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Tigger.A Trojan Quietly Steals Stock Traders' Data
**$tarDu$t** recommends a Washington Post Security Fix blog post dissecting the Tigger.A trojan, which has been keeping a low profile while exploiting the MS08-66 vulnerability to steal data quietly from online stock brokerages and their customers. An estimated quarter million victims have been infected. The trojan uses a key code to extract its rootkit on host systems that is almost identical to the key used by the Srizbi botnet. The rootkit loads even in Safe Mode. "Among the unusually short list of institutions specifically targeted by Tigger are E-Trade, ING Direct ShareBuilder, Vanguard, Options XPress, TD Ameritrade, and Scottrade. ... Tigger removes a long list of other malicious software titles, including the malware most commonly associated with Antivirus 2009 and other rogue security software titles ... this is most likely done because the in-your-face 'hey, your-computer-is-infected-go-buy-our-software!' type alerts generated by such programs just might ... lead to all invaders getting booted from the host PC."
more effective that the antivirus I use today
Nullius in verba
Does it make your computer bounce up and down on its tail too?
This is my opinion. To make sure you don't steal it, it's covered by the DMCA.
I though the most wonderful thing about Tiggers was that there was only one of them
Nullius in verba
Stocks are going down. Don't buy stock.
So basically somebody needs to take out that whole "stealing your data" part from this worm and re-release it back into the wild and it would be a good thing?
Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
..does it run on Linux?
sudo mount --milk --sugar
Attacks like this, namely single vector and single target, point to a single person or small number of persons who have found some way of using the data to profit themselves. We're probably looking at someone in their late 20s, based in the United States(cursory examination -- appears the institutions are all english and based in the US), upper middle class, 5-7 years experience programming (self-explanatory), single, male, and with a history of mental health disorders along axis IV, socially under-developed, (the two are usually related, and most white-collar criminals have mental health disorders but are still highly intelligent) and likely recently became unemployed and is trying to maintain his upper-middle class income.
Forget tracing back through the network -- find out where the money is going. You have a many-to-one relationship, it's unlikely this guy is smart enough to launder money effectively -- the entire attack scenario points to someone new and inexperienced, and is acting alone hoping this will reduce his risk exposure. The differential is the profile above -- find someone who was recently in debt, and is now very much out of debt.
Have fun.
#fuckbeta #iamslashdot #dicemustdie
It is time for online financial institutions (brokerages and banks) to require real 2-factor authentication to log in to their sites. When I sign up for a bank account, I want them to mail me an ATM card with an embedded smartcard chip, along with a cheap USB smartcard reader. Alternatively, send a one-time-passphrase device like SecurID.
This may be a little expensive up front, but it would cut down on enough fraud that it might pay for itself.
A slashdotter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber.
Interestingly the Tigger trojan actually goes to the trouble of removing other more 'intrusive' malware that Anti-malware products currently detect in order to keep a low profile.
This makes me wonder just how widespread it could be.
If only there were a similar piece of malware in direct competition with this particular trojan such that both would attempt to remove the other and successfully do so.
It is interesting how malware is adapting so that not only is it able to spread more quickly to a larger number of machines, but also that it's attempting to increase its lifespan by killing off other malware so that the host may not notice that it's infected. I wonder how long it will be until a particular program updates a virus definition list or something similar to remove all other competing malware programs as they come into existence. Also, how much better will the malware be at quickly patching machines against new zero-day exploits than actual virus scanning and prevention software?
...nothing of value was lost.
**$tarDu$t* also recommends David Bowie's Station to Station for a complete botnet soundtrack.
Slartibartfast:"Is that your robot?"
Marvin:"No, I'm mine."
Usually police can track botnet owners just by following the money, but in this case there is no money to track.
Version 2.0 won't just steal data. It'll make trades. Aside from the obvious theft possibilities, the controller would have the ability to create his very own economic meltdown, in any companies he wished, limited only by the size of his botnet...
It would be nice if they had a list of Antivirus programs that were effective and/or operating systems affected, nice and prominent somewhere linked from the article.
