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New Massive Botnet Building On Windows Hole
CWmike writes "The worm exploiting a critical Windows bug that Microsoft patched with an emergency fix in late October is now being used to build a fast-growing botnet, said Ivan Macalintal, a senior research engineer with Trend Micro. Dubbed 'Downad.a' by Trend (and 'Conficker.a' by Microsoft and 'Downadup' by Symantec), the worm is a key component in a massive new botnet that a new criminal element, not associated with McColo, is creating. 'We think 500,000 is a ballpark figure,' said Macalintal when asked the size of the new botnet. 'That's not as large as some, such as [the] Kraken [botnet], or Storm earlier, but it's... starting to grow.'"
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They need to do way kdawson > who publish this FUD. becuse these Slashdotter cant frigth back?
it was on the Slashdot this mroing an editor in ar who had released three dupes. they are ignoring the three story tags and comments too lady dupes to rest my pary are with CmdrTaco who lost his cerdibility ; i am truley sorry for your lots
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because I have a dedicated help desk for my home PC.. idiot.
No, and that's obviously Microsoft's fault.
Remember Blaster, which had a full 40 days or something like that before the exploit was seen in the wild. 10 days is obviously not enough lead time. I personally think we should all be given at least 6 months warning for each vulnerability. Then the attack success rate would plummet to 20% from the 70% it seems to be at these days.
One year would be even better. 365 glorious days to decide whether or not to patch! That would be great.
Enabling auto-update implies the user trusts Microsoft to (a) update Windows properly and (b) not steal their bank account and credit card information with each update.
I would say most Windows users do not believe in (a). Some think they know better what updates to install than Microsoft suggests.
A significant number of users do not believe in (b). They have heard so much trash talk about Microsoft that they believe it is a criminal enterprise being operated by the Mafia.
I would say there is no hope for anything good coming from this set of beliefs.
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I disable Windows when I do an install of Linux.
I dont get viruses because I'm not a wintard who opens any FREEREGISTRYSCANNER add they see.
I've been running windows xp without firewalls/AV for like four years now. Every 6 months or so I scan for viruses, rootkits, trojans, and adware, and i've yet to come up with anything.
Auto-update is really annoying, especially if you don't have a very good connection. Its one of the first things I disable when I do a fresh install of XP.
Not sure why this was modded funny, as this seems to be far and away the predominant mentality of windows users...
If only there was a way to get the service packs without having to manually check it every day. Microsoft needs to make something automatic, like Apple's Software Update to download that stuff for you.
Man, Macs rule.
Has anyone tried to run it on WINE? Just saying...
Does that mean Macs have 10% of the market share of annoying ass spam networks? Cause they've already got 100% of the annoying and misleading commercials...
Or Just move to Linux, BSD, OSX...
silarulz!
revolves around unscrupulous business tactics and emergency fixes to a dated and uncompetitive product turned fixture by lock-in, an enormous spinning vortex of shit known as a botnet is only natural.
Windows vista and its DRM in and of themselves are a botnet that offer you plugins and upgrades at the expense of your CPU time and sanity much the same way a botnet effectively doles out dickpill adds.
you can hurl your best in-house antivirus at it, but since that was composed by coders flogged to the finish line by marketing, i dont see how thats destined to placate the issue.
Good people go to bed earlier.