Supposedly it did nothing, huh.
April fools joke eh?
Quote from: cheesepuffly on March 31, 2009, 09:31:28 PM
Do not know how or why (i mean i know how but yeah) some worm is gonna infect all you windows users.
http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Canada/2009/03/31/8953706.html
So patch your windows and anti viruses and hope for the best.
Correction, this worm is only going to infect morons like my brother who do so many stupid things on their PCs its already crawling with 100s of viruses.
Yeah, I know what you mean. I spent hours last week trying to disinfect a pc then ended up having to reinstall the OS. For reasons like this, I wish owning and operating a pc required a license.
I dunno... sounds like an April fools joke to me.
Quote from: CivBase on March 31, 2009, 11:31:48 PM
I dunno... sounds like an April fools joke to me.
It is not.
It has been analyzed.
Has it? Well, either way, I already decided to run an MSRT scan.
Mines ok, just wanted to make sure everyone else knew.
Linux FTW.
Quote from: Nielk1 on March 31, 2009, 10:36:40 PM
Correction, this worm is only going to infect morons like my brother who do so many stupid things on their PCs its already crawling with 100s of viruses.
What? 100 infection virues.
Quote from: hybirdisdf on April 01, 2009, 12:44:52 AM
Quote from: Nielk1 on March 31, 2009, 10:36:40 PM
Correction, this worm is only going to infect morons like my brother who do so many stupid things on their PCs its already crawling with 100s of viruses.
What? 100 infection virues.
Hahahaha thats nothing, people have TONS literally on their computers. Were talking 5 digits.
I have 0. You know why? Because I have linux. And it's free. And windows stuff works on it. (Well, mostly.) And because I have to reinstall every couple months cause sound stops working :p
I have 0. You know why? Cause i have AVG.
I have 0. you know why? I don't download pirated software or music, or look at adult sites. I don't have a virus scanner or spyware scanner installed on my OS at all. I have not gotten a virus on my computer in over 2 1/2 - 3 years. every month or so I will install AVG to see how good I'm doing. Again, it has nothing.
I work at a computer repair shop and we deal with viruses ALL the time... Conficker is going to be intresting.. I have not actually tested conficker my self.. I guess it depends on the system date?
Quote from: .:.FTD.:.squirrel-Cmd on April 01, 2009, 01:29:12 AM
I have 0. you know why? I don't download pirated software or music, or look at adult sites. I don't have a virus scanner or spyware scanner installed on my OS at all. I have not gotten a virus on my computer in over 2 1/2 - 3 years. every month or so I will install AVG to see how good I'm doing. Again, it has nothing.
I work at a computer repair shop and we deal with viruses ALL the time... Conficker is going to be intresting.. I have not actually tested conficker my self.. I guess it depends on the system date?
Good that you use AVG.
I have methods for getting music (wont explain them, not bittorent though) plus should i ever use bittorent, i usually see what other people say anyway.
It may look at the system date, but if I was the programmer I'd make it look at the date on a dedicated server somewhere else. So that even if someone changed their system date to Jan 1, it would still trigger.
But that's just me.
VSMIT.
Cheezypuff, I've been using AVG for years.
it didnt make my computer immune to all viruses.
Quote from: VSMIT on April 01, 2009, 01:31:27 AM
It may look at the system date, but if I was the programmer I'd make it look at the date on a dedicated server somewhere else. So that even if someone changed their system date to Jan 1, it would still trigger.
But that's just me.
VSMIT.
It would flood the heck out of the server, lol and i could just unplug the internet
Quote from: General BlackDragon on April 01, 2009, 01:32:28 AM
Cheezypuff, I've been using AVG for years.
it didnt make my computer immune to all viruses.
Well lets put it this way, i have not run into any viruses AVG cannot handle.
I may get one once every few months. Usually AVG can handle it.
Well, I'm running three scans:
Symantec W32.Downadup Removal Tool 1.0.7
Microsoft Windows MSRT
f-downadup
I'm going to have to sleep before they are done, so does anyone know if there is anything I have to manually do after these are finished, or should they automatically do it for me?
I dont use them so i could not say
Lets just put it this way, the most easy way to combat this is to just not turn your computer on tommorow
But tomorrow's an early out at my school, and I have an English report I have to type up...
Two of the scans finished with no problems... so I may be clean...
You probably are, do not worry.
Last week, I ran into something neither AVG, Norton Systematic, Spybot Search and Destroy, nor Adaware SE could detect. The malware slowed the pc to a crawl and spammed the user with IE popups. I literally just said F**k it then reinstalled the OS. There are things that AVG won't detect. Heck, AVG was installed before the time of infection so not only did AVG fail to prevent it, it failed to catch it too.
...
All im saying is, what i run into, AVG can handle ok?