FYI, from the security bulletin:
Affected software:
XP Service Pack 2 & 3
XP Pro x64 and x64 Service Pack 2
Server 2003 Service Packs 1 & 2
Server 2003 x64 and x64 Service Pack 2
Server 2003 with SP1 and SP2 for Itanium
Non-affected:
Win2K SP 4
Vista & Vista SP1
Vista x64&SP1
Server 2008 32
Server 2008 x64
Server 2008 Itanium
--- Thousands are enslaved every day.
you just described the entire slashdot demographic
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Forget tracing back through the network -- find out where the money is going. You have a many-to-one relationship, it's unlikely this guy is smart enough to launder money effectively
When you are talking about stocks, laundering the money is easy. Simply buy some options in a particular stock with your own money and have your botnet purchase that stock with other people's money. If your botnet makes the trades quickly enough (it probably will) the stock's price will go up and the value of the options will follow exponentially. Sell the options near the top and reap the rewards.
They will never find this person among all of the trades on Wall Street.
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
Yeah, we all miss the sound fiscal management of the Bush years ...
You mean the record-low unemployment and explosive economic growth years? The economy only turned sour when the Democrats gained control of Congress and started forcing banks to ease credit restrictions so that people who shouldn't have been able to qualify for a home loan could do so. It's called buying votes.
Did you ever stop to consider that maybe the truth about the Bush years is leaking out and the market is falling as a result of that? You know, like putting the real cost of the Iraq war in the budget and not hiding the cost?
You can blame Obama if you want but if McCain was in there the same thing would be happening. It takes longer than 30 days to fix these problems. Come back in 2 years and let's see where we are. It took nearly 2 terms for Clinton to really fix the problems of the Reagan Era. It took Bush 2 wars and 8 years to bring the country to the brink of depression.
you nailed the whole "socially under-developed" bit, since you just responded with great seriousness to a throwaway joke
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
"the one who is making all of the feverish accusations usually is the culprit"
<sunglasses/>
YEAAAAAAHHHHHHH
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
I wonder if how the virus was spread could give clues to "who knows who"? IE: Did all the machines infected at ScottTrade start from a single intrusion, or was there some type of sharing of data between ScottTrade and TD Ameritrade? Not necessarily illicit, but seeing formal and informal alliances.
-OR-
Investors, having heard that Obama has the successful in his cross hairs and intends to seize the fruits of their labor and give it to the unsuccessful in the name of fairness, are panicking.
All the focus here is on the AV finding the rootkit. Everyone forgets if they would have kept the machine updated, the rootkit or virus would not have been able to infect the machine in the first place. AV is a second layer of defense. MS Window machines should setup to update automatically. MS released the fix for the vulnerability this rootkit took advantage of a month or two before the rootkit was released.
they give you a little red dongle, and everytime you log in, you have to enter a 6 digit number you read from the dongle's screen after pushing its button
its annoying because i'm always misplacing the dongle
but every time i hear a story like this one, i begin to appreciate the extra effort
and that's really why you don't see more widespread adoption of things like this dongle: people favor convenience over security. i can see plenty of people whining about the dongle and banks worrying about losing customers
of course, one of these days we're going to have an armageddeon-level type identity theft event, and then we'll all be using 3 factor authentication. humanity is lazy and shortsighted until its too late
i don't see why they couldn't make the second factor elective rather than mandatory though, for security minded folks like yourself. it would be a customer relations boon for a small subsection of banking customers. its just a shame that you really only represent a minority interest
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
-OR-
Investors, having heard that Obama has the successful in his cross hairs and intends to seize the fruits of their labor and give it to the unsuccessful in the name of fairness, are panicking.
Don't you mean the fruits of other people's labor. Last time I checked investors don't actually produce anything.
You mean the record-low unemployment and explosive economic growth years
Rofl...are you kidding? Explosive economic growth due to unregulated markets balooning into a giant bubble? This is just like putting rocket boots on all the wolves in the forest and then acting surprised when all the deer have been eaten, and now the wolves are somehow starving to death.
I don't know where you got that bullshit about democrats forcing banks to loan to poor people. Banks did this intentionally and voluntarily, because they had bad statistical models that told them housing prices would go up forever, and they marketed bad (likely to foreclose) mortgage products, and they sold mortgages with little or no accurate risk data (ie: realtors/banks were lying about buyer salaries). Congress, let alone a democratic congress, had nothing to do with "forcing" this on banks...
