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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Ripsnort on November 10, 2004, 10:16:18 AM
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Wife has got an inbox full of these at her work.
New Internet Worm Breaks Discovery Speed Record
AMSTERDAM (Nov. 9) - A new computer worm emerged on Tuesday which broke the speed record from the announcement of a security vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer to a full-blown virus that spreads in the wild.
The vulnerability was discovered and made public by two hackers with aliases ''ned'' and ''SkyLined'' on Friday, and only four days later a worm exploiting the weakness was developed and set loose, several virus-trackers reported.
Microsoft said the worm is a variant of MyDoom and that it was investigating the threat the worm poses.
Some anti-virus companies said the new worm was different from MyDoom because it spreads via weblinks and not e-mail attachments.
''People will receive an e-mail saying that their PayPal account has been credited or that they are invited to watch a webcam. When they click on the link, just by viewing a site it executes code and infects the computer,'' said technical consultant Graham Cluley at Sophos Anti-Virus.
Microsoft was expected to issue its monthly batch of security patches later on Tuesday, but the company could not immediately say if a patch for the new worm would be part of it.
However, the software giant said that consumers who had installed Service Pack 2 for Windows XP were at a reduced risk.
The weakness in Internet Explorer is known as the IFRAME buffer overflow vulnerability.
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Whoa. Got one of those the other day. Deleted it without looking, fortunately.
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Microsoft was expected to issue its monthly batch of security patches later on Tuesday...
:rolleyes:
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I downloaded Firefox yesterday. MicroSoft can go pound sand.
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hackers that make viruses should be excuted.
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I primarily use Firefox, now. Anyone know if Firefox is vulnerable?
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Is there any disadvantage to using Firefox?
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Havnt found any yet...
FireFox is becoming the hottest thing since sliced white bread.
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Which means it's days are numbered.
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IF Microsoft doesn't release it's source .. they will fall behind eventually...
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Just got a question that this brought up. Why can't these hackers do something helpful like take out the computer nets for aljazira and other tools that the terrorists use?
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Originally posted by Maverick
Just got a question that this brought up. Why can't these hackers do something helpful like take out the computer nets for aljazira and other tools that the terrorists use?
do you honestly think your government doesn't do that?
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you have ANY information saying they do other than an off the wall opinion? Since they are still operating it seems no one is working on them.
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<--- loves worm and virus writers.... sells mah more firewalls :D
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Originally posted by Nash
Is there any disadvantage to using Firefox?
Havent found any either. and there are all sorts of plugins you cant get to enhance it to the way you want it.
Give it a shot. Its free and if you dont like it you can always go back
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ (http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/)
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Originally posted by soda72
IF Microsoft doesn't release it's source .. they will fall behind eventually...
they are already falling behind LOL
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Originally posted by Vulcan
<--- loves worm and virus writers.... sells mah more firewalls :D
Which is why. Be I right or wrong I have long suspected some of the people writing some of these things are somehow connected to the very people developing software to stop it.
Who stands the most to gain with these things in existance?
Would it be in the best interests of the firewall/anti virus developers for these things to go away?
Like Jessie Jackson.
Soon as the problem goes away they are out of a job.
And considering the corperate scandals and other underhanded dealings that keep getting exposed.
I would hardly put it past them
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I use the latest antivirus/firewall products from http://www.trendmicro.com and never have an ounce of trouble. I get notified of lots of hacking attempts though.
Speaking of emails from Paypal, there's another scam the hackers are trying. And that is to send an email purporting to come from eBay or PayPal, informing you that you must visit a certain site to revalidate your account details. Tomato got one of these mails (the eBay version), and eBay confirmed that it IS a hoax. I can only guess that the hackers are doing the same thing with Paypal.
These attempts are known as "phishing"! One telltale sign is that the email comes addressed anonymously to "Dear Customer" instead of addressing you by name. Delete these emails!
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
I R paranoid
Nah, I've met firewall developers, they don't need to. They're to busy getting the defences organised, plus they don't have the resources to research MS bugs, plus the legal implications are far far to dangerous.
Beetle: if phishing scams are getting through then you still aren't using the right stuff ;) I prefer mcafee corporate products for antivirus, but the Netscreen firewalls we do use Trend Micro so it provides a nice diversity between gateway and desktop.
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Originally posted by Vulcan
Beetle: if phishing scams are getting through then you still aren't using the right stuff
No, it's OK. I forgot to mention that the "ebay" phishing scam mail was rooted to my Yahoo bulk mail folder - out of harm's way. I only noticed it when doing a clear out.