desktoppipeline.com — As the spotlight on a dangerous Windows vulnerability grows brighter by the hour, security analysts Thursday said that it's not hype driving the alarms, but genuine fear that a major worm attack is just days away. This is no drill. Thursday's deepening concern was fueled by several releases of new exploit code.
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uncommonsenseAug 11, 2006
None of those work. Tried em all, and every time I get the same reaction from women: "Awwww how cute" =o[
silentdudAug 11, 2006
the user name of the guy who submitted this looks like a bot so digg for bots.
ajucAug 11, 2006
Does it really matters, why there is so small risk of infection on any system other that Windows ? When it comes to hardware support, Linux and other open source systems are handicapped, because most manufacturers don't write drivers for them. It is Linux flaw, even if not fault of Linux community.By the way, Linux, *BSD, etc are more secure not only because it's minority.Many exploits use buffer overrun and other memory problems to inject malicious code. When there is binary monoculture, like in windows, one exploit works for all computers with the same binary.On the other side, on many Unix-like systems people compile they software themselves, with different versions of compilers and different options. That makes exploits using buffer overflow only crashing system, not compromising it (code is injected in wrong place, so it don't do what it is supposed to).So, yes, windows security problems aren't fault of MS programmers. But why should we care whose fault it is ?PSWhen I write this comment in one tab, close it, and read another digg story, message that I misspelled captcha showed in tab I've read next to this, so when I corrected captcha, this post goes to other story. I know, my fault, but maybe it can be fixed ?
slimfastforyouAug 11, 2006
Guess I'm s**t out of luck. At least it didn't accuse me of piracy like it seems to for so many others.Code not available. The validation code could not be obtained. This may be due to technical difficulties, or you may be running an unsupported operating system. Please close this window and attempt the validation process again, or use the Back button in your Web browser to return to the download details page. [Error code: 0x8004026d]
peatAug 11, 2006
@johnhummel"Side note: I'm a Mac security guy, and even I found this guy's posts to be annoying."Mac security guy!?! Consider what I've read here, that makes you the Maytag repair man of computer security. *sarcasm*
estvirAug 11, 2006
@lintrippzYou took a simple context and made something silly of it.By my 'secure because of OpenBSD' could've been replaced with FreeBSD, or some Linux distro easily, it's just that I have it configured properly with firewall and other measures in place, I don't know why you had to go off about someone wouldn't write a virus for OpenBSD blah blah.And they don't simply rely on 'security through obscurity' - every piece of code which goes into OpenBSD has quite a rigid check and so on.
kuruptAug 11, 2006
I didn't want to bother wasting my time on your post but...I just sincerely hope that nobody here would actually fall for this.@ "i used the sdbot source code for the patchin capabilities"And what prey tell might those "patchin capabilities" be?Avast - Found Win32:SdBot-3223AVG Antivirus - Found IRC/BackDoor.SdBotBitDefender - Found Backdoor.SDBot.E072CC05ClamAV - Found Trojan.SdBot.Gen-27Dr.Web - Found BackDoor.IRC.Sdbot.basedF-Prot Antivirus - Found Possibly a new variant of W32/IRCBot-based!MaximusFortinet - Found W32/SDBot.1!wormKaspersky Anti-Virus - Found Backdoor.Win32.SdBot.genNOD32 - Found a variant of IRC/SdBot Opening up a backdoor to allow access to another users system is supposed to help prevent this upcoming worm attack? o_O?
corndog41884Aug 11, 2006
What I can't seem to understand is that a month ago Microsoft was saying they were going to put out a kill switch to user who don't pay for there OS. Now in some miracle of a move they are now warning that a worm is coming much like the blaster worm and we much download there so called "update" in order to be safe. Could it be possible that the " horrible dangerous worm" was written and originated with mirosoft?
Closed AccountAug 12, 2006
Trollenlord stated about his Windows box: "There was been absolutely zero chance of getting any worm and not one single incident - not even a tiny one. It's an urban myth, a silly belief, by the non-trained and non-experienced users that Windowses are insecure."Believe it or not Trollenlord, many times worms spread on the internet before Microsoft rolls out a patch. By stating that you have "absolutely zero chance of getting any worm" you are entirely wrong. There is always a chance your box will get victimized before MIcrosoft's super efficient security team develops a patch, which as we all know never takes long... oh and by the way, what was your IP again?
Closed AccountAug 13, 2006
You can always turn off your computer. Nothing to see here except FAUX NEWS type articles.
ellenweberAug 20, 2006
The fear of these attacks is helping to create the chaos so many speak of here. We know that when fear and chaos are driving forces -- that we cannot build... invent... create ... or communicate in useful ways on a global market. This discussion reminds us that fear and chaos are not going away any time soon unless we develop new security systems with a stronger change factor for the next attacks. That too seems parallel to the changes we hope for in business systems. Brain Based Business
ninjaomaticApr 9, 2008
You mean I shouldn't open exe files attached to <a class="user" href="http://www.callerbase.com/">http://www.callerbase.com/</a> from people I don't know?