Oh, I guess they don't produce anything - anything EXCEPT wealth, the ability for people to retire and sustain themselves in relative comfort, and a civilization with the highest standard of living the world has ever known. Take your Marxist crap elsewhere, you ignorant sluggard.
Because it took all of 1.5 years for the Democrats to legislate to the banks "give billions upon billions of dollars to people in ill financial health!"
You know, because we wouldn't have heard that being pushed through and soundly destroying the economy in only several months, right?
These sub-prime loans started well before the Y2K bug was due to hit, my friend.
Haha. That's amusing.
A non-idiot would be able to see that this current... dilemma is a lot longer-standing than 3 years. The problem is, banks were getting better at making bad loans and milking them as long as they could.
See the earlier story regarding the formula. It let them do the things that they had been doing, but better (and most importantly, longer).
Took a lot longer than 3 years to bring down an economy.
And, by the way, foreclosures (as a rule) are because of unexpected expenses (medical) or loss of job. Not some BS about forcing lenders' hands.
I have developed a truly marvelous proof of this comment, which this signature is too narrow to contain.
with...
VisualAnalytics, too:
http://www.visualanalytics.com/
I wouldn't be surprised if THIS is the program that the NY Times(?) reporter "outed", infuriating the Bush.
Only thing is, is I'VE been curiously and with excitment (database freaky) casually observing VisualAnalytics since, oh, about 1999 or maybe 2000. So, if this program is The One, and if the Bush had ANY thing to do with getting that NYT reporter into legal/judicial trouble, then somebody should bitch-slap him and his minions, since VA existed before the Patriot Act was published, much less drafted.
Anyway, that trader or group of tech-savvy traders better watch out, whether or not they knew/know of VA. VA purportedly has tools to do JUST the sort of forensic sniffing of some or many of the activities you posit this guy/group might have engaged in to try to cover their tracks.
Previously: "Linux... Toward the Sunrise..." Now: "Linux... Toward the-- No, now, part of Every Sunrise"
Man, that's just unethical. What's the world coming to?
But look on the bright side - even though honour among thieves is gone, at least the banking world lives on.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Yeah, they produce wealth, just like the CEO of AnyCorp. actually produces AnyWidgets. They may play a role, an important role, but Mr. CEO wouldn't have crap without a workforce. I say you're right. Let's let all the failing banks and corporations fail. No investment in the working man. But in return the working man will no longer support Mr. CEO in his endeavors. Let's see how well that works you idiot. Don't you get it? The only reason those wealthy are wealthy is because of the worker. Without the middle class Mr. CEO is S.O.L.
Its interesting to see the kind of effects as otherwise shown in the competitive worlds of microbes. Aside from host - parasite interactions, the competition between parasites is real and may create a selection force toward host integration as seen with mitochondria and chloroplasts, the precise method of symbiosis being unknown.
The limitation and illusion of security derives from the equivalence or asymmetry of roles. In one case you have parasite where the host interaction is equivalently called parasitic. In the three types of biological interactions, mutualistic, commensalistic, antagonistic; they represent ultimately modes of transition or phase. There is no difference between parasite and client, but the mirage of shared objective.
There is a seduction called the cooperative world view. It influences how parasites, virii and the concept of life itself is researched and represented. It shapes human social science, and the majority of human institutions devoted to human ideals and fiction. It categorically appears in every philosophy and religion created prior to the fossil fuel surplus of mid 20th century.
2 places where cooperative world view fails is physical reality, and games or the mechanical pursuit of simulation science.
The reason it fails is because it consistently requires more than free energy to propagate and for this, should be considered advertizing and inherently false.
Science conducted during the fossil fuel surplus is not hard, but slick. Its called Oil Science and it is possible not through the nobility of ideals, but the availability of combustion and ultimately the exploitation of a shared planetary respiratory system.
If competition between parasites creates an equilibrium, then the payoff function for the host may shift to include not only advantage, but perhaps predictability, which will bias a vaccuum. And suck them in.
