New virus/worm appearing, read:

[calfoxwc]

I personally use and recommend Spysweeper Anti-Virus and Anti-spyware - it does both in one package.

 

A very excellent, low cost software that will save you a lot of trouble on the net.

 

I don't know yet if it will remove the worm talked about in this article...

 

but it says MS has updated their remover to do the job:

 

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CN...;show_article=1

 

You can download the free malicious spyware remover from Microsoft here:

 

(I scanned, didn't have anything. Thanks to Spysweeper)

 

 

http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.mspx

[Kosar_For_President]

I personally use and recommend Spysweeper Anti-Virus and Anti-spyware - it does both in one package.

 

A very excellent, low cost software that will save you a lot of trouble on the net.

 

I don't know yet if it will remove the worm talked about in this article...

 

but it says MS has updated their remover to do the job:

 

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CN...;show_article=1

 

You can download the free malicious spyware remover from Microsoft here:

 

(I scanned, didn't have anything. Thanks to Spysweeper)

 

 

http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.mspx

 

This is BS. Oh the WORM.....LOL

 

1. Don't go to porn sites

2. Don't go to porn sites

3. Don't open email who you don't know where it's from (use yahoo, msn, etc if need be)

4. Don't download illegal anything

 

I have had both Mac and Windows for about 12 years now, I got one virus, from my Retard brother looking up porn and downloading music from Limewire.

 

It look like in this case you should make all the required updates, by going to Microsofts website (never leave your auto updater on and never click the bottom right toolbar saying "update now", or you'll get infected.

 

If you feel the need, AVG makes a free anti-virus software that is way behind the rest in terms of virus updates, but free. These worms are an attempt to get you to BUY anti-virus software. I had a friend from Sacramento who worked freelance for Symantic, and he could of swore on his life he saw documents that he wasn't supposed to see, about hiring outside sources to create viruses and push them out to the public. My guess is via limewire and torrents.

 

What is the big deal if you are infected. Well boo hoo. Make a disk image back your shit up. Drives are like $50 these days. You should be re-installing your system software every year anyways.

 

Just buy a Mac, 92% of virus do not infect my sweet MacBook, G5 tower or my Mini Mac at work. Or my Dell laptop or desktop for that matter, but never say never on the later.

 

[Legacy Fan]

Avira Anti-virus (free); 15" Dell; Scrubtown-ass Vista; zero viruses.

 

If it weren't for Clinical imaging software for Dental school being PC based, I'd own a mac.

 

But, it helps that I can build & rebuild PC systems & have everything backed-up, should my computer get the flu. My vista system is basically XP after all of the performance adjustments and complete wipe down I did once I unboxed it.

 

Microsoft blows. Vista's DVD burning program doesnt work with Vista's movie maker program. Nice work, Bill. And I'm just trying to make videos of my kids, not some Dawson's Creek film school douche-hole that needs ridiculous editing requirements.

[Kosar_For_President]

Avira Anti-virus (free); 15" Dell; Scrubtown-ass Vista; zero viruses.

 

If it weren't for Clinical imaging software for Dental school being PC based, I'd own a mac.

 

But, it helps that I can build & rebuild PC systems & have everything backed-up, should my computer get the flu. My vista system is basically XP after all of the performance adjustments and complete wipe down I did once I unboxed it.

 

Microsoft blows. Vista's DVD burning program doesnt work with Vista's movie maker program. Nice work, Bill. And I'm just trying to make videos of my kids, not some Dawson's Creek film school douche-hole that needs ridiculous editing requirements.

 

Come on you know you love Dawson

 

[Legacy Fan]

I love his haircut.

[calfoxwc]

But you can get bad stuff a lot of good places.

 

When I worked for the Geek Squad, Best Buy, we had a lady come in who was horrified that the only place she

let her young girls get on the internet was the Disney site.

 

Well, she was crying, she was an avid church going Baptist, and she started up her computer, via her

secret password, and clicked on the Disney site link in her favorites, and got up to go fix dinner.

