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Windows Vista Tool Targeted By Virus Writers

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the infectious-diseases dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Five proof-of-concept viruses that target Monad, the next version of Vista's command prompt, have been published on the web. Monad is a command line interface and scripting language that is similar to Unix shells such as bash, but is based on object-oriented programming and the .Net framework. The viruses' only action is to infect other shell scripts on the host's operating system. They would cause little harm in the wild, but would be relatively easy to modify using the information from the article, said Mikko Hyppönen, the director of antivirus research at F-Secure."

16 of 293 comments (clear)

  1. What? Say it isn't so! by CypherXero · · Score: 3, Funny

    Microsoft Windows is insecure! More details later, movie at 10.

  2. Re:What's the motivation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    So l337 h4x0rz c4n pwn j00!!!!

  3. Re:Comments from a Monad developer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    that's five solid kicks in the monads of vista

  4. Re:Comments from a Monad developer by jest3r · · Score: 4, Funny

    Believe it or not but "Monad" wasn't their first choice. Other names which were seriously considered include: Mesticle, Menis, Magina and Mitoris ...

  5. NO WAY! by stiefvater · · Score: 2, Funny

    never mind the virus-

    windows now has a decent shell?!

    will wonders never cease?

    K.

  6. It still is a beta after all. by zwilliams07 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Give M$ some time to work its magic, then there will be plenty of holes and viruses for all!

  7. full circle wtf ? by bxbaser · · Score: 3, Funny

    I must be getting old when i see the full circles everywhere.

    when windows 95 came out the windows zealots where so quick to point out "no more haveing to type in dos windows is better than everything" now they will say "we have a shell windows is better than everything"

  8. Re:Comments from a Monad developer by starling · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yabbut if they'd chosen one of those other names the GNU version wouldn't end up being called Gonad.

    Sneaky, huh?

  9. Re:Comments from a Monad developer by dedazo · · Score: 2, Funny
    The real question is why the heck they decided to call it "Monad"?!

    Would you have preferred "Warthy Warthog" or "Sweaty Weasel"?

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  10. More Windows viruses? by Lisandro · · Score: 4, Funny

    Awwww, crap guys. Let it go already. It's a bit like kicking a crippled at this point.

  11. Re:Comments from a Monad developer by kfg · · Score: 3, Funny

    Missing option:

    Moobs.

    KFG

  12. Re:How is this different from *NIX shell scripts? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    You obviously haven't seen the calls in module os.system:
    • os.system.bsod()
    • os.system.crash(program)
    • os.restart()
    • os.add_clippy(program)


  13. The Monad by payndz · · Score: 3, Funny
    In the comic series The ABC Warriors (specifically the story 'Black Hole'), the Monad was a bloated, ruthless manifestation of all human evil that attempted to destroy the Earth by corrupting and overloading the incredible technological achievement that linked humanity together.

    But I'm sure that's just a coincidence.

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  14. Re:Comments from a Monad developer by Hadlock · · Score: 2, Funny

    They'll end up naming the GNU port "mash"

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  15. Re:Comments from a Monad developer by NickFortune · · Score: 4, Funny
    Yabbut if they'd chosen one of those other names the GNU version wouldn't end up being called Gonad.

    Looking at the syntax, I think the GPL version is called Perl 6

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  16. Re:Comments from a Monad developer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    becuase people are retards and would click "no don't allow access" then proceed to whinge to tech support that their internet is broken, nothing works, blah blah...

    OTOH, people are retards and would click "yes do allow access" then proceed to whinge to tech support that their computer is broken, nothing works, blah blah