New Internet worm affects Windows users

[junkerman123]

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsartic..._RTRIDST_0_NEWS-SINGAPORE-VIRUS-DC.XML

seems like a pretty bad virus.

"It can also connect to a specific Internet relay chat server and give hackers remote control over affected systems, which can be used to infect other unpatched machines in a network and slow down the network performance."

how would that work through irc? weird...

 

[Ronin]

Scripting, basically. There are vulnerabilities in IRC that allow remote control if the user has a pathway into your PC.

 

[eplebnista]

:shocked:

 

[cjgallen]

I haven't had a virus in forever.

 

[Chompman]

Originally posted by: cjgallen
I haven't had a virus in forever.

That's what they want you to think. 😀

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: Chompman

Originally posted by: cjgallen
I haven't had a virus in forever.

That's what they want you to think. 😀

yep, the good ones you don't know about.

 

[cjgallen]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Chompman

Originally posted by: cjgallen
I haven't had a virus in forever.

That's what they want you to think. 😀

yep, the good ones you don't know about.

:roll:

 

[neutralizer]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Chompman

Originally posted by: cjgallen
I haven't had a virus in forever.

That's what they want you to think. 😀

yep, the good ones you don't know about.

Yep, noobs who use usenet get a virus that destroys their boot sector. It's awesome 😀.

 

[LikeLinus]

Originally posted by: neutralizer

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Chompman

Originally posted by: cjgallen
I haven't had a virus in forever.

That's what they want you to think. 😀

yep, the good ones you don't know about.

Yep, noobs who use usenet get a virus that destroys their boot sector. It's awesome 😀.

Why is that awesome? Such an elitest attitude. Just because someone is new doesn't mean they should have their OS and files distroyed. Thats pretty lame if you ask me.

This worm attacked our network at work. They handled it very well and it doesn't appear to have done any real damage. Sounds pretty big though.

 

[theGlove]

friends computer might have this virus, he can no longer boot up anymore

 

[Siva]

Originally posted by: LikeLinus

Originally posted by: neutralizer

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Chompman

Originally posted by: cjgallen
I haven't had a virus in forever.

That's what they want you to think. 😀

yep, the good ones you don't know about.

Yep, noobs who use usenet get a virus that destroys their boot sector. It's awesome 😀.

Why is that awesome? Such an elitest attitude. Just because someone is new doesn't mean they should have their OS and files distroyed. Thats pretty lame if you ask me.

This worm attacked our network at work. They handled it very well and it doesn't appear to have done any real damage. Sounds pretty big though.

once a virus pwns you at least you know

it makes the system stronger!

 

[bonkers325]

Originally posted by: Ronin
Scripting, basically. There are vulnerabilities in IRC that allow remote control if the user has a pathway into your PC.

i've been in IRC channels in which the users keystrokes were recorded and relayed back via irc. mostly AIM convos

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Chompman

Originally posted by: cjgallen
I haven't had a virus in forever.

That's what they want you to think. 😀

yep, the good ones you don't know about.

I know of the best one at least... Windows.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: cjgallen

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Chompman

Originally posted by: cjgallen
I haven't had a virus in forever.

That's what they want you to think. 😀

yep, the good ones you don't know about.

:roll:

Care to elaborate? Lots of folks have viruses/spyware on their computer and will never know it. No signature for it.

 

[spidey07]

OP - thanks for the heads up!
:beer:

 

[JujuFish]

Damn them thar virii.

 

[Stumps]

hmmm worms you say?, I was wondering why my PC was dragging its rear end on the ground

 

[Inappropriate4AT]

OMG!!111one YOURE STOOPID LINK GAVE ME TEH WORM!!1 YOU AM SCAM

 

[neutralizer]

Originally posted by: LikeLinus

Originally posted by: neutralizer

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Chompman

Originally posted by: cjgallen
I haven't had a virus in forever.

That's what they want you to think. 😀

yep, the good ones you don't know about.

Yep, noobs who use usenet get a virus that destroys their boot sector. It's awesome 😀.

Why is that awesome? Such an elitest attitude. Just because someone is new doesn't mean they should have their OS and files distroyed. Thats pretty lame if you ask me.

This worm attacked our network at work. They handled it very well and it doesn't appear to have done any real damage. Sounds pretty big though.

Someone's sarcasm meter is broken 😀.

 

[spidey07]

problem is it spreads on port 445.

After all the other MS security holes that one is pretty locked down once you leave a single AS and into another AS. But you can't lock it down inside the internal network MS networking doesn't work.

 

[NogginBoink]

Folks, do me a favor: install MS05-039.

The more of you that install it, the fewer of you will call me.

 

[thirdlegstump]

Is it as bad as the Microsoft Windoze virus? Good thing I use a Macintosh. Never have to worry about anything. It just works. *shrug*

 

[myusername]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: cjgallen

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Chompman

Originally posted by: cjgallen
I haven't had a virus in forever.

That's what they want you to think. 😀

yep, the good ones you don't know about.

:roll:

Care to elaborate? Lots of folks have viruses/spyware on their computer and will never know it. No signature for it.

I'm one of them :Q

Seriously guys, win2k here with IE core stripped - not only has IE never been run .. it can't because it's not installed.

I've close to a dozen different antivirus, antitrojan, and antispyware packages, as well as examined all loaded .dll's ... all found nothing ...

Yet something on it tries to make a netbios connection to random IP's on the net, as detected by firewall software and confirmed with packet sniffer.

This is from months ago and totally unrelated to the OP's current alert, but I thought I would toss in my $.02 about being smug about security. I used to be ...

 

[ssvegeta1010]

http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_135435.htm

Low risk. IRC channel control is nothing new.

 

[Chompman]

Originally posted by: myusername

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: cjgallen

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Chompman

Originally posted by: cjgallen
I haven't had a virus in forever.

That's what they want you to think. 😀

yep, the good ones you don't know about.

:roll:

Care to elaborate? Lots of folks have viruses/spyware on their computer and will never know it. No signature for it.

I'm one of them :Q

Seriously guys, win2k here with IE core stripped - not only has IE never been run .. it can't because it's not installed.

Last I checked you can't remove IE since that is what microsoft said in their lawsuit against them since it's built in the OS.

Bring up any file box and you can just enter a website and it works.

Not sure what you did to get around that. 😛