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- Sideshowslob, on 07/13/2009, -1/+60"The malware is MyDoom being used is MyDoom"
Excellent reporting. - snagglefoof, on 07/13/2009, -3/+53"The malware is MyDoom being used is MyDoom"
Nice one. - OddworldTeddy, on 07/13/2009, -3/+39Almost as good as not being ***** stupid.
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..................................., - skelooth, on 07/13/2009, -3/+33"The malware is MyDoom being used is MyDoom"
I understand clearly. - wolfing, on 07/13/2009, -0/+28If they had used MyQuake we'd be Doomed
- JROXZ, on 07/13/2009, -3/+30............................................________
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..................................., - Rudegar, on 07/13/2009, -0/+22Suicide mean the bots don't go to bot heaven :O
- kaminariko, on 07/13/2009, -2/+24Do Apple fanboys just wait around for this sort of thing to pop up, so they can jump up and do the superior dance for everyone?
- GreatSunJester, on 07/13/2009, -3/+24Be gentle, it is really all they have.
- Mutt76, on 07/13/2009, -0/+18ok, so when a program needs root level access it pops up and asks for the root password. How many idiot mac users are going to enter the password without thinking twice about it. Especially with more and more people crossing over and assuming it is impossible to get a virus on a mac.
In the end all computers are as vulnerable as the person sitting in front of it. - darkuk, on 07/13/2009, -2/+19............................................________
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..................................., - techdever, on 07/13/2009, -3/+20............................................________
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..................................., - snagglefoof, on 07/13/2009, -2/+18I think trillions is a bit of a stretch...
- twiztidsinz, on 07/13/2009, -3/+18Or.... 4chan is just a ***** site and ***** community that someone wanted to take down.
- SilentJay74, on 07/13/2009, -8/+22Let's not be so naive as thinking that just because you have a Mac that you can't get a virus. I can almost promise as Apple gains more popularity and a bigger market share, more Mal-ware will be written for them. As it stands right now it is almost a waste of time to write malicious code for a Mac. But mark my words, the more popular they get, the more issues they will face.
There are viruses out there that can affect a Mac, but there are not as many as there are for PC exploitation. - slug007, on 07/13/2009, -1/+15No *****. That's been the case for trillions of years.
- twiztidsinz, on 07/13/2009, -0/+13Look at the timestamps before being a douche...
They were made less than two minutes apart, very good chance they were not there when he loaded the comments. - SilentJay74, on 07/13/2009, -2/+14
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..................................., - spdaniel91, on 07/13/2009, -1/+12a) "the amount of sites I visit that'll leave a .exe file on my desktop"
Yeah, because they magically appear there? Or maybe you downloaded them?
b) "if I was running a PC those files would install automatically"
Um, no.
And in my recent experience with computers, the only viruses I got were from keygens which I "shouldn't" be downloading anyway. - krisrm, on 07/13/2009, -0/+10You need to sleep off a few of those extra exclamation points, by the looks of it...
- PostalPenguin, on 07/13/2009, -0/+9Hopefully the 50,000 computer users who find their data gone will learn to patch their computers to protect against a 5 year old worm
- drmangrum, on 07/13/2009, -0/+9Glad I'm not the only one that spotted that.
Do editors even try anymore? - LittleDas, on 07/13/2009, -0/+8OH WOW LOOK AT ME I CAN TAKE DOWN 4CHAN. The site buckles under the regular load, I can't imagine it takes much to bring the place to its knees.
- SilentJay74, on 07/13/2009, -1/+9Hey Brain child. The DDOS attack comes from infected PC's KNOWN AS A BOTNET . The infected PC's send massive packets of data directed at the target website which bring it down. If a PC gets certain Malware, becomes a zombie, it becomes part of the massive network sending the packets. Without the Malware to direct the PC's then the DDOS would not happen.
The discussion that we were having is that certain OS's are more vulnerable to become part of the BOTNET.
kthxbai - snagglefoof, on 07/13/2009, -3/+10This is one of the strangest comments sections I've ever participated in.
- inactive, on 07/13/2009, -1/+8Dugg for "Mass Bot Suicide".