 

Her two twin very young girls were sent to an xxx rated site instead. Their browser was hijacked.

 

All sorts of stories. There's tons and tons of spyware out there, and generally, your .exe programs, are

not backed up all too often.

 

And, get a bad bug, and it could just as easily infect your backup.

 

Besides, whether or not some companies "encourage" bad stuff be created to up their sales isn't the point.

 

It's just much easier to protect your computer to avoid headaches. Some of the worst spyware, not uncommon

 

at all, is the kind that tracks you keystrokes, they can steal your passwords, and the spyware owner can

get access to your financial stuff, your on line banking, your address book, etc.

 

Backing up doesn't fix that.

[PB&J]

I used to play computer games a whole lot when I was in high school, so I had to run windows. Whenever I would pick up a virus or something I would like to dig around to kill it manually. It was really fun, I made a game out of it. Now I just run Linux distros. Antivirus programs are just a formality for linux, even though it isn't air tight.

 

When I worked at an IT department it was alarming how many people had programs to prevent viruses but didn't know how to use them properly, or even just ignored them. I am surprised people are still so computer illiterate considering the whole world runs on them. Just stay off of the (bad) porno sites and the (bad) file sharing protocols and be vigilante and you will have no problems at all.

[Kosar_For_President]

But you can get bad stuff a lot of good places.

 

When I worked for the Geek Squad, Best Buy, we had a lady come in who was horrified that the only place she

let her young girls get on the internet was the Disney site.

 

Well, she was crying, she was an avid church going Baptist, and she started up her computer, via her

secret password, and clicked on the Disney site link in her favorites, and got up to go fix dinner.

 

Her two twin very young girls were sent to an xxx rated site instead. Their browser was hijacked.

 

All sorts of stories. There's tons and tons of spyware out there, and generally, your .exe programs, are

not backed up all too often.

 

And, get a bad bug, and it could just as easily infect your backup.

 

Besides, whether or not some companies "encourage" bad stuff be created to up their sales isn't the point.

 

It's just much easier to protect your computer to avoid headaches. Some of the worst spyware, not uncommon

 

at all, is the kind that tracks you keystrokes, they can steal your passwords, and the spyware owner can

get access to your financial stuff, your on line banking, your address book, etc.

 

Backing up doesn't fix that.

 

That's all true. My solution: buy a Mac.

[PB&J]

That's all true. My solution: buy a Mac.

 

 

If you want to pay a premium for a closed operating system and closed hardware selection. And it isn't like macs are any more safe than any other computer, they are just as vulnerable. As long as anybody just uses common sense on the internet they will be fine.

[PB&J]

How the Conficker Problem Just Got Much Worse

By John Mahoney, 1:00 PM on Fri Apr 3 2009

 

On the surface, April 1 came and went without a peep from the dreaded Conficker megaworm. But security experts see a frightening reality, one where Conficker is now more powerful and more dangerous than ever.

 

In the first minute of April 1, Conficker did exactly what everyone knew it was going to do: It successfully phoned home for an update. And while it was fun to imagine what nasty payload that update may have included (it was fun, wasn't it?), the result was not outwardly catastrophic; rather than a blueprint for world domination, the update contained instructions on how to dig in even deeper.

 

"The worm did exactly what everyone thought it was going to do, which is update itself," security expert Dan Kaminsky, who helped develop a widely-used Conficker scanner in the days leading up to April 1, told us. "The world wants there to be fireworks, or some Ebola-class, computers-exploding-all-over-the-world event or God knows what, but the reality is...the Conficker developers have cemented their ability to push updates through any fences the good guys have managed to build in February and March."

 

And here's why that is deeply, deeply scary. As we explained, Conficker has built a zombie botnet infrastructure by registering hundreds of spam DNS names (askcw.com.ru, and the like), which it then links up and uses as nodes for infected machines to contact for instructions. In its earlier forms, Conficker attempted to register 250 such DNS names per day. But with the third version of the software, the Conficker.c variant which has been floating around for the last month or so, the number of spam DNS takeovers was boosted to 50,000 per day—a number security pros can no longer keep up with.

