Conficker Downloads Payload 273
nk497 writes "Conficker seems to finally be doing something, a week after hype around the worm peaked on April Fool's Day. It has now downloaded components from the Waledac botnet, which could contain rootkit capabilities. Trend Micro security expert Rik Ferguson said: 'These components have so far been missing, but could this finally be the "other boot dropping" that we have all been been waiting for?' Ferguson also suggested that people behind Conficker could be the very same who are running Waledac and created the Storm botnet. 'It tallies with some of the assumptions people have made about Conficker — that the first variant was actively trying to avoid the Ukraine because Waledac was Eastern European,' Ferguson added."
april fools (Score:5, Funny)
Eye chart (Score:5, Funny)
On a side note, that eye chart the Conflicker Group had up no longer works.
http://www.confickerworkinggroup.org/infection_test/cfeyechart.html [confickerw...ggroup.org]
Re:actual article (Score:3, Funny)
Holy shit, I'm going to hide under my desk now. Call me when it's all over.
Re:Blame Obama (Score:4, Funny)
for example...
If you look at the facts the conficker virus and waladac botnet are CLEARLY parts of a vast left wing conspiracy which is obviously fronted by obama because the democrats want to take as much of your processing power as they do your income
Re:Blame Obama (Score:3, Funny)
Re:actual article (Score:5, Funny)
also it looks like http://www.confickerworkinggroup.org/ [confickerw...ggroup.org] [confickerw...ggroup.org] is down
I can still get to it... you must be infected!
(Ok, ok, i'm just joking, it doesn't load for me either. It seemed a lot funnier when i first started typing it :P )
Ahhhhhh... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:april fools (Score:5, Funny)
That honestly would have rocked...
April 1 - 2009 Conflicker downloads and activates it evil payload. Computer screens all over the world go black with large red numbers counting down to....... something......
Do it like the many really bad computer hacker movies. That would simply be funny as hell. The raging panic from the easily panicked sheep, Fox news will report that Conflicker turns your computer into a bomb, etc....
THAT would be the coolest April fools joke ever.
Why the doom and gloom? (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Why the doom and gloom? (Score:3, Funny)
Remove the stone of geek!...Append the stone of evil genius!
Although if that does happen, expect a call from some well dressed men in a nice car, with blacked out windows, on Monday afternoon.
Re:Patch? (Score:3, Funny)
What is this sex of which you speak?
Re:Ahhhhhh... (Score:5, Funny)
The Mac Archipelago finds it amusing, too. *Cheers!*
Re:actual article (Score:2, Funny)
Re:actual article (Score:2, Funny)
Holy shit, I'm going to hide under my desk now. Call me when it's all over.
No Problem,
I'll email you an attachment that will explain what happened and why everything is ok.
Be sure to read it.
Oblig. (Score:1, Funny)
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1478#comic [smbc-comics.com]
Re:Eye chart (Score:5, Funny)
Works for me.
Re:Holidy Weekend. (Score:4, Funny)
like playing your starters against their backups.
Could you change that into a car analogy? Thanks!
Re:april fools? (Score:1, Funny)
Go cry.
Re:Holidy Weekend. (Score:5, Funny)
It's like showing up to a street race in a rickety-looking Ford Escort which secretly houses a small block V8 with nitrous.
It's like a porn star showing up to a naked pool party for men with erectile dysfunction.
It's like bringing a gun to a knife fight.
Re:Ahhhhhh... (Score:5, Funny)
Even though I'm joking, let the "Troll" modding begin.
Re:april fools? (Score:1, Funny)
Overworked Atheist Security Experts to the rescue?
The lack of religious holidays would likely foil most attempts to catch them with their pants down...
Re:Holidy Weekend. (Score:5, Funny)
like playing your starters against their backups.
Could you change that into a car analogy? Thanks!
It's like playing your things that you turn the key in that makes your engine go vroom!vroom! against their things that go Beeeeep Beeeeeep Beeeeep.
Re:Ahhhhhh... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:april fools (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Holidy Weekend. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ahhhhhh... (Score:1, Funny)
Super Photoshop?
Re:Ahhhhhh... (Score:4, Funny)
The Windows 7 testing delegation would like to tell the Linux Island group to kiss [LOST CARRIER]
Re:Potato Blight for computers (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Holidy Weekend. (Score:3, Funny)
Because, it'll hurt more?
Re:Ahhhhhh... (Score:5, Funny)
Don't forget the Linux games!
- Why Isn't My Wireless Working? (Fun for the whole family!)
- Write Your Own Driver
- rm -rf ~/* roulette
- The Uptime Game (See how long your server's up! Prizes for +100 day or 6 sigma uptimes!)
- Condescension (Make Windows users feel so bad about their OS they switch to *nix. Bonus points for Gentoo.)
Anyway, Linux has tons of games for the creative and inquiring mind.
Re:april fools (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:Holidy Weekend. (Score:5, Funny)
At my old apartment we had someone stealing gas on the peak of the market.
Since my truck is crap it was an easy target. They stole almost an entire 30 gallon tank full.
I found out who it was by disconnecting my fill spout from the tank (and piping a new fill spout from the tool box in the bed), and putting in a mini tank on the OEM filler. Filled it with about 3 gallons of nitromethane and 2 gallons of diesel. All of a sudden one day this (asshat) ricer had his engine almost explode. It was quite funny.
-nB
Re:Solution? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Ever have one of those moments... (Score:4, Funny)
That's actually one of the saddest thing I've read for a long time. I hope she never elopes with a Windows 7 install.