Just on the news like 5 mins ago, apparently there's a new worm going that no-one knows what it's supposed to be do exactly. It's called Conficker C
Quote from: CNNThe malicious program already is thought to have infected between 5 million and 10 million computers.
Quote from: CNNThe program's code is also written to evolve over time and its author appears to be making updates to thwart some of the Conficker Cabal's attempts to neuter the worm.
It's supposed to disable auto-matic updates. CA said they found a peice of code that showed the worm would activate on April the 1
st.
Microsoft even offered a 250k reward to anyone who has info leading to the creator of the worm!
Also once the worm is in your computer, it connects to a link back to its origin and waits for more orders.
Some one took April fools day to seriously... <_<'
Its not April Fools. Its been out since October. And its just Conficker, Conficker-C is the most recent strain.
And this is serious. Noone knows what the crap its gonna do. This could take out the internet. All of it.
Here's to staying up all night to watch network activity logs to see the fun happen :P
I just hope I don't get it... :P Lucky I backed up most of my stuff to my other HDD yesterday :D
Also I hope I come across something to find the creator, I'd like that 250,000 :^_^':
Good that you backed it up. MS released a tool to remove, though. You can Google it and cure yourself :P
just checked and not infected whew. hope it doesnt do anything super major to people :(
I heard about it as well watching the news O.o and I dont have another HD all I have are 2, 1 gb flashdrives. So like how is it possible to obtain the virus like how would you get it?
You know what'll be evil? If Microsoft had a sense of humor.
"Ahaha.. The virus doesn't exist we made a harmless code and then put a bounty out on ourselves. April Fools bitches."
You get it by not patching windows, then getting unlucky.
HAHA, we told you to switch to Linux, but you never believed us... j/k. This isn't that serious, just download the tool from MS. I think it switches from infection mode to w/e mode tomorrow, so yeah.
I wonder if im infected. If i am, I wonder what it's gonna do. NOTE: IM NOT GONNA GO UN-ME-LIKE TOMORROW.
Let's hope that the host isn't infected.
And maybe that the FBI is infected. That would be nice. :D
If it disalbes automatic updates, then it's a good virus IMO. :D
Quote from: Blizzard on April 01, 2009, 03:18:54 am
If it disalbes automatic updates, then it's a good virus IMO. :D
This.. I can't stress how many times I was looking at po...kemon and the AU popped up and asked me told me it was going to restart whether I like it or not.
Quote from: RoseSkye on April 01, 2009, 05:14:48 am
Quote from: Blizzard on April 01, 2009, 03:18:54 am
If it disalbes automatic updates, then it's a good virus IMO. :D
This.. I can't stress how many times I was looking at po...kemon and the AU popped up and asked me told me it was going to restart whether I like it or not.
jus ctrl, alt del and delete it off your process tab.
Quote from: Blizzard on April 01, 2009, 03:18:54 am
If it disalbes automatic updates, then it's a good virus IMO. :D
yeah i agree, updates only screws up my laptop, i have to whip my hd a few times in the past 3months, becouse of updates.
Auto updates....Mine have been off for at least 7 months now :o I hate them. xD
@susys: It doesn't work on Conficker. Welcome to the twenty-first century, when viruses hack the registry and n00bs can't fight back.
A w00t, it comes 0n!1n3 today (I feel like 1337 I'm so happy :P)
Our school might just lose half its computers :P
What does the conficker virus do? Nothin' (a.k.a watching you masturbate)
As far as Wikipedia seems to say (since NOTHING else I'd check actually tells me what it's doing. They conveniently stopped updating for this month, just as the big risk they've been mentioning finally was unleashed.), The new version (which everyone connected to the internet and having any version of Conficker now has or is now downloading) does not spread (which sounds really stupid to me). It downloads from 500 sites from a random list of 50,000 with over 110 TLDs (.com, .org, .edu, etc) (I don't know what it's downloading), kills all anti-malware processes it detects once a second, disables auto-update, and prevents you from opening websites related to anti-malware or auto-update.
And then there's the odd part, the new thing that people really don't understand yet: It creates a peer-to-peer network and shares some data with other Conficker "enhanced" computers. People aren't sure what it's doing with that, but that's the big interesting thing none of the others have been doing. So, that is, from what I can tell, basically the point of this entire virus: sharing... something.
The virus is going to make everyone's computer explode all at the same time causing the earth to crack in half!! WE GONNA DIE!!! :o
yay.
It stopped spreading because:
It has 10 Million already infected. It doesn't need any more.
Disabling Automatic Updates:
Then you all probably have Conficker. It attacked only those who didn't update. And yet people still complain about security 0_o I mean, M$ still sucks at it, but you have to give them a chance.
how do we know if we have it? Is there a way to check?
http://tinyurl.com/c3yqof
Quote from: WcW on April 05, 2009, 11:03:56 am
It stopped spreading because:
It has 10 Million already infected. It doesn't need any more.
Well, it depends on what the virus is attempting to DO. If it's attempting to enforce Earth Hour, then it's probably hit enough computers to do the job pretty well. If it's trying to rule the world, then it needs more
souls computers.
