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Kama Sutra Worm Could Make For A Bad Friday
mikey1134 writes "CNN is running a story about the Kama Sutra worm, a virus that is coded to overwrite files of the (potentially thousands of) infected computers. They provide some background on this viral outbreak and warn users to protect themselves" From the article: "And even for home computer users who have never taken such precautions before, security experts say now would be a good time to back up your most important data, like financial information and family photographs, to CDs, DVDs, zip drives, or an external hard drive that you know is worm and virus free. Unlike a lot of malware that exploits vulnerabilities in the Windows operating system, there is no 'patch' that can be downloaded to ward off Kama Sutra."
Better back up that pr0n too! :P
... really should have more flexible security.
All my liberal friends think I'm a conservative, all my conservative friends think I'm a liberal.
Unlike a lot of malware that exploits vulnerabilities in the Windows operating system, there is no 'patch' that can be downloaded to ward off Kama Sutra.
How about a stupidty patch for opening up an attachment like the one described.
"He's lost in a 'floyd hole"
So I guess Kama Sutra could put some IT professionals in some awkward positions
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm
just turn your computer off before midnight, and leave it off until saturday.
-- lol pwned
...to CDs, DVDs, zip drives, ...
What is this, 1996?
In the old days, we etched our words into stone tablets for safe keeping..
A destructive virus was when a sick person would start coughing so hard that they'd break tablets by knocking them over.
The cost of physical media was high & the write speed was slow. Back then, we went to a lot more effort to make sure that our backups stayed safe.
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
Anyway I like how virus names are slowly getting edgier. Kama Sutra is a good one, but it'll be great fun when someone names a virus the Angry Dragon, Cleavland Steamer, or the Dirty Sanchez. I eagerly await the day when the words "Rusty Trombone hits America hard" grace CNN's frontpage :)
As bad as this day? http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0689711735.01._S CLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
//mah favorite book
I think you might be too stupid to own a computer. Please return yours for a full refund.
end up fucking yourself.
Try and get your knee to settle down and RTFA
Unlike a lot of malware that exploits vulnerabilities in the Windows operating system, there is no "patch" that can be downloaded to ward off Kama Sutra.
"This is something that is not inherent in the operating system," Sergile said.
"Unfortunately, there is no way to patch user ignorance, and the way this virus propagates is through user ignorance," he said.
I like to jump all over Microsoft for their lax security and gaping vulnerabilites as the next guy, but this time it isn't an unpatched hole in office or RPC or something causing this.
There isn't anything you can do to protect your system from this worm, aside from not being dumb enough to click on an email attachment that says "free nekkid pikturs".
>Hopefully this worm will cause a bunch of monetary damage to some corporations
Apparently not, just horny/stupid military and home users:
Furst says the worm has spread to a lot of military addresses on the Internet (.mil), but mostly to ISPs (Internet Service Providers), meaning most of those infected are probably home users.
There is much cruelty in the universe, John.
Yeah, we seem to have the tour map.
I set my computer's clock 1 day ahead!
From TFA:
"So while you might think it is coming from cousin Alice, most likely cousin Alice is not going to send you something that says 'Hey look at these pictures with naked people.' So that should be your first clue that a virus is propagating and you'd be well served to call cousin Alice to let her know that she is [unknowingly] sending out this type of e-mail," Sergile said.
Mr. Sergile, you obviously haven't met my cousin Alice.
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
"Unfortunately, there is no way to patch user ignorance, and the way this virus propagates is through user ignorance,"
:-)
Isn't the purpose of this article to patch user ignorance?
If I were more creative, and funnier, I would come up with many witty and similar analogies to the phrase "patching user ignorance."
I feel a sudden illness coming on, could be a virus.
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
And remember, kids... that's a nice computer. Would be a shame if something were to "happen" to it, you know what I mean?
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CasualSax's Rusty Trombone pounds the US in the IS.
Hmmm witty sig or funny sig? Maybe elitest techy sig!
[cut!] enumeration... [cut!] the latest anti-virus signature... [cut!] CME-24. ... [cut!] Nyxem.E, BlackWorm, Grew and Mywife.E.... [cut!] permutations ... [cut!] detailed analysis ... [cut!] advisory ... [cut!] Windows Live Safety Center Beta ... [cut!] security ... [cut!]
;)
Nah, nobody needs that voodoo stuff. The virus only overwrites files of certain types. All you need to do is to turn off "show file extensions" option in Explorer to totally confuse the virus
Sorry if I confused that option's name... I haven't touched a windows box in a while.
Here's my idea:
:D
We setup a room. The door to the room says, in every language "Danger! Do not enter". Inside they'll be a cage you need to open, again with keep out warnings. Inside the cage will be a button that says "Warning: Do not push the button, death will result!". If you push the button, you die. We come in once a week or so and clean out the body.
My guess is any person likely to push the button is also the kind that'll open random attachments despite being told not to by us, the OS, their virus scanner, etc.
Problem solved
"There is no 'patch' that can be downloaded to ward off Kama Sutra."
That's right. Once you get the Kama Sutra, you're fucked!
I remember those days. There was this guy called Moses who had received some seriously important data on top of some mountain. He goes down the mountain, and he breaks the tablets. He didn't make backups, so he had to go back to his client and ask for a new copy of the data. Very embarrasing.
That should serve as a warning to everyone; always make backups. Especially with important clients like that.
I'm using FreeBSD, am I safe? I think I am, but with all the panic swirling around over this issue, I'm not sure. Some guy just ran past my cubicle screaming, "no one is safe!"
A Government Is a Body of People, Usually Notably Ungoverned
Surely, there is a simple answer to this question:
if i scan my hardrive tonighte with avg or macafee or norton, am i protected ?
where do i download the patch ?
I just emailed it to you. Click on the attachment to open it.
May I ask what you define as a super destructive virus?
:)
If it infected my FreeBSD desktop and wiped out my text and OpenOffice files. Now THAT would be devestating!
OTOH, if it's just Windows... eh, not that big a deal. Must be a perspective thing
The line must be drawn here. This far. No further.
See. Back then we used to take all tablets and copy them onto a few clay-RWs. (Those were the days when you could backup a whole drive by dropping it in wet clay!) What the vendors didn't tell you was that by heating a clay-RW could be turned into a brick-R, thus making the data read-only (without any data loss, at least if you had the right burner). Not quite as stable as a stone tablet-R, but great for redundant backup copies.
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