to go away with. If they come back with viruses/spyware a second time, I tell the luser to stop bothering me, and that I gave them the solution to install last time."
Let me guess - all those stereotypes about antisocial computer geeks seem to have originated in your general vicinity, am I right?
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