Top Viruses, Worms and Malware in 2006 74
An anonymous reader writes "HNS is running an article with a list of those malicious codes which, although they may not have caused serious epidemics, stood out in one way or another. Some of the categories are: the biggest snooper, the most moralistic, the worst job applicant and the most tenacious. From the article: 'The most competitive. Once the Popuper spyware has installed itself on a computer, it runs a pirate version of a well-known antivirus application. Far from trying to do the user a favour, it is actually trying to eliminate any possible rival from the computer. It seems that the fight for supremacy has also reached the world of Internet threats.'"
The worst worm and job applicant - Todd Shriber? (Score:1, Funny)
Great year for malware... (Score:5, Funny)
Direct Revenue hiding its core
one lone
launching executables from Group Policy subkeys;
populating subkeys of Winolgon\Notify with self-renaming
Hiding malware so it launches before Explorer (and even before the antivirus app) is sneaky, underhanded, and ensures a steady stream of income so I don't need to get an actual job. Editing the Registry hives from WinPE is the only cost-effective way to remove many of these things, and Suzy Homeuser wull never be ready for that.
So here's to you, scumbag malware writers... and here's to Microsoft for leaving soooo many ways to launch your malware: Thanks for paying my mortgage. Without security holes, and the slimeballs who exploit them, I'd be back selling auto parts.
Archaic! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Good News! (Score:3, Funny)
That's all I got so far.
What the world needs (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Archaic! (Score:2, Funny)
I worked at a chain of auto parts stores, with only five Windows machines. The marketing guy was constantly catching the Zombie virus from his drawer full of floppies.
After about the 5th or 6th time, I took all the floppy disks out of his desk and smashed them with a ballpeen hammer.
Re:WGA (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Archaic! (Score:2, Funny)
Classic Help Desk story... (Score:2, Funny)
When I was the alpha geek on a four-geek Help Desk, we had to ask each caller for the computer name (we later used bginfo for that). We would ring a bell every time we got the answer "Dell," then patiently explain that the computer is a Dell, but the computer has a name on the network, and we need to figure out what that is...
one woman interrupted me: "Trinitron?"
I slapped the mute switch just in time, and ROTFLMAO.