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Botnet Herders Attack MS06-040 Worm Hole
Laljeetji writes "eweek reports that the first wave of malicious attacks against the MS06-040 vulnerability is underway, using malware that hijacks unpatched Windows machines for use in IRC-controlled botnets. The attacks, which started late Aug. 12, use a variant of a backdoor Trojan that installs itself on a system, modifies security settings, connects to a remote IRC (Internet Relay Chat) server and starts listening for commands from a remote hacker. On the MSRC blog, Microsoft is calling it a very small, targeted attack that does not (yet?) have an auto-spreading mechanism. LURHQ has a detailed analysis of the backdoor."
if he gets his ass sued into oblivion, that will teach him to not touch that crap even with an 20-inch stick.
'supporting' windoze, besides making your work life a living hell, does not do anyone any good. Let them windows lusers get screwed to the point they will get sufficiently pissed of at microsoft to do something to rid themselves of that misery.
as long as there is a nerd-bitch to 'fix your windows box for some bucks', this crap will go on endlessly. I, for one, plainly refuse to do anything on any family member's computers that run windows. They have to pay some tool to clean their crap. I simply say 'i do not know windows, i don't use it, it stinks', and go back to my beer.
"Contrary to popular belief, UNIX is user friendly. It just happens to be selective on who it makes friendship with"