Gah what do you have against it?
You realise that youre all boasting about having no viruses on youre system, However the truth of the matter is, there are no viruses on youre system THAT YOU ARE AWARE OF, or youre antivirus program is aware of.
Ive got Kaspersky, so i should be a'ok.
OT: Anybody been hit by the MSN hi-5 virus yet? I got it thanks to my brother :lol:
Whats it do?
I managed to stop a virus i caught of MSN by going into taskmanager and finding the process using up all my CPU time. that was the only way to delete the damn .dll as well.
I don't know what it does, I got rid of it, but I know how you get it.
Once a computer becomes infected, MSN sends out messages to everybody who is listed on that PC saying
Quotelol, is this picture you? http://www.hi-5.com/*********************
The link leads to a download page which saves a file called
Quotepicture.jpg.exe
to your hard drive. When a user double-clicks on it, a message box opens saying 'Loading images...' whilst it installs the virus. It finishes, the message says 'Load failed', and the program closes itself. The computer is infected and the process begins over again.
I'm amazed people fall for it, it's so obvious, but it's spreading around the internet like wildfire.
The tough part is that you didn't actually see if it was a picture of you.
When I am bored, I manually audit my registry.
I KNOW I have no viruses I do not know about.
I have some tracking cookies.
I have some false positives in a Ducati game.
I have a Virus in a file I need the file for and I can bypass the virus.
And I have tracking cookies (who doesn't).
I don't scan my PC often because I use common sense and have not needed to.
The only viruses I get are ones that sneak in from my brother's viral jungle PC and I watch that well.
I check things in a VM if I am suspicious, where I can monitor every little change that occurs.
Quote from: Nielk1 on April 01, 2009, 09:44:35 PM
I KNOW I have no viruses I do not know about.
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
You may have NO idea how funny that statement is... I'm envious, and wish I'd said it... :)
First of all, NO Antivirus program gets ALL virii. They do tests on these things, and none of them are 100%.
Second of all, Conficker is a
worm. This means an unprotected system will become infected simply by being on the network if there's another reachable infected system.
The vulnerability it takes advantage of has been patched for years, it's only unprotected systems that haven't kept up with their MS Security patches. Unfortunately those number in the millions.
Conficker and it's variants are very good at stealthing themselves. They've slipped by a lot of AV programs and infected a LOT of systems. That potential base is scary when you realize that conficker will, at some point(s), contact an IRC channel or website and ask for instructions. These instructions can do anything from telling it to modify itself again to become even harder to detect/clean, to mounting a Denial of Service attack on a major site.
It's not knowing what it might do that made everyone nervous. Luckily the creators of it have decided to sit quietly and wait things out, which is only lucky for today... who knows what it'll do tomorrow.
In the meantime if you're patched and up to date you're fine. Doesn't mean you shouldn't use a good AV program, and AVG is one of the best, or that you shouldn't also practice safe computing and stay away from those bad pirate and pr0n sites...
:)
-Av-
The one time im glad (?) Vista bugs me to wits end to update the security. :P
FYI: worms and trojans are different beasts all together. A worm will use an infected computer to scan the internet for vulnerable computers and infect them. Simply being smart about your computing habits will not protect you from a worm.
In fact, I remember once installing Windows XP on a computer which used dialup to access the internet. Within 2 hours of installation the computer was infected with a nasty worm. Keep in mind this was an unpatched pre-SP1 copy of windows XP. And those things ate worms for breakfast, lunch, dinner AND brunch.
I doubt even a zero day threat (a threat which is exploited before patches are issued) like conficker will make it far, because a lot of people have automatic updates, AV, and firewalls these days.
So....if my computer is infected, I should not worry about it, since it will just go infect vulnerable computers?
Im gonna get my vaccum (sluuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrppppp) it is clean now.No more worms.The worms is in the dust bag.
Install Linux. Use it for everything that Windows isn't critical for.
I have a linux install here... somewhere. (it has to be here because it was at the top of my to-do list) :roll:
How do you lose an OS?
VSMIT.
Quote from: sabrebattletank on April 02, 2009, 01:03:45 AM
Install Linux. Use it for everything that Windows isn't critical for.
Being a gamer using most main stream games, they do not work on linux, besides when and if i install linux i will install it on my PlayStation 3
Play Guild Wars. It works even more beautifully than Aishwarya Rai, the most beautiful woman on the planet, according to the industry standard CBS news.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/12/29/60minutes/main663862.shtml
Quote from: sabrebattletank on April 02, 2009, 01:03:45 AM
Install Linux. Use it for everything that Windows isn't critical for.
Until you get Linux viruses.
EDIT: And I do anything suspect in an isolated VM.
True. But you dont have to worry about those.