When we consider how our own white blood cells, the macrophages, know how to behave as fully autonomous single celled agents in our immune system, we can ask how that intelligence came to be. Could it be evidence of a past symbiotic event? Menagerie, but where there is a market there will be specie.
The challenge faced by microbiologists to explain the period of life on earth called molecular evolution is increased by the cooperative world view. Molecular evolution was a period where cooperation could not be described in anything but chemical terms. Perhaps this is profoundly challenging for those who would make a story for text books that is not based on scientific description or evidence.
In classic irony, the metabolism of the past is used to brute force sequence genomes with computers and chemistry, in pursuit of cooperative fiction. The science of the surplus will self optimize to exploit the fuel and the agents of exploitation, in highly eusocial fashion will cooperate to consume all fuel until the surplus is exhausted. Fictions like NIH OPEC and SEC will decrease host function until a period of duress will trigger a cataclysm which is a non reproductive exchange of genetic information or change in gene frequency. If you herd sheep and cannot fend off wolves, then modify the wolf through domestication to form a wolf response. Such domestication of potential predators or parasites is a mark of success for any host.
The same consequences occur in some cold space like computers where 0 and 1 are highly deterministic and identity preserved.
Temperature is a measure of an objects internal rate of change. This applies to physical ie thermodynamic simulations and cold simulations ie digital. A simul is a shared instant. I have become 2,416 times smarter since then. Lets see how you do on the gaming grid.
Standard of living partially afforded because of social services enacted by corporates and upper class people who knew what they had to fear the most: an angry working class. I wonder whether they still remember.
Please, M$, quit the OS business...
Microsoft isn't exactly the most trustworthy when it comes to automatically installing anything they want on your computer, which is what you suggest. There doesn't seem to be a checkbox for "only fix security flaws" in Windows Update. I find I still have to sift through the options manually.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
seeing as the submitted didn't link it (or the 'editors' removed it?)
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS08-066.mspx
Just to note from that security bulletin:
Published: October 14, 2008
Updated: January 13, 2009
This has already been patched for some time. Yes, I know, some are wary of installing patches in case they bring on some other issues, so one word of warning: if you use ZoneAlarm (by jove, why? WHY WHY WHY??), be sure to read the 'list of known issues after applying this patch':
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956803
And the only reason the worker has their job and livelihood in the first place is due to Mr. Investor and Mr. CEO, etc.
If you don't like that system, feel free to start a co-op.
Attacks like this, namely single vector and single target, point to a single person or small number of persons who have found some way of using the data to profit themselves. We're probably looking at [description of nerd deleted]
ORLY?
Sounds more to me like a "Spear Phishing" operation - in this case espionage against financial institutions.
Spear-phishing has been used by detective agencies for corporate espionage before. But the tie-in to an existing piece of malware, the highly-developed stealth and anti-competition code, and the targeting of financial information, sounds to me more like the multi-billion-dollar organized crime malware operations than a single operator.
These groups also have the resources to make use of the sort of information gathered by this tool to suck billions into their own pockets by market manipulation, in addition to the outright theft you'd expect from a single, unconnected, nerd.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
So much for the ethic of graciously accepting criticism and trying to improve yourself. I guess you prefer the option that entails fostering further ignorance so that you can feel better about yourself.
So what's your excuse for failing to close your "blockquote" element? You can't spell, promote ignorance in others, *AND* you mark up for shit?
I don't buy the whole "not his last will and testament" argument either. You try to do things well even when it matters least so that when it does matter, it is easier to excel from practice.
After all, you don't always know when it'll matter. It's like always using your turn signal even when you don't see anyone else there. If you always saw them (and they, you), there wouldn't be a point to turn signals, would there? It's perhaps those times you don't realize are important that matter most.
Sadly, the answer is again no. I'm beginning to think that we will never see the year of Linux on the desktop at this rate.
I've even installed Internet Explorer 6(ies4linux), and not a single drive-by install was successful, but at least attempts were made. *sigh*
Hell, I've even tried getting some of the latest malware to run with WINE, but no such luck.(did see some fascinating garbled screen effects and some bizarre error messages though!)
Won't someone think of the penguins?
