Peeping Tom Worm That Uses Webcams 388
Ant writes "The Register mentions a new Windows worm known as Rbot-GR that is currently circulating accross the net. It has the capability to spy on users using webcams. " I'm surprised that it took this long.
Appropriate quote... (Score:5, Funny)
Kent: It is God!
Real Genius
Ewww.... (Score:5, Funny)
Spy on Nerds?! (Score:5, Funny)
Now, if you could get your ex-girlfriend (or boyfriend, whatever) to install the trojan...
In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. (Score:4, Funny)
That's what I saw when I first clicked on the link to "Read More" for the
heh (Score:4, Funny)
On second thoughts, no.. let's not even go there. *shudder*
I'm still waitng for... (Score:4, Funny)
I'm still waiting for the virus to be made that replaced the users background with the goatse.cx (or goat.cx, nowadays) man.
Oh boy a bunch of hairy half naked geeks! (Score:1, Funny)
Not the Web Cam!?!? (Score:4, Funny)
Cue American Pie (Score:4, Funny)
I whole heartedly agree.
X10 cameras anyone? (Score:3, Funny)
Methinks that some bored kid got tired of all the webcam pron sites out there and went out to make his own "real" digital version of a voyeur binoculars
Whew! (Score:5, Funny)
Makes me think of this pic (Score:5, Funny)
Re:coooolll (Score:2, Funny)
I knew WIndows had bad security... (Score:5, Funny)
Just put up a sign (Score:5, Funny)
WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE. WE ARE CALLING YOUR PARENTS.
Sure, you never find out what happens, but it might be fun.
Re:Ewww.... (Score:3, Funny)
Wow... (Score:5, Funny)
I'd like to know the guy (I assume it's a guy) that made this virus. "Woo, I just got this idea -- if I write a virus to see other users, I might see pr0n!"
Hmm, on second though I'm not sure I'd like to know him.
Re:In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
Unless you're counting solo flights. Then I would suggest you remove "focus" and "resolution" from your post.
Re:Really (Score:5, Funny)
Old news. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Nothing (Score:5, Funny)
Re:In other news... (Score:1, Funny)
Lowest Price on Webcams? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Spy on Nerds?! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Spy on Nerds?! (Score:5, Funny)
I'm going to karma hell now
Surpised? (Score:5, Funny)
C'mon, what are you expecting to see, really? People making out infront of their cameras? Ha!
More likely:
Some drone plodding away at a spreadsheet
A gamer wondering why his framerate just dropped 10% on d00m 3
George W. Bush picking his nose and rolling it into a little ball
A guy with a big beard and mustache, wearing a bedsheet over his head, two-finger typing instructions to a cell to get him early tickets to Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, before staging this next deadly attack.
CowboyNeal with food stains all down his tshirt (ecch!)
J. K. Rowling gnawing on the pencil while deciding how the next character dies in Harry Potter. 'Zapped .. eaten .. hmmmm...'
A couple of norwegian guys with a couple paintings propped against the wall behind them.
A Slashdot moderator about to zap this post -- 'Worst post ever!'
William Shatner writing lots of kissing and strutting scenes into his appearance in Enterprise and removing that bit where he's required to act without his toupee on.
An ILM designer creating the next 'Jar Jar' character -- 'No, make it look more like Hello Kitty...
Honestly, voyeurism is this desperate?
Re:Where Do I Look Up the Infected? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:In other news... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Spy on Nerds?! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:In other news... (Score:4, Funny)
I'm the only one?
Re:I'm still waitng for... (Score:3, Funny)
A friend of mine would use that and mess with people (only those who assumed he was a female and hit on him over icq - and would then accept his "self-extracting jpeg"). It had a mode where you could force an image to block everything else on the screen until a reboot. He'd wait until whoever was on the computer left and plaster the goatse.cx guy up on the screen. Good times.