Quote from: sabrebattletank on April 02, 2009, 03:10:13 AM
True. But you dont have to worry about those.
And I don't have to worry about Windows ones since I am not inept.
EDIT: and I get tired of writing sudo for every friken little command.
Quote from: Commando on March 31, 2009, 11:28:00 PM
Yeah, I know what you mean. I spent hours last week trying to disinfect a pc then ended up having to reinstall the OS. For reasons like this, I wish owning and operating a pc required a license.
You could have posted a hijackthis log. I would have gladly helped.
Quote from: Commando on April 01, 2009, 02:35:35 PM
Last week, I ran into something neither AVG, Norton Systematic, Spybot Search and Destroy, nor Adaware SE could detect. The malware slowed the pc to a crawl and spammed the user with IE popups. I literally just said F**k it then reinstalled the OS. There are things that AVG won't detect. Heck, AVG was installed before the time of infection so not only did AVG fail to prevent it, it failed to catch it too.
You mean Norton *Service POD*:P. Ad-Aware SE is outdated.
Quote from: Nielk1 on April 01, 2009, 09:44:35 PM
When I am bored, I manually audit my registry.
I KNOW I have no viruses I do not know about.
I have some tracking cookies.
I have some false positives in a Ducati game.
I have a Virus in a file I need the file for and I can bypass the virus.
And I have tracking cookies (who doesn't).
I don't scan my PC often because I use common sense and have not needed to.
The only viruses I get are ones that sneak in from my brother's viral jungle PC and I watch that well.
I check things in a VM if I am suspicious, where I can monitor every little change that occurs.
I dont have tracking cookies at all. I use Mozilla Firefox v3.0.8.
IMO kaspersky is worthless.
These four programs have tremendously helped my efforts in cleaning all computers/labtops. I recommend trying them out if you think your unclean or not sure that you are clean if at all.
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php - MalwareBytesAntiMalware
http://www.superantispyware.com/download.html - SUPERAntiSpyware Free Edition
http://www.freedrweb.com/ Dr web cure it program. Very fast but if you get a BSOD meaning Blue Screen of Death you may have bad ram.
http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/ Stinger works well and used by various techs to find perhaps hidden infections.
Um, I use Fire Fox. YOU HAVE TRACKING COOKIES....
Perhaps you should get a checker that knows to check FireFox.
A tracking cookie is nothing more than some really simple info on you. For example, mine simply suggested I like video games, and as such caused the ads that use those cookies to display video game related ads. YOU HAVE THEM. It is IMPOSSIBLE not to have them. You can't block them all. If I wanted to, right now, I could go set up a tracking cookie for my site, even if I never act on its info, that says what parts of my site you use, and you would never know.
Virus checker should be the second line of defense, not the first. The first is always the user.
VSMIT.
Quote from: Nielk1 on April 02, 2009, 03:12:53 AM
EDIT: and I get tired of writing sudo for every friken little command.
sudo -su
if you need to do something as root that requires you to run several commands within a few minutes then that's rather useful
Check it out http://news.cnet.com/security/?tag=hdr;snav
Superior smart kiddo
Why did he doesnt want money?Hey ppl,Do you have any idea how much earn money? 1 million dollars a year? 40,000 dollars?If i were him,I would say yes
Same age as me. Bit more psychotic by the sound of it. :lol:
He doesn't want money because he is only trying to help these Twitter guys by exposing to them the cracks in their security.
It's called Morality hybrid. You know... when a person wants more of something. :-P
Come and Join our Nuclear Hackers.I m learing how to destory nuclear powers like north korea,iran,soviet union.We must stopped them from making stupid nuclear weapons through their decode computers.Any one want it? Even disable rockets!
King of Randomness.
Just because its OT doesnt mean you can park your semi on the tracks.
It's just too bad that the Soviet Union was dissolved 18 years ago, huh? And that nothing we did stopped them from making nuclear weapons.
VSMIT.
Wow. i actually have no idea what anyones talking about.
Quote from: Nielk1 on April 20, 2009, 06:53:08 AM
Just because its OT doesnt mean you can park your semi on the tracks.
And derail the topic...
I think what NK1 is trying to say is
[size=9]GET BACK ON TOPIC![/size]
Quote from: AHadley on April 21, 2009, 05:09:04 PM
I think what NK1 is trying to say is
[size=9]GET BACK ON TOPIC![/size]
Actually I was trying to be funny. I am not a very funny person... :roll:
But yeah, topic... topic... What
WAS the topic?
The topic was about Conficker, and somehow this unrelated 17-year-old worm creator was pushed in.
I meant the rather random comments about the Soviet Union :P
Quote from: Nielk1 on April 21, 2009, 08:07:30 PM
Actually I was trying to be funny. I am not a very funny person... :roll:
That was funny.