*sarcasm off*
This is one aspect of moving away from MS that I do not miss; running system hogging anti malware software, scanning my computer for infections, updating numerous app's individually, etc.
I don't know how long *nix will stay under the RADAR of malware authors, but I'm enjoying it while I can!!
This malware is getting more harmful(money-wise), sneaky, nefarious, and organized at an alarming rate. I'm afraid to imagine how nasty it will be when they do finally take aim at the Apple and *nix computers online.
That's one of the reasons that I stay current on all of the latest and greatest of this crap. If (or when?) I do have to deal with any of this stuff, I will at least have a clue.
Another reason is:(hangs head in shame)my wife refuses to be converted to *nix. She has to run MS software at work, and wants to stick with what she was trained and works in, although I frequently find her playing Monkey Bubble, and several other games on my Kubuntu Hardy PC!
But I guess only one Windows PC out of the six on my home network isn't too bad. I've only had to clean one bunch of malware off of it about two years ago when a friend of ours was visiting, and while we were visiting, her 17 year old daughter was using it online. But that has been the only problem with it.
Down With Slashdot BETA!!! I've been around the corner and seen the oliphant; you can only abuse me from your perspecti
Your sentences were so poorly constructed that I had to read them several times over just to garner what possible meaning you were trying to express. And you say a lot of things that are, well, plain stupid ('A little news for you/some FYI' says the same thing and needs no emphasis, why repeat it? Also, 'etc. et al' is just redundant at best).
I agree that perfect grammar is not important when what you write conveys the message you intend it to convey. But even by that measure you need to educate yourself on sentence construction. Until you master the basics of grammar, fighting on a grammatical front it is just fighting out of ignorance.
Let me summarise my point for your small brain. It is not the occasional annoyance of gramarians that annoy slashdotters about ACs. It is the people who speak out of ignorance - particularly the argumentative ones.
Hey, that's "good" malware! It gets rid of all those nasty popups, where can I get myself infected?
(don't laugh. It just ain't funny)
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Ya, i know, i could run linux for a lot cheaper and avoid all the windows virus business also. But for the average user who wants things to *just work* it seems pretty clear that the time saved in not having to deal with crap like this is certainly a good reason to avoid windows.
Or you could just turn on your firewall and keep your machine up to date.
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As opposed to bankers, who don't even invest in the production, but only parasite off it.
Short sighted.
Your comment infers that investors are useless. Have you ever started a business? Have you ever tried expanding a business? If not, give it a shot some time with no capital. Sure it can be done, it is possible to bootstrap, but it's far from the easiest way.
Investing has been such a successful mechanism of socio-economic development for so long that we'd go backwards pretty quickly without it.
"Girlintraining" - how's that working out for you?
I think you have a long way to go. Girls, as judgmental as they may seem, are a little more rational than you appear to be. I'm guessing: 63 years old, divorced, stay at home all day in your underwear, and spending your time posting crap on the internet. Close?
AC
Your lack of experience disturbs me.
4 years of programming? I think many of us reached 4 years before the age of 10.
"Caught 2 people on site who attempted to access information without authorization..." gee that means you firm didn't do a good job after the first person.
Classified, schmlassified. One could work with DEA or NSA, SAIC or LANL, and still be doing classified work. Let's be honest: that doesn't mean it's important. Everybody and his brother has had a TS/SI clearance, bucko. Don't embarrass the real professionals who don't go around trying to impress people on Slashdot.
AC
Well, looks like Singularity needs money again. Judging by the activity on Google, this time it's building an oceanic base.
These two AC's are owning you pretty hard dude, but I just had to point out that writing poorly is *not* a "writing style".
What indemnification do the brokerages and their customers get in cases such as this.
I agree that "investors" have allowed the companies they invested in to produce the US middle class but there are no "investors" in today's stock market, only "traders" and traders produce wealth only for themselves (maybe). All a trader does is bet he can find some sucker to buy some crap he bought for more money than he paid for it. The exact nature of the crap is irrelevant.
"We're probably looking at someone .. 5-7 years experience programming"
..
