What is Digg?Sponsored by Dragon Age: Origins
Join the Dragon Age: Origins development team on Facebook view!
facebook.com/DragonAgeOrigins - EA presents BioWare's new dark fantasy epic Dragon Age: Origins. '9/10' from Game Informer.
38 Comments
- inactive, on 09/13/2009, -0/+19Seems like nothing came of Conficker.
- inactive, on 04/03/2009, -0/+18nmap is seriously one of the best pieces of network software ever.
- Hellman109, on 04/03/2009, -0/+14Its currently just waiting for the next set of instructions.
Those instructions could do anything, uninstall itself, wipe your PC, send you chuck norris jokes, etc. - CalcProgrammer1, on 04/03/2009, -7/+15So...write a Linux program that runs on Linux machines to remotely check Windows machines for a virus?
- aAnaRchY, on 04/03/2009, -0/+8Inaccurate. There is a macOSX version too.
- havocjaw, on 04/03/2009, -0/+8Calc.... you sound very confused. Are you also surprised that a lot of Servers that your PC connects to are running Linux?
- lear, on 04/02/2009, -1/+8should we scan anyway just to make sure? i don't like the idea of dormant viruses that can be remote controlled.
- thecheatah, on 04/03/2009, -0/+6linux is a tool...your point?
- voteme4pope, on 04/03/2009, -0/+5I do not think anti viruses programs can be trusted any-more with encrypted viruses which do everything in memory. You should be fine with just patching and a good firewall or better still a hardware barrier like a router.
- Virgule, on 04/03/2009, -0/+5This is the quickest and easiest way to find out if you are infected: http://www.joestewart.org/cfeyechart.html
- XopherMV, on 04/03/2009, -1/+5The compile-time Nmap ASCII dragon is now more ferocious thanks to better teeth alignment?
- Tddupre, on 04/03/2009, -1/+5that's what you think
- inactive, on 09/13/2009, -1/+5Always keep your AV and windows updated.
- ementalo, on 04/03/2009, -0/+4There is a windows version too http://nmap.org/download.html
- FastZ, on 04/03/2009, -0/+4Now that's a dumb question.
- mrBitch, on 04/03/2009, -1/+5I think what he meant was that he would scan the Windows documents on his Mac to check if they were infected, so as not to pass the worm on to other Windows based PCs.
Mac OSX can still be a CARRIER, it just can't be infected by Windows based worms and viruses. - mrBitch, on 04/03/2009, -0/+4Well, I had not thought of that possibility, until NOW.
- Spoomeister, on 04/03/2009, -1/+4...yet.
- FastZ, on 04/03/2009, -0/+3Nothing was supposed to come from it, just updates to its code. I don't know why everyone kept thinking it was supposed to blow up the internets this past Wednesday. Who told them that?
It'll be used for something soon though I'm sure. - infiniphunk, on 04/03/2009, -0/+2Yah works like a charm. I've already found a few positives on Shaw's cable network using this new version of Nmap.
- MuadDave, on 04/03/2009, -1/+3The version of nmap pointed to in the article is already outdated - they've made improvements to the conficker detection script in the BETA7 version available at nmap.org.
- anshuman, on 04/03/2009, -0/+2ya, I got OSx86 on my msiwind and HP laptop too. Feels nice :)
- ThantiK, on 04/04/2009, -0/+2Yay, they might as well just named this flag the --user=idiot flag. All nearly anyone has to do is scan nmap for downadup, it shows you "HEY, I'M PROBABLY FULL OF BACKDOORS"...
But then again...that's usually what I read when the OS scan reads "Windows" - Spoomeister, on 04/03/2009, -2/+4Wouldn't it be something if the sole purpose of this worm was to tie up the attention and resources of some of the leading anti-virus companies, developers and security experts... so that a completely different worm would be more likely to be run undetected, on a completely different set of machines, on a slightly different date?
- pp7k, on 04/03/2009, -0/+2AV programs are a complete waste of money. They rarely stop an infection, rarely detect infections and even if they do it's rare that they can fix the system & completely remove any virus. Kind of like buying that expensive aftermarket warranty for a used car - makes you feel safe until something happens, then you find out nothing is really covered. In fact, more often than not I find that the AV software itself becomes the problem when it takes over the systems and inserts itself into everything.
I have never run AV software of any kind and in 12 years of broadband access I have never had a problem. Windows firewall + hardware firewall is all you need. Yes, that's right, buy a router, even if you don't need one. $40 is all you need to spend on security, ever.
