Conficker Downloads Payload

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday April 9, 2009 @12:41AM from the still-the-best-name-ever dept.

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."

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Eye chart by Drakin020 · 2009-04-09 01:07 · Score: 5, Funny

On a side note, that eye chart the Conflicker Group had up no longer works.
http://www.confickerworkinggroup.org/infection_test/cfeyechart.html

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Ahhhhhh... by buttfscking · 2009-04-09 01:23 · Score: 5, Funny

This sure is entertaining from over here on Linux Island! *sips drink*
1. Re:Ahhhhhh... by tb3 · 2009-04-09 01:47 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  The Mac Archipelago finds it amusing, too. *Cheers!*
  
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2. Re:Ahhhhhh... by Shrike82 · 2009-04-09 02:13 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  It's good that this provides you with entertainment, it must get very boring over there when you can't play any games ;)
  
  Even though I'm joking, let the "Troll" modding begin.
  
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3. Re:Ahhhhhh... by jimbolauski · 2009-04-09 02:48 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Macs have games, Breakout, Super Breakout, ... Photoshop?
  
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4. Re:Ahhhhhh... by Myrimos · 2009-04-09 03:54 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Don't forget the Linux games!
  - Why Isn't My Wireless Working? (Fun for the whole family!)
  - Write Your Own Driver
  - rm -rf ~/* roulette
  - The Uptime Game (See how long your server's up! Prizes for +100 day or 6 sigma uptimes!)
  - Condescension (Make Windows users feel so bad about their OS they switch to *nix. Bonus points for Gentoo.)
  Anyway, Linux has tons of games for the creative and inquiring mind.
  
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Re:april fools by Lumpy · 2009-04-09 01:26 · Score: 5, Funny

That honestly would have rocked...
April 1 - 2009 Conflicker downloads and activates it evil payload. Computer screens all over the world go black with large red numbers counting down to....... something......
Do it like the many really bad computer hacker movies. That would simply be funny as hell. The raging panic from the easily panicked sheep, Fox news will report that Conflicker turns your computer into a bomb, etc....
THAT would be the coolest April fools joke ever.

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Re:Holidy Weekend. by thedonger · 2009-04-09 02:10 · Score: 5, Funny

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.

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Re:april fools by sskagent · 2009-04-09 02:49 · Score: 5, Funny

Your computer would have to beep. All movie computers make excessive, unneeded noise.
Re:Holidy Weekend. by Oxygen99 · 2009-04-09 02:57 · Score: 5, Funny

It's like rai--ai--ain, on your wedding day...

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