I doubt that the people who wrote the rootkit are the ones benefiting from it, more likely it was outsourced. As to how you tell all this from linked to article, maybe you should be doing psychic readings on the television
"These two AC's are owning you pretty hard dude, but I just had to point out that writing poorly is *not* a "writing style"." - by Cowmonaut (989226) on Wednesday March 04, @10:05AM (#27064491) Homepage
Oh, sure, right (do you think you are fooling anyone posting as a registered account this time to support yourself)? It happens here, quite a lot (nerdy little geeks think they're smart, until they meet someone smarter) -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1147437&cid=27066233 (I just caught "End of Days", one of your users here, yesterday, in admitting he does just what I wrote (i.e.-> Using multiple registered accounts to support himself here, lol, & even ac ones also))
I can make the assumption you are just another one of those kinds of multiple account + 'self supporting' (hilarious) users that infest this website, ruining it. Good thing morons of THAT 'calibre' are usually stupid, and easily caught (as you have been or would be if I pushed it as I did w/ he yesterday).
AND, once more - is reading comprehension an issue over there also??
Hey - Hooked on Phonics may be needed to help you out, simply because this isn't ENGLISH CLASS, it's the IT section and you are clearly unable to distinguish that much via reading the English language...
You're off topic.
APK
P.S.=> TOO easy... &, where's your PhD in English of yours which illustrates even a tiny right to critique anything about it (though you are off topic). After all, without that, you have cannot prove enough mastery of said language to be even beginning to have the right to criticize others!... that type usually is SO weak in this area (IT), that all they have is such off topic b.s., & we all know it... apk
Can't take critique, self-appointed critic, though you dish it out yourself?
"So much for the ethic of graciously accepting criticism" - by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 04, @12:57AM (#27061255)
Once more: Is reading comprehension an issue over there?
Hooked on Phonics may be needed for you, as this obviously (to anyone that can read English that is) isn't ENGLISH CLASS, it's the IT section which is clearly noted on the start page of this thread...
(As if the topic material doesn't indicate that much... and, they're critiquing anyone's English skills? LOL: These 'ac's' can't even read, thus, my init. post is correct: They're off topic... & imo, rather weak in this field of endeavor because they're undeniably off topic...
I.E.-> Can you show anyone reading here where you once contributed useful information on this malware & how to stop it? Not that I noticed... and, you certainly aren't even demonstrating you can read, because this forums section is about computing topics (not English).
I will right here -> http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=4480cdfb1e9cbe6c2729528f8c75dff7&showtopic=2662
See the "VIRUS REMOVAL SECTION" there... it gives a generic set of tools/tips/tricks/techniques in an article I authored that got me paid $100 over @ PCPitstop for winning their monthly contest, and was made an "ESSENTIAL GUIDE/sticky thread" there (as it was on 15/20 forums it is one, to the tune of 200,000++ views in 1 yr.'s time as well as often being rated "5/5 stars", & being the most viewed on forums that have been around for years to a decade++, in that short time frame also)...
The tips/tricks/techniqes there can be used on most any kind of malware to neutralize it, with tools you own already &/or completely free ones... I note that because unlike you? I am offering help via that set of techniques.
APK
P.S.=> TOO easy... &, where's your PhD in English to show you have enough mastery of said language to be even beginning to have the right to criticize others? You have no proof of mastery of writing english yourself, so all your b.s. is just mere opinion (from a wannabe English Prof., operating under his "delusions of grandeur", lol)... apk
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Don't you mean the fruits of other people's labor. Last time I checked investors don't actually produce anything.
they're not even investors - they're speculators
Antivirus 2010 has my Windows Millienium Edition PC protected from rootkits.
"It's funny how your post on why perfect grammar" - by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 04, @01:02AM (#27061299)
It's funny how you fail to provide proof of your expertise & a supposedly complete mastery of English via a PhD in it. That said: So what makes YOU an expert in English writing, or someone to listen to at all on the subject, period?
Nothing.
So much for your "self-titled" delusions of grandeur, because I'd wager you are not an English instructor at any level. Above all else though, no one asked for your blatantly off topic help!