"I'm suprised that it took this long" (Score:2, Funny)
Look on the positive side (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Spy on Nerds?! (Score:5, Funny)
OMG.... I think this confirms that Linus's "affection" for penguins goes a bit too far to be healthy.
Re:Spy on Nerds?! (Score:4, Funny)
... the same way I like me jeans: baggy.
::sniff::
Re:Never mind the worm (Score:2, Funny)
unbreakable defence vs being observed by webcams.. (Score:2, Funny)
The consensus for the best defence was rather than running complex firewall and host-based protection software, turn the camera to face the wall.
It is currently unbroken and no hacker has yet to figure out a way get past this.*
Personally I think my own defence is even better, I don't own/use a webcam.
* - This defense looses viability if you have a computer controlled webcam mount.
Re:coooolll (Score:3, Funny)
He then told us it was his "ButtCam", and that he was going to the bathroom, which was right next door. Obviously, it was a bluff, but it got the desired "ew!"s from the audience.
Re:Really (Score:1, Funny)
Glad we finally cleared that one up,
cheers, RMS
Re:Spy on Nerds?! (Score:5, Funny)
Get a copy and find where the media is going... (Score:4, Funny)
I'm all about pictures of 15-yo gamers picking their nose in front of Doom3. I'd laugh my ******* *** off.
Re:Ewww.... (Score:5, Funny)
Where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents... and they're MEN!
Re:Spy on Nerds?! (Score:1, Funny)
Easy enough. Buy the regular-sized ones.
Re:Ewww.... (Score:5, Funny)
Where can I get said worm and what are the IPs of the seven sisters colleges?
Re:I'm still waitng for... (Score:5, Funny)
just for fun... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I'm still waitng for... (Score:5, Funny)
Solution (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ewww.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Spy on Nerds?! (Score:3, Funny)
If this worm figures how to use (Score:5, Funny)
Reminds me of (Score:5, Funny)
I remember doing something similar to my friends with an ICQ spoof program, my favorite went something like from UIN(666): "This is Satan, sell me you soul.", UIN(333): "This is God, don't listen to Satan.", UIN(1): "This is your mother, don't listen to either of them." It was even better if they tried to add the new UINs to their contact list and they all came back invalid. (The minimum is something like 1001)
identity theft? (Score:4, Funny)
I know you're kidding, but considering more than half of internet users in the US are always on broadband users and the number of webcams sold/bundled with PCs and you've got yourself quite a number of people to spy on.
Or they might just send wacky pop-ups to solicit expressions like the one this guy is sporting. [min.net]
s'easy (Score:5, Funny)
Re: appropriate quote... (Score:3, Funny)
Peeping Tom? No Problem.... (Score:5, Funny)
Scatter a bunch of fake corpses around your room. Splatter a little fake blood and gibs around for good measure, and then put a radial arm saw and sausage grinder off in a corner.
If you suspect the cam is active, throw on a bloody goalie mask and say into the camera... "I know where you live...."
Hold on, researching..... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I'm still waitng for... (Score:5, Funny)
*open cd-rom tray*
"Please insert dick"
He went offline and never came back...
Re:Spy on Nerds?! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Ewww.... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Bye bye PlanetSuzy :-) (Score:4, Funny)
BO (Score:5, Funny)
so, he does what he does....anticipation......
AAAK, ME EYES!
It was some old lady shuffling around in her bathrobe! Mrs. Lubner deluxe!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
Re:Appropriate quote... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Old news? Here? Shocking! (Score:4, Funny)
Just the same, the mic and the speaker were really nifty. I was working on homework one night at around 2am, and noticed that a buddy was logged in on console in a lab of 15-20 sparcs. I checked the other machines, and he was the only one (logged in) in the lab, so I hacked out a quick shell script to rsh to each host and cat
A few minutes later, he wasn't logged in anymore.
Re:Spy on Nerds?! (Score:2, Funny)
<judge> i hereby sentence you to six months of socialization and verbal communication with people. good luck.
<geek> *cries*
Funny (Score:2, Funny)