Also beware that when the computer repair shop can't be bothered to figure out what's really wrong with your computer, it's easy to just re-install and tell you it was a virus. People don't want to hear that "sometimes computers just ***** up no apparent reason" and will believe anything the guy at the computer store tells them uncritically. - whytey, on 04/03/2009, -1/+2shhhhhh
- amabaie, on 04/03/2009, -0/+1Sometimes the best strategy is to just hold one's breath. I did. Oh, and I also backed up my entire hard drive on March 31.
- JohnnySoftware, on 04/21/2009, -0/+1Very unlikely Conficker was simply created as a "distraction" from something else because it is completely unnecessary.
There are already too many malware out now for anyone to count. I have not even heard a current overall infection percentage for the PC population yet.
When by themselves single malware programs infect over tens of millions of computers and there are over a million different pieces of malware, you know the infection rate is quite, quite high.
What you are saying akin to someone saying a mishap at the barbecue grill in the backyard was a distraction to allow an arsonist to set a fire in the bathroom of a house where a five alarm fire was already blazing - and the fire department was already struggling in vain to save the structure.
The Conficker program was linked to existing network of web/internet criminals. Hopefully, their identities will be uncovered and they will be prosecuted but do not expect that to bring you any protection in the meantime or afterwords. - Macintoshreader, on 04/03/2009, -1/+2Good thing I have a Mac. But still, I'll scan mine so that I don't send the virus to any of my contacts.
- zemkacz, on 04/03/2009, -1/+2idk what to even say or how to respond to that
- mrBitch, on 04/05/2009, -0/+1Did you address the OSX install drivers and the wireless card issues on the MSI Wind ?
- Virgule, on 04/03/2009, -0/+1Loading this page is all you need to do to figure out if you are infected or not:
http://www.joestewart.org/cfeyechart.html - king_aaronj, on 04/03/2009, -0/+1Great little check, thanks! :)
- Ladadadada, on 04/04/2009, -1/+2Are you aware of what nmap is and what it does ?
It is not a tool for detecting viruses and it never has been. nmap is a portmapping and network scanning tool. It is used to find hosts on a network, to find out what ports those hosts have open and to find out what services are running on those ports.
In the example they give on the site they are only scanning ports 139 and 445 which are NetBIOS and Directory Services. Because both of these services are dangerous to expose to the internet, I would suggest that anyone who has these ports open is highly likely to be infected with something, probably many things.
This is not a tool for finding a virus on your system. It is a tool for finding hosts on a network that may be infected so you can laugh at them. If your network consists of one computer, stick to normal anti-virus tools. - JohnnySoftware, on 04/21/2009, -0/+1Simply running the OS and AV updater is not enough!
None of the commercial anti-virus software caught the Sony rootkit trojan circa 2004-2005. Instead, they all let it quietly infect over ten million systems for over a year. Systems that merely played an audio CD.
Also, if you checked first before suggesting you would find out that Windows Update did not automatically remove the autoplay/autorun problems from Windows XP that allowed Conficker to get a toehold - and take over so many machines via their thumb drives, even months after Conficker came out and was recognized.
To get that patched, one would have to pay more money and perhaps buy a new computer - to get MS-Windows Vista, which is about to be obsoleted by Windows 7 - which makes it an ill-timed expenditure. Or else to some tedious study of Microsoft's support site with help of other web sites, find the right *separate* patch, manually download it from Microsoft's site, and manually execute it.
Listen to Steve Gibson's Security Now podcast and read Brian Kreb's Secrutiy Fix blog. You will get a lot more facts than you probably have now. That will allow you to easily draw a much more larger, detailed picture than you possibly could by just reading ads, marketing literature, and hype. And then, my friend - you will draw different conclusions.
Those two guys are basically not selling a product or defending one.
They are both more on the users' side of the fence than the vendors'. There is enough common ground for their stance to not at all be an us-vs-them kind of thing. They report outbreaks, flaws, and so forth - and gradually, you get a broader perspective.
You want to get your info from a used car salesman or from two professionals? Up to you. - imwebaddict, on 04/09/2009, -0/+0Easy method posted here :
http://digg.com/security/How_to_detect_remove_W32_ ...
http://www.webaddict.info - dindia, on 04/03/2009, -0/+0That's a good "user" strategy, but I would argue that it's nowhere close to "the best strategy".
My personal systems were patched back in October. Current anti-virus definitions were also present to identify any infections that may have happened. On March 31st, I decided to run the McAfee stinger tool, just in case.
Oh, and my hard drives got backed up automatically, as they do every night. - voteme4pope, on 04/03/2009, -2/+2How would you contact the infected ? where you going to get that much bandwidth ? .. only way would be botnet which would not be very logic.
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is