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 Nipper Plant Level: 44 Posts: 65/400 EXP: 596498 Next: 14787 Since: 02-07-09 From: The core Last post: 5320 days Last view: 5295 days |
"Blog by Christopher Null. Posted on Yahoo.com"
In an event that hits the computer world only once every few years, security experts are racing against time to mitigate the impact of a bit of malware which is set to wreak havoc on a hard-coded date. As is often the case, that date is April 1. Malware creators love to target April Fool's Day with their wares, and the latest worm, called Conficker C, could be one of the most damaging attacks we've seen in years. Conficker first bubbled up in late 2008 and began making headlines in January as known infections topped 9 million computers. Now in its third variant, Conficker C, the worm has grown incredibly complicated, powerful, and virulent... though no one is quite sure exactly what it will do when D-Day arrives. Thanks in part to a quarter-million-dollar bounty on the head of the writer of the worm, offered by Microsoft, security researchers are aggressively digging into the worm's code as they attempt to engineer a cure or find the writer before the deadline. What's known so far is that on April 1, all infected computers will come under the control of a master machine located somewhere across the web, at which point anything's possible. Will the zombie machines become denial of service attack pawns, steal personal information, wipe hard drives, or simply manifest more traditional malware pop-ups and extortion-like come-ons designed to sell you phony security software? No one knows. Conficker is clever in the way it hides its tracks because it uses an enormous number of URLs to communicate with HQ. The first version of Conficker used just 250 addresses each day -- which security researchers and ICANN simply bought and/or disabled -- but Conficker C will up the ante to 50,000 addresses a day when it goes active, a number which simply can't be tracked and disabled by hand. Well this is quite scary. O_o Does anybody have any more info on this??? Oh gawd.... ____________________ I'm not gonna be here much anymore. So yeah, go and celebrate. |
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 The Guardian Moloch whose eyes are a thousand blind windows! Level: 124 Posts: 2378/4196 EXP: 21536605 Next: 299996 Since: 02-19-07 From: Ithaca, NY, US Last post: 473 days Last view: 86 days |
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Nipper Plant Level: 44 Posts: 66/400 EXP: 596498 Next: 14787 Since: 02-07-09 From: The core Last post: 5320 days Last view: 5295 days |
umm....blackhole89....
.... nevermind... ____________________ I'm not gonna be here much anymore. So yeah, go and celebrate. |
| Tyty |
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 Vire Jizz Danmaku Level: 77 Posts: 783/1381 EXP: 4046712 Next: 144417 Since: 04-20-07 From: Canada Last post: 4449 days Last view: 3721 days |
Shouldn't this be somewhere else?
Like hard-/software? Moving it now. ____________________ |
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Level: 59 Posts: 197/755 EXP: 1601758 Next: 71370 Since: 01-02-08 Last post: 4495 days Last view: 3308 days |
this may be the best thing ever ____________________ havin' a ball |
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The Guardian Moloch whose eyes are a thousand blind windows! Level: 124 Posts: 2379/4196 EXP: 21536605 Next: 299996 Since: 02-19-07 From: Ithaca, NY, US Last post: 473 days Last view: 86 days |
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Level: 59 Posts: 198/755 EXP: 1601758 Next: 71370 Since: 01-02-08 Last post: 4495 days Last view: 3308 days |
blackhole: inorite
this all just seems way too serious for it to actually be real. it also seems highly unlikely that it's an actual virus, i mean seriously? Conifcker C? that's not really a good name for a virus sounds more like a medicine ____________________ havin' a ball |
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go away Level: 86 Posts: 1557/1788 EXP: 5988360 Next: 153747 Since: 02-23-07 Last post: 4971 days Last view: 1540 days |
http://mtc.sri.com/Conficker/addendumC/index.html |
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Level: 59 Posts: 199/755 EXP: 1601758 Next: 71370 Since: 01-02-08 Last post: 4495 days Last view: 3308 days |
Arbe that kicks ass ____________________ havin' a ball |
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 Red Birdo Level: 92 Posts: 1733/2112 EXP: 7690673 Next: 66264 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 4450 days Last view: 3221 days |
My parents are worried about it, so from late March 31st to early April 2nd our router's gonna be unplugged 
But as far as Conficker goes, it certainly *sounds* nasty. Myself, I'm going to end up backing up my info and wiping sensitive stuff (classic CYA stuff because I've got my name on an NDA), but apart from that I wonder what'll happen. |
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The Guardian Moloch whose eyes are a thousand blind windows! Level: 124 Posts: 2380/4196 EXP: 21536605 Next: 299996 Since: 02-19-07 From: Ithaca, NY, US Last post: 473 days Last view: 86 days |
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 Buster Beetle Goddamn citrus! Level: 47 Posts: 451/459 EXP: 740444 Next: 25759 Since: 10-20-08 From: The Bowels of Hell Last post: 5510 days Last view: 5407 days |
I should lure that worm onto my USB drive and have fun with the school board's server.
Not like the goddamn server's used to do research and useful stuff. The only thing I see happening on those goddamn screens is WC3 and Runescape. Seriously, they need to go play on their own computers. ____________________ RAEG |
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 Giant Koopa I might be alive, but chances are that's not the case. Level: 73 Posts: 358/1273 EXP: 3421412 Next: 64456 Since: 10-15-08 From: Lulzerland Last post: 4590 days Last view: 4496 days |
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 Fuzzy Son of a bitch, I'm sick of these dolphins... Level: 59 Posts: 305/778 EXP: 1634678 Next: 38450 Since: 10-15-08 From: Florida Last post: 5185 days Last view: 4953 days |
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Vire Jizz Danmaku Level: 77 Posts: 785/1381 EXP: 4046712 Next: 144417 Since: 04-20-07 From: Canada Last post: 4449 days Last view: 3721 days |
Posted by nutman217 I wish I could play WC3 on my school computers. That game is the shit. I'm not worried, at most I'll lose some Touhou games and a lot of pictures. Not much. ____________________ |
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 Morton Koopa Feel the pain of those inferior beings...as you burn in hell! Level: 98 Posts: 1301/2410 EXP: 9374184 Next: 280169 Since: 02-19-07 From: Sweden Last post: 4517 days Last view: 4498 days |
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The Guardian Moloch whose eyes are a thousand blind windows! Level: 124 Posts: 2381/4196 EXP: 21536605 Next: 299996 Since: 02-19-07 From: Ithaca, NY, US Last post: 473 days Last view: 86 days |
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