Comments on: Theory on new computer virus; Conficker

By: prohos

prohos — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 11:38:27 +0000

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By: Vinoth

Vinoth — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:16:36 +0000

Actually NMAP have a feature to detect conficker infected PC

By: HeySteeve

HeySteeve — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:56:23 +0000

Maybe I’m paranoid but a few things don’t add up for this to be a prank, if it was just a group of bored and malicious programmers, I doubt British Governments would announce that they had hacked into their systems, if I found out my lil pet had done that I’d suck as much info out as possible and I’m sure any one else with their head on straight in the UK would realize this as well. I would only announce something like that if all the damage that could be done, had been.
that being the case, as far as i know windows and pc are the prefered OS for most people including the government, if a virus could truely access any and all computers connected to the web, it could enter missle controls, global communications, and various other important pieces of strategic significance, and cause a complete shut down. in which cause any infiltration, attack or theft could be pulled off at a known date, April 1st.

Maybe I’m being paranoid, but it was something that occurred to me

By: Kirkhart

Kirkhart — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:53:45 +0000

Microsoft is offering a quarter million dollar bounty for whoever’s responsible for this. This theory seems silly to me. Not only because of this, but because the more people that get viruses, the less credible their security system appears.

There are a number of computers running pirated copys of Windows that will be infected, but the infection has spread to many casual users who do not fully understand maintainance and security. If this outbreak is seriously damaging, it will make the Windows security system appear even less credible in the eyes of these users.

The last thing Microsoft wants is Apple having even more to use in their agressive, “anti PC” advertising capmaign.

By: Rudy

Rudy — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:45:44 +0000

Two wrongs don’t make a right. Microsoft would be punishable in most countries if they did this.

By: Sjeltur

Sjeltur — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:48:53 +0000

True – some make great bucks with this.
They are almost an OS within an OS.

But part of this “discussion” could be;
at the moment you are using an illegal OS – you “deserve” to get infected by these viruses – worms – trojans.

By: Rarst

Rarst — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:36:59 +0000

Ehm… Microsoft is not in a business of malware spreading. But there are plenty who are.

These things are no longer after specific goal, they are simply delivery platform. Get your backdoor on enough of PCs and you can make nice money by selling service of spreading trojans for others.