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Kama Sutra Worm Hits Softly
An anonymous reader writes "Despite warnings of the danger posed by the Kama Sutra worm, ZDNet is reporting that things haven't been nearly as bad as expected." From the article: "There have been 'no reports of any (Kama Sutra) detonations so far. Also, the virus seems to be dropping in e-mail prevalence. It was down to second place yesterday, according to our monitoring stations, and slid again into third place today,' Paul Ducklin, head of technology at Sophos Asia-Pacific, told ZDNet Australia. The worm's ranking was overtaken by MyDoom and Netsky variants, which have been around for a number of years. "
It sounds like the news over hyped a story for no reason. Say it ain't so!
I got:
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
the first few times I tried to view this article. Are we sure Slashdot isn't infected?
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I, for one, would favor a slightly smarter Internet that simply filtered out known threats, stopping any further spread once they're identified. The fact that attacks continue to run years after they're first known is just plain stupid!
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
that might just be the raciest title on a /. article ever. W0W
Sorry, it IS so. The media uses end-of-the-world headlines because it gets people riled up and excited, and this news about the Kama Sutra worm falls into that category...
My sig is permanently on strike.
Does this mean A) we've done a good job training our users or B) no one infected with this worm is willing to admit it?
Most of the users I support would rather reconstruct their documents than admit they clicked on a "free pr0n" e-mail. Wonder how accurate this news really is.
There is no reasonable defense against an idiot with an agenda
:wq
I felt all flushed with fever, embarrassed by the crowd, ...
I felt he found my letters and read each one out loud.
I prayed that he would finish but he just kept right on
Strumming my pain with his fingers,
Singing my life with his words,
Killing me softly with his song,
Killing me softly with his song,
Telling my whole life with his words,
Killing me softly with his song...
That's what came to mind when i read the title "Kama Sutra Worm Hits Softly." It's not my fault though, my mother subjected me to years of 'light' music on my way to school.
Anyways, I'm not surprised the media took this one and ran with it. When was the last time they had a 'major' malicious virus to talk about?
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
Of course it's soft at first. But wait until it changes positions a few times! It will be surprisingly intense before long.
/syle
Possibly, the reason it didn't hit so hard was the fact that it was so hyped.
If someone warns me that I'm about to get hit by a car, and I move and avoid being hit, I wouldn't say that there was nothing to be worried about.
It's a virus.
Surely Slashdot knows the difference? A virus/trojan relies on user stupidity. A worm relies on software insecurity.
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
And think how many more people, having done that, are at least in some way a little more protected from becoming a spam zombie.
500GB of disk, 5TB of transfer, $5.95/mo
The worm's ranking was overtaken by MyDoom and Netsky variants, which have been around for a number of years.
This information distorts the issue. Kama Sutra carries an extremely destructive payload, deleting a user's local data and data on attached network drives (and, worse, the antivirus software on the networked computers can't prevent these deletions). This cannot be directly compared to MyDoom or NetSky, which merely clog networks, install backdoors (that are not usually used for anything nearly as destructive), and turn computers into spam and DoS zombies.
The above statement is like saying that rainstorms have overtaken tornados in prevalence. That doesn't matter, because tornados do much, much more damage than rainstorms do.
In all fairness though, you may not notice a critical document has been lost until a few days down the line...
I really think that people are becoming more and more prepared for viruses, I would also venture to say that more and more people are running virus scanners and more and more isps are filtering the content of the emails and other methods of transmissions.
Overreaction? Maybe, but definitly better than underreaction.
Do I ever... My father insisted on turning off the answering machine, because it was digital one that did voice stamps and other complex features, and the "virus could spread through the phone lines".
+1 to my dad for knowing that the answering machine did have a computer as a component
-100 for thinking that it was susceptible to a virus dialing it up and infecting it
I'm out of my mind right now, but feel free to leave a message.....
Instead of it saying "Schoolgirl fantasies gone wrong" it said "Schoolgirl does math homework and studies history".
Yeah but just wait til the Tantra worm hits... wait for it... wait for it....
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Now what am I going to do with 500,000 T-shirts, stickers, coffee mugs, mouse pads, and other miscellaneous paraphernalia printed with the slogan "I got pwned by Kama Sutra!"
Prove it.
And think how many of those people now believe the little more protection they just purchased is absolute protection and that they're free to open any and all attachments they get from now on.
Ok, I screwed up (no pun intended)
;-)
The great states of Iowa an Misouri also have 14, and where there are two different numbers for the same state it means
the law within that country or state varies according to region or circumstances.
So, I'm guessing 14 is legal if you are married (preferrably to a close relative),
There is much cruelty in the universe, John.
Yeah, we seem to have the tour map.