Microsoft Mail Worms Gang War?

Microsoft Mail Worms Gang War? 609

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday March 04, 2004 @03:34PM from the that-makes-sense dept.

cuzality writes "The media is now beginning to suggest that this recent onslaught of new viruses (with new versions of major-impact viruses being found daily) the result of a virus gang turf war, kinda like the India/Pakistan virus conflict, in which official Pakistani sites were savaged by such infamous groups as Indian Snakes and Indian Hackers Club. The gangs are shooting fast and loose: variations of the big ones are being discovered daily (as of March 4, we are up to MyDoom.H, Netsky.F, and Beagle.K), and in the space of three hours on Wednesday morning, five variants of these three were first discovered. Typically these viruses (or more correctly, worms) do little damage to the infected computer, intent mostly on spreading far and wide, and sometimes inflicting DoS on some poor evil empire."

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well... (Score:5, Funny)

by Savatte ( 111615 ) writes: on Thursday March 04, 2004 @03:36PM (#8466806) Homepage Journal

Since Microsoft is in Seattle, this could be a real West Side Story.

Won't be over soon, either (Score:5, Funny)

by Matey-O ( 518004 ) * writes: <michaeljohnmiller@mSPAMsSPAMnSPAM.com> on Thursday March 04, 2004 @03:36PM (#8466816) Homepage Journal

"Plenty of letters left in the alphabet" - J. L. Picard

Poor evil empire (Score:5, Funny)

by NetDanzr ( 619387 ) writes: on Thursday March 04, 2004 @03:38PM (#8466851)

"...intent mostly on spreading far and wide, and sometimes inflicting DoS on some poor evil empire."
Actually, the evil empire isn't all that poor; it's got several billion dollard in cash. And the poor wannabe empire isn't poor either; apparently it got a $86 million cash injection [slashdot.org], thanks to the evil empire.

Virus gangs (Score:5, Funny)

by Zangief ( 461457 ) writes: on Thursday March 04, 2004 @03:40PM (#8466879) Homepage Journal

...kinda like the India/Pakistan virus conflict, in which official Pakistani sites were savaged by such infamous groups as Indian Snakes and Indian Hackers Club...

Seems like virus writers also got oursourced to India!!

Re:How is this an "ask slashdot"? (Score:5, Funny)

by FrostedWheat ( 172733 ) writes: on Thursday March 04, 2004 @03:40PM (#8466884)

Where's the question?

Dunno, but the answer's 42.

Re:"some poor evil empire..." (Score:3, Funny)

by ackthpt ( 218170 ) * writes: on Thursday March 04, 2004 @03:41PM (#8466915) Homepage Journal

is getting gangbanged. sux.
Yeah, but they've been secretly building their own Deathstar, which is hidden behind the Moon, for years now. I'm not so worried about the Evil Empire using it as when it gets 0wn3d.

Re:"some poor evil empire..." (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday March 04, 2004 @03:42PM (#8466920)

SCO?

oh great (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday March 04, 2004 @03:43PM (#8466933)

all your computers are belong to us, no US, NO US, NONO US!!!

Re:Warnings... (Score:5, Funny)

by Dave2 Wickham ( 600202 ) * writes: on Thursday March 04, 2004 @03:44PM (#8466949) Journal

You mean like...

Dear user of "Co.uk" mailing system, We warn you about some attacks on your e-mail account. Your computer may contain viruses, in order to keep your computer and e-mail account safe, please, follow the instructions. Further details can be obtained from attached file. Cheers, The Co.uk team http://www.co.uk

?

Re:Turf? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday March 04, 2004 @03:44PM (#8466955)

Think of your WinBlows as your house with all doors locked, but with all Windows (too funny)opened. Pretty pointless and very tempting target.

I could not resists...

Your friendly non-WinBlows user.

Re:So move to a better neighborhood (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday March 04, 2004 @03:47PM (#8467003)

So you're saying I should move to Mars?

Re:latest breed (Score:5, Funny)

by leifm ( 641850 ) writes: on Thursday March 04, 2004 @03:47PM (#8467007)

Yeah we apparently got that. Seems a bit odd to me that a worm can propagate when you have to enter a key to run it, for god's sake that's like getting a grenade in the mail with a note saying 'Pull this pin and hold'.

Re:I would like to point out... (Score:5, Funny)

by tcd004 ( 134130 ) * writes: on Thursday March 04, 2004 @03:49PM (#8467049) Homepage

My god! Look what it did to my website! [lostbrain.com]

Tcd004

Re:latest breed (Score:4, Funny)

by gregarican ( 694358 ) writes: on Thursday March 04, 2004 @03:50PM (#8467066) Homepage

My company's mail server is running Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition. Although it couldn't scan the password-protected (hence encrypted) ZIP attachments of the latest Beagle variant it did report these failures as errors and quarrantined the attachments as a result. Thank God.
What's pitiful is how the AV service automatically updates its virus definitions daily. But at the rate these variants are coming out I am manually updating in the middle of the workday as well. I almost get misty eyed back when Microsoft-based threats were just relatively minor nuisances like Word macro viruses!

Re:well... (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday March 04, 2004 @03:52PM (#8467092)

get your singing voices ready... WORM:
"I like to propagate in America!
DoS by me in America!
Network is down in America
Download me in America!"

Evil empire? (Score:3, Funny)

by Facetious ( 710885 ) writes: on Thursday March 04, 2004 @03:53PM (#8467102) Journal

"...and sometimes inflicting DoS on some poor evil empire." Or in the case of sco.com, an evil feifdom.

Re:Viruses? (Score:5, Funny)

by Kaa ( 21510 ) writes: on Thursday March 04, 2004 @03:55PM (#8467144) Homepage

Imagine if e-mail was just plain old ASCII text with no attachment support. *sigh*

YOU HAVE NOW RECEIVED THE UNIX VIRUS

This virus works on the honor system:

If you're running a variant of unix or linux, please forward this message to everyone you know and delete a bunch of your files at random.

{sigh} Preview, preview (Score:2, Funny)

by ashitaka ( 27544 ) writes: on Thursday March 04, 2004 @03:59PM (#8467195) Homepage

s/Dop/Drop
s/nad/and

Re:Yeah, it's a gang war alright... (Score:3, Funny)

by danlor ( 309557 ) writes: on Thursday March 04, 2004 @04:00PM (#8467202) Homepage

Oh yea? I got you beat!

We had and emplyee actually gather a croud around her desk to watch her open it. They were all very disappointed to see that our virus filters had stripped it!

Re:well... (Score:4, Funny)

by Bjimba ( 31636 ) writes: on Thursday March 04, 2004 @04:00PM (#8467204) Homepage

When you're a 1337, you're a l33t all the way,
From your first kiddie script, till you r00t DEA

Re:How is this an "ask slashdot"? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday March 04, 2004 @04:05PM (#8467252)

here is the question: how lame do you have to be to base all you ego trips and eliteness on how many windows boxes you can infect? Its like a little kid bragging that they can count to twenty.

Re:well... (Score:3, Funny)

by krzysztof ( 684977 ) writes: on Thursday March 04, 2004 @04:07PM (#8467289)

MyDoom H
I've just got a worm named MyDoom H
And suddenly this game
Will never play the same for me.

MyDoom I
I just saw a worm named MyDoom I
And suddenly I see
A blue screen staring back at me!

MyDoom J!
I don't hear any mp3s playing
All is dark and I better start praying

MyDoom K,