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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."
Being 100% Windows but with the tiniest bit of security consciousness so will we!
Contrary to popular belief, coding is not all free blow-jobs and beer. Those things cost MONEY!
Is this a VIRUS, or a WORM? They are TWO DIFFERENT THINGS.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
not only that, it took me a long time to find the key labeled "any", and when I try to fax documents by holding them up to the screen, nothing happens.
/. geeks, totally missing the marketing forest for the technical trees.
You and the other people who complain about my stupidity are typical
the point is, most people will not understand the parent post, and if he or she had wnated to be helpful, he or she would have put it in very simple plain english.
Recall Prof Feynman's demo at the Challenger hearing: really smart, knowledgable people can explain things to a milkmaid (reputedly, Einstein's wife said this was a slur on milk maids)
PS: why should i bother to spell check, if it ain't built in. spelling on your own is so 20th century
Don't us Linux lovers do just that? Hey, it's open source! That must mean no one could have done *anything* that might make this malicious so it has to be secure. Go ahead, download it, execute it, trust it.
Half the time I'm right, the other half you're wrong.
Generally I find that the Kama Sutra makes for a good Friday, although I haven't tried "The Worm" yet.
...called GNU/Linux OS :)
Windoze is no more than a game platform and should not be used as other tool if you are smart enough
sex is better than war!
"There's no patch because it's not a vulnerability, it's a virus. The only thing you can patch is the users that still won't follow directions and not open executable attachments. The OS is working as intended when it executes code you ask it to, which is how this virus gets on."
The OS is working as intended. Sure. But appliations in emails should not be able to hide the fact that they are applications. Applications should not be able to edit the registry without warning the user. Users should not need to run as Administrator to make their computers work properly. The registry is itself pretty sucktastic as far as security design goes.
The problem is that the OS is intended to be shiny and easy, and not even faintly secure.
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