 

What the April 1 update did was simple: It provided instructions for linking up with the thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of new nodes registered by Conficker.c over the last few weeks, effectively growing the size of the p2p botnet to a point where it can not be stopped.

 

"It's not about ownage, it's about continued ownage," says Kaminsky, citing a favorite quotation of one of his hacker buddies. "It's not about how you get into the network, it's about, 'How do you be [there] a year from now?'" And the answer is: "You do a lot of the things the Conficker developers are doing."

 

"This is not something where the guys wrote it, it's out, then they're going to go out and play Nintendo. They're frankly trying to build something that is a sustainable network for months or years to come," Kaminsky says.

 

Kevin Haley, director of Symantec Security Response, raises another good point: "The first [of April] would have been a pretty bad day to choose [to do something with Conficker], because everyone was watching to see what was going to happen. Whoever's behind this is as lot more patient than we are."

 

As far as what comes next? More waiting. Good methods now exist for detecting and cleansing Conficker from infected machines on a network (and, let's not forget, a months-old security patch from Microsoft is all you need to protect yourself), but by now the size of Conficker's infected army of nodes spread around the world is big enough to function with devastating consequences even if most PCs are secure.

 

So we'll just have to keep waiting to see what this thing does.

 

http://i.gizmodo.com/5197148/how-the-confi...-got-much-worse

 

Because I know that I don't have it, I think this whole thing is pretty cool. It is too bad that people who write programs like this give hackers a bad name.

 

[osusev]

good god, this "bug" is SO overblown..... Macs are what percentage of all computer users? They are not more "safe" Black hats just dont care about their pitiful amount of total users.

 

Russian and Chinese black hats if they want you they will find a way... brute force attacks whatever. If you operate on dangerous file sharing sites well you want something for free than you take the risk that comes with the concept of free.

[choco]

MAC's have nothing to do with this sev.....

 

even if it is overblown, the "potential" is there for some disruption to some services. not everyone updates their machines.....which is the root of the problem in my eyes.

 

 

[Kosar_For_President]

Like I said people, this was bullshit. I'm still here and my Windows machine is working just fine.

[PB&J]

It wasn't bullshit, it did exactly what it was supposed to do. Even when everyone tried to stop it. Just because everyone expected the world to end because it was so mysterious doesn't mean it didn't work.

[Kosar_For_President]

It wasn't bullshit, it did exactly what it was supposed to do. Even when everyone tried to stop it. Just because everyone expected the world to end because it was so mysterious doesn't mean it didn't work.

 

True, but my cpu's and server are just fine, which proves it didn't exist. Sure it worked, just on the tards computers they don't know how to update.

[PB&J]

Well that's been true since October when it was first patched.

[choco]

"well, my machines are fine. so this worm didn't exist"

 

-web developer

[Kosar_For_President]

"well, my machines are fine. so this worm didn't exist"

 

-web developer

 

Actually chokeo, I set up many of networks, servers and backup systems. Enough to know how easy it is. But nice try.

[calfoxwc]

But you aren't a "C" programmer, or assembler programmer, etc... you don't really know.

 

These things aren't written in HTML, ya know. @@

[Kosar_For_President]

But you aren't a "C" programmer, or assembler programmer, etc... you don't really know.

 

These things aren't written in HTML, ya know. @@

 

What's HTML have anything to do with setting up a server, lol. .php, sql, coldfusion 6+ years. Set up networks, servers and backups for 10+ printing companies. I am not sure what you are saying here. My 16 year old cousin sets up servers and runs cable for networks, lol. I guess you have to have a degree to work for the Geek Squad, lol. Update ram, "install" hard drive, wipe hard drive, configure $50 router, rip people off = "Geek Squad". Dude I was doing that shit 10 years ago when you were plowing the fields. Dude your high tech. Classic.

[osusev]

Cal must have forgotten about sql injections.... or is some oracle level database specialist. HTML as a basis for "virus" and or worms.....lol.

 

The wide use of the word "IT" and or "programmer"....