(Thus, if you cannot determine the meaning of words and phrases in the context which they are used in, you may have a problem yourself like dyslexia - that's all I can determine thusfar & you provided the data (or rather, lol, lack the PhD in English of yours as evidence data on your part that you are some expert in English)).
English Professor wannabe #2 (really same ac as above, now playing 'smart' here, lol, trying to fool us he has multiple supporters) to the rescue:
Reading comprehension an issue over there? Hooked on Phonics may be needed, & this isn't ENGLISH CLASS, it's the IT section... ok??
(Give us a break - you're off topic & obviously too weak in this technology to contribute useful information... can you show anyone reading here where you once conributed useful information on this malware & how to stop it? Not that I noticed... thus, you truly are off topic).
I.E.-> Can you show anyone reading here where you once contributed useful information on this malware & how to stop it? Not that I noticed... and, you certainly aren't even demonstrating you can read, because this forums section is about computing topics (not English).
(No. You clearly cannot.)
I will right here -> http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=4480cdfb1e9cbe6c2729528f8c75dff7&showtopic=2662
See the "VIRUS REMOVAL SECTION" there... it gives a generic set of tools/tips/tricks/techniques in an article I authored that got me paid $100 over @ PCPitstop for winning their monthly contest, and was made an "ESSENTIAL GUIDE/sticky thread" there (as it was on 15/20 forums it is one, to the tune of 200,000++ views in 1 yr.'s time as well as often being rated "5/5 stars", & being the most viewed on forums that have been around for years to a decade++, in that short time frame also)...
The tips/tricks/techniqes there can be used on most any kind of malware to neutralize it, with tools you own already &/or completely free ones... I note that because unlike you? I am offering help via that set of techniques.
APK
P.S.=>
"Let me summarise my point for your small brain" - by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 04, @01:02AM (#27061299)
AGAIN (to sink in past your ADD &/or dyslexia, because otherwise it's evidence of skimming or outright stupidity on your part):
Is this English class? No, it's the IT section here. YOU can't even tell you are off topic, lol... "Hooked on Phonics", &/or ADD or DYSLEXIA meds may be the solution for YOU, so consider using it. "See Dick and Jane Run"... that's about your speed apparently, so give up the delusions of grandeur, because you obviously lack an accredited educational institution's training in English that establishes at least some form of professionalis &/or expertise as well as even a small right to critique the writings of others (that going to get you paid by the way for doing it? LOL, no!), and it is highly doubtful you are an English instructor at any level, much less a prof. of this language.
(So quit avoiding what was asked of you: Tell us, just where is that PhD in English that qualifies you as a critic and expert in it? Oh that's right: You have no such certification of expertise do you? Of course not!)
This might be stretching things a bit, but might we see a parallel evolutionary pattern at work here? The first malware started out in a purely parasitic mode, using host resources without regard to the health of the host. We are now seeing the emergence of less-virulent malware (at least with regard to computer resources, not necessarily less virulent with regard to impact on victims).
Might we soon discover malware that is even less virulent, and possibly even symbiotic, in terms of providing side *benefits* to those infected? Conceivable circumstances might involve a trojan that is purely for setting up a botnet, with the trojan payload aggressively cleaning the host system and entailing no more negative impact on the victim than the loss of bandwidth and CPU capacity when the botnet is being actively used...
Just curious where this might all lead.
Cheers,
"What in the name of Fats Waller is that?"
"A four-foot prune."
For people that complained about others' writing here you all seemed to have been able to understand and respond to those you criticize. What I found rather amusing is that you all talk a great deal about things that are blatantly off topic and in the typical slashdot "I will post as anonymous to make myself appear to have supporters ontop of my registered account" style tactics, and an example of it occurring here on slashdot where The End of Days who is a user here http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1147437&cid=27056793 was caught doing it and admitted it in that url. Based on your transparent gang up tactics using ac accounts you english professor types here are all no better and definitely off topic because this is not an english class and is on the subject of computers. Slashdot has a great deal of losers here who have nothing better to do than be grammar and spelling nazis. What a waste of life.
Do grammar and spelling critiques solve tech issues here and is this section of the forums about writing or irony? No on all accounts noted. You're off topic and that's the real irony here because it's clear you are most definitely off topic, not those you mod down in effete retaliation.