- Akaricloud, on 07/13/2009, -0/+7"As a friend of mine once said, a DDOS is like ringing someone's doorbell and running away. It doesn't do any real damage, but it's really bothersome. Eventually the attacker gets tired of it too."
Tell that to the South Korean online banking industry that have had their websites targeted and the resultant downtime has cost them unknown millions of dollars. - bigteebo, on 07/13/2009, -0/+6Must be a recursive algo it uses.
- GamerXR72, on 07/13/2009, -3/+9
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..................................., - drmangrum, on 07/13/2009, -1/+7You're assuming there is no way around it. There is always a way. Nobody cares about Mac users yet, the pond is too small. If you're fishing, do you fish in a pond with 5000 fish or a pond that has 50?
- AndrewSnook, on 07/13/2009, -2/+8............................................________
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..................................., - snagglefoof, on 07/13/2009, -1/+7haha
- jaythree9, on 07/13/2009, -0/+5you are late to the party.
- Tehrab, on 07/13/2009, -1/+6This logic isn't necessarily true. Windows' popularity as a platform for virus activity is a combination of both the large installed base and a frustratingly poor security compliment. After all, Linux's presence in the data center is enormous and being in the data center presents a much richer target to virus authors but has been largely untouched because it is generally pretty damn difficult to write a functioning virus for Linux. The same goes for OS X, to a degree.
Now that Windows is becoming a bit more hardened, at least in line with OS X, you'll see virus authors find they have to push themselves harder to come up with code that works. As they get better, you'll see not only OS X take hits but Linux and others data center OS's as well. - jemka, on 07/13/2009, -0/+5@nagglefoof,
fine, trillion - krisrm, on 07/13/2009, -1/+5You crashed my helicopter!
- twiztidsinz, on 07/13/2009, -2/+6@kaminariko: With tweezers in hand!
- Tehrab, on 07/13/2009, -0/+4I guess I just meant to say that market share plays a role, for sure, but it isn't the sole reason as evidenced by a large market in Linux servers.
- darkmagician777, on 07/13/2009, -0/+4Buried - "It is still possible that the attacks are the unsophisticated work of North Korea "
Simply put any article which contains some detailed information and then adds maybe , possible or perhaps is stringing the reader along for some form of deceptive. Like infomercials. - arunforce, on 07/13/2009, -2/+6'"The malware is MyDoom being used is MyDoom"
Nice one.
"The malware is MyDoom being used is MyDoom"
Excellent reporting.'
Excellent Duplicate. - 1hrSleep, on 07/13/2009, -0/+4...Didn't 4chan bring itself down with users accidentally DDOSing the site when they downloaded bad links?
- oldhick, on 07/13/2009, -1/+4The vast majority of exploits have been aimed at IIS? Cause SANS says otherwise.
SANS says the vast majority of threats are:
PHP Remote File Includes
XSS or cross-site scripting attacks
Cross-site request forgeries
and SQL injection attacks.
And 12% server market share is IMPRESSIVE! Beats their 1% desktop market share... - cyssero, on 07/13/2009, -5/+8"it's amazing the amount of sites I visit that'll leave a .exe file on my desktop"
Borez is clearly just making things up. No website can magically leave a .exe on your desktop. And Windows will not automatically run that .exe on your desktop either. You're hallucinating.
The main difference between a Mac user and a Windows user is that we don't have to make up falsehoods to attack the security of the other operating system, it seems. - Zippo, on 07/13/2009, -1/+4Oh ffs, this argument again? Yes, as Mac gains popularity, more people will target the OS. However, the OS is inherently quite difficult to infect. Same with Linux and other UNIX-based systems.
This is evident in that every virus that HAS come out has been weak or buggy at best. Nothing's been able to take down the system or do any real damage. And almost everything has also required an admin pass prompt.
Unless Apple screws up and leaves a hole wide open, most attempts to infect the system will be fruitless... and most of the successful attempts will because the user was an idiot and put in his admin password.
If anything, if it was just as easy to infect as Windows is, you'd have a group of anti-Apple programmers out there waging war on the system, trying to shut up the fanboys. - buckrogers1965, on 07/14/2009, -0/+3Nobody knows anything. Article is full of baseless speculation. Good times.
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