 

Kosar on another note Coldfusion.... really? No .net background?

 

By the way we are looking at adding some "programmers" .net is a must 3yrs minimum if you know anyone pm and let me know I am accepting resumes.

 

Dont be too hard the on the geek squad/ formerlly firedog guys... They are making money just like anyone else is. Obviously geared for base level consumers not enterprise class clients. Its still a valuable market to serve. They are expensive for their qualifications.

[Kosar_For_President]

Cal must have forgotten about sql injections.... or is some oracle level database specialist. HTML as a basis for "virus" and or worms.....lol.

 

The wide use of the word "IT" and or "programmer"....

 

Kosar on another note Coldfusion.... really? No .net background?

 

By the way we are looking at adding some "programmers" .net is a must 3yrs minimum if you know anyone pm and let me know I am accepting resumes.

 

Dont be too hard the on the geek squad/ formerlly firedog guys... They are making money just like anyone else is. Obviously geared for base level consumers not enterprise class clients. Its still a valuable market to serve. They are expensive for their qualifications.

 

Yea I know Sev, Coldfusion, lol. The company I started programming for (I was actually their Marketing Manager at the time) had a Coldfusion site, but I know it none the less. I am working on some .net stuff at home, I'm getting it. Every company I worked for in the last 5 years have had .php sites, so what can I do, just haven't had the time to get around to .net. I figured I know that, the .net will come easy. Have been working in EVERY aspect of printing for 15 years, then in 2001 when 1/2 the printing companies went out of business, the owners went "maybe we should get into this internet thing", to funny. So there I come in.

 

Sorry sev, xxxx the "Geek Squad". If people knew how utterly easy it is to switch out a xxxxing hard drive they would be out of business.

[PB&J]

I don't know if you guys have seen this website, but if you've ever worked in an IT job where you interact with customers the stories are so hilarious, and you just know they are true.

 

http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/

[calfoxwc]

Hardy har. the point was, "lol", viruses and worms.

 

They are programmed. They aren't created by guys who set up networks.

 

You don't create a virus or worm by swapping out a hard drive.

 

I only worked at the Geek "eek" Squad in between contracts.

 

Been formally programming since the early 80's.

 

But, Kosar and Sev, do explain how you create a computer virus or worm

 

by setting up a network printer. I'm pretty sure all of us would be intrigued.

 

PS. You don't program one in HTML. idiots.

[Kosar_For_President]

Been formally programming since the early 80's.

 

PS. You don't program one in HTML. idiots.

 

Sweet, design me a site in COBOL

 

Come on Cal you got teabaggin on the brain. We know exactly how they are made, lol. Just you inferring that we think HTML is used to design virus shows you have no skills. Maybe you should ask one of your customers how they got a virus by setting up a network printer, lol, ask them because I am sure they found a way

[Legacy Fan]

Can we hurry this along please?

 

Otherwise, feel free to have your tri-lam chapter meeting via PM.

[Kosar_For_President]

Can we hurry this along please?

 

Otherwise, feel free to have your tri-lam chapter meeting via PM.

 

Dude, Wormser is the best programmer ever, don't even go there. Booger's my hero. Hey Cal Leg must be one of your customers.

[calfoxwc]

Let me spell it out s-l-o-w-l-y so you can get it.

 

See,

you

talked

about

programming

a virus

etc, and

you backed

it up

with

saying

you

 

set

up

networks

and

were

a

web

site

developer.

 

That

is

what

is

funny.

 

Therefore,

I

said

go

ahead,

web

site

developer,

show

us

how

to

write

a

virus

in

Html.

 

That's

all.

[Legacy Fan]

Hey Cal Leg must be one of your customers.

 

Ha!

 

You mean the $149 I paid the Geek Squad to get my "mac up & running out of the box" was a rip-off?

 

 

*wishing I owned a mac*

[Kosar_For_President]

What does xxxx HTML have to do with creating a virus? C++ anyone, hey Cal give me your ip, I'll infect your computer. Come on it will be fun. JK, I wouldn't do that to ya.