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.CA Registrar Trying To Preempt Conficker

Posted by timothy on from the circling-the-wagons dept.

clover kicker writes "The CBC reports that the group managing Canada's .ca internet domain is working to foil an internet worm set to attack starting April Fool's Day. 'This is the first virus that's really focused on domain names as part of propagating the virus itself,' said Byron Holland, CEO of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, a non-profit organization that represents those who hold a .ca domain. CIRA's strategy includes pre-emptively registering and isolating previously unregistered .ca domain names that Conficker C is expected to try and generate, said a news release issued by the group. That would make those names unavailable for anyone to register in order to set up a website to host the worm's 'command and control' file. A list of the names has been predicted by security experts based on the worm's code. In addition, CIRA is investigating and monitoring activity at names on the list that have already been registered and will 'take appropriate action if suspicious activity is detected.'"

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  1. I feel left out... by erroneus · · Score: 5, Funny

    My wife runs MacOS and I have my Linux... I really wish I could get involved in the party. Will Cornfucker run under Wine?

    1. Re:I feel left out... by erroneus · · Score: 4, Funny

      Oh your elitist, mob-rule attitude is not helpful. Some of us aren't fortunate enough to be able to afford Microsoft software. The wife's Mac OS X came with her machine and my computer did come with Windows installed on it but I didn't create the restore media before my machine was trashed with malware. So instead of buying software, I got free software. It works just fine though. Well enough to post here, view all sorts of porn that would have trashed my computers again if I were running Windows, and aside from playing games and DRM media, I can do anything I ever wanted to do.

      It is only during events like those created by cornfucker that I really begin to feel left out of the party.

    2. Re:I feel left out... by roaddemon · · Score: 4, Funny

      Oh the irony: "Some of us aren't fortunate enough to be able to afford Microsoft software. The wife's Mac OS X..."

  2. April Fools!!! by gsgriffin · · Score: 5, Funny

    is all the worm pops on the screen and does. Now how much money did you spend trying to ward off this script? That will be the real joke.

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  3. Re:Helps, but not much ... by Dr.+Cody · · Score: 5, Funny

    I saw the article today on CBC (Canada's equivalent of the BBC).

    Well, that would certainly explain the "C," wouldn't it?