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Conficker Downloads Payload
nk497 writes "Conficker seems to finally be doing something, a week after hype around the worm peaked on April Fool's Day. It has now downloaded components from the Waledac botnet, which could contain rootkit capabilities. Trend Micro security expert Rik Ferguson said: 'These components have so far been missing, but could this finally be the "other boot dropping" that we have all been been waiting for?' Ferguson also suggested that people behind Conficker could be the very same who are running Waledac and created the Storm botnet. 'It tallies with some of the assumptions people have made about Conficker — that the first variant was actively trying to avoid the Ukraine because Waledac was Eastern European,' Ferguson added."
Downloading its payload and going live a week after April 1? Now that's the way to do an April Fools joke.
This guy's the limit!
On a side note, that eye chart the Conflicker Group had up no longer works.
http://www.confickerworkinggroup.org/infection_test/cfeyechart.html
The greatest revenge in life is massive success.
Holy shit, I'm going to hide under my desk now. Call me when it's all over.
See, if you're going to go all political and off-topic, you should at least try and make some sort of attempt to link it to the story at hand...
for example...
If you look at the facts the conficker virus and waladac botnet are CLEARLY parts of a vast left wing conspiracy which is obviously fronted by obama because the democrats want to take as much of your processing power as they do your income
PLEASE, PLEASE mod parent funny
Laughter is the best medicine, except if you have a broken rib.
also it looks like http://www.confickerworkinggroup.org/ [confickerw...ggroup.org] is down
I can still get to it... you must be infected!
(Ok, ok, i'm just joking, it doesn't load for me either. It seemed a lot funnier when i first started typing it :P )
This sure is entertaining from over here on Linux Island! *sips drink*
Isn't anyone else curious to see what happens next?! I can just imagine millions of computer users starting their computers Monday morning and seeing their new goatse-themed desktop. Oh the lols...
mmmm...forbidden donut
So I understand you to mean I should stop using my potatoe to surf the web?
What is this sex of which you speak?
His name is Robert Paulson
Orwell was an optimist.
Holy shit, I'm going to hide under my desk now. Call me when it's all over.
No Problem,
I'll email you an attachment that will explain what happened and why everything is ok.
Be sure to read it.
If you get modded down for a first post... What do you get for a last post?
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1478#comic
like playing your starters against their backups.
Could you change that into a car analogy? Thanks!
Go cry.
It's like showing up to a street race in a rickety-looking Ford Escort which secretly houses a small block V8 with nitrous.
It's like a porn star showing up to a naked pool party for men with erectile dysfunction.
It's like bringing a gun to a knife fight.
Help fight poverty: Punch a poor person.
Overworked Atheist Security Experts to the rescue?
The lack of religious holidays would likely foil most attempts to catch them with their pants down...
America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, badass speed. -Eleanor Roosevelt, 1936
like playing your starters against their backups.
Could you change that into a car analogy? Thanks!
It's like playing your things that you turn the key in that makes your engine go vroom!vroom! against their things that go Beeeeep Beeeeeep Beeeeep.
It's like rai--ai--ain, on your wedding day...
I had a dream, bright and carefree, but now there's doubt and gravity
Yes Senator Quayle, immediately disconnect your potatoe from the intertubes.
"But this one goes to 11!"
Because, it'll hurt more?
At my old apartment we had someone stealing gas on the peak of the market.
Since my truck is crap it was an easy target. They stole almost an entire 30 gallon tank full.
I found out who it was by disconnecting my fill spout from the tank (and piping a new fill spout from the tool box in the bed), and putting in a mini tank on the OEM filler. Filled it with about 3 gallons of nitromethane and 2 gallons of diesel. All of a sudden one day this (asshat) ricer had his engine almost explode. It was quite funny.
-nB
whois gawk date unzip strip find touch finger mount join nice man top fsck grep eject more yes exit umount sleep dump
...and using 4096-bit signing to authenticate anything tossed in the windows.
That's actually one of the saddest thing I've read for a long time. I hope she never elopes with a Windows 7 install.