I've heard it also disables your access to Anti-Malware sites. So if you can, say, download Spybot, then you probably don't have it.
I know I don't have it since I just had to reinstall Vista... FOR THE SAME REASON AS LAST TIME! M$, please TELL me that a file I just compressed has to be uncompressed for the computer to start. And if it doesn't, then make the utility on the install disk that's only DESIGNED to clear up problems with the system's startup actually CHECK THAT and maybe, just maybe, even FIX IT!
L:KATHPB)&P @%468#*61( )&-07q+p 64!!!!!!Sorry... I'm a bit pissed off about that still... xD
Check the first link on my link. Explains.
And I don't think that it's point matters: 10 million computers can DoS the world. That's enough power to force world super powers to bow to your will.
It's July. That's past april. My computer is still on, and noone is dead. I thought the cunt licker virus was supposed to do something more? What gives? Anyone have news on it?
Quote from: Longfellow on April 05, 2009, 11:20:25 pm
Check the first link on my link. Explains.
And I don't think that it's point matters: 10 million computers can DoS the world. That's enough power to force world super powers to bow to your will.
It's also enough power to download a
shitload of porn.
Quote from: Seox on July 15, 2009, 09:44:59 pm
It's July. That's past april. My computer is still on, and noone is dead. I thought the cunt licker virus was supposed to do something more? What gives? Anyone have news on it?
Quote from: Longfellow on April 05, 2009, 11:20:25 pm
Check the first link on my link. Explains.
And I don't think that it's point matters: 10 million computers can DoS the world. That's enough power to force world super powers to bow to your will.
It's also enough power to download a shitload of porn.
The only reason that your computer would crash would be if a) You were infected and b) The controllers hit the kill switch.
Right now, Conficker-E is pretty much just a botnet, though noone can tell for sure what it's doing, since they've yet to crack the current obfuscation technique.
Quote from: Longfellow on July 15, 2009, 11:09:52 pm
Quote from: Seox on July 15, 2009, 09:44:59 pm
It's July. That's past april. My computer is still on, and noone is dead. I thought the cunt licker virus was supposed to do something more? What gives? Anyone have news on it?
Quote from: Longfellow on April 05, 2009, 11:20:25 pm
Check the first link on my link. Explains.
And I don't think that it's point matters: 10 million computers can DoS the world. That's enough power to force world super powers to bow to your will.
It's also enough power to download a shitload of porn.
The only reason that your computer would crash would be if a) You were infected and b) The controllers hit the kill switch.
Right now, Conficker-E is pretty much just a botnet, though noone can tell for sure what it's doing, since they've yet to crack the current obfuscation technique.
So then, I take it that they did NOTHING on april fools? THOSE LIARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >:(
guys its pretty easy to get off your computer. my moms laptop got it, all i did was get on the library computers and email anti-virus software since the worm corrupts all ur auto updates and virus-protections.
oh and i have a wild guess on who made this. Bill Gates! He's tired of his money so hes giving it away, Maybe this is a conspiricy by Microsoft to get rid of his money 8)
Quote from: C.C. rOyAl on August 19, 2009, 01:05:23 pm
guys its pretty easy to get off your computer. my moms laptop got it, all i did was get on the library computers and email anti-virus software since the worm corrupts all ur auto updates and virus-protections.
oh and i have a wild guess on who made this. Bill Gates! He's tired of his money so hes giving it away, Maybe this is a conspiricy by Microsoft to get rid of his money 8)
Your mom's laptop should've been up-to-date with patches; go fix it, lazyface >=V :V
But seriously, all the vulnerabilities that Conficker targets are patched - Win7 or updated XP/Vista don't have any issues.
i know im lazy 8)
its one of my many hobbies
Here's a solution. Download a linux distro then you can emulate windows or OSX. But there's even better news! You won't have to emulate OSX since it's just UNIX!!!! HOLY FUCK
Quote from: Diokatsu on August 19, 2009, 11:01:08 pm
Here's a solution. Download a linux distro then you can emulate windows or OSX. But there's even better news! You won't have to emulate OSX since it's just UNIX!!!! HOLY FUCK
1) Use OS X before you judge it again. For your information, the UNIX standards stop at the command line/low-level infrastructure. While they are extremely similar, and I love both, Linux is most definitely
not Mac. They're totally different, and they both have their ups and downs.
2) Cocoa, the OS X API, has neither emulation nor an open-source equivalent; to run Mac apps, you
have to have a Mac (though, since almost all the underpinnings are open-source, you can do most of what the apps could do without the apps anyway).
3) WINE pwns :P
Ya I was just making fun of Apple because my iPod is still broke but the warrenty ran out so my life is basically over.
Quote from: Diokatsu on August 19, 2009, 11:10:44 pm
Ya I was just making fun of Apple because my iPod is still broke but the warrenty ran out so my life is basically over.
DEAR GOD, THE RESPONSE SPEED
You have excellent timing also my friend.
Quote from: Diokatsu on August 19, 2009, 11:12:52 pm
You have excellent timing also my friend.
I'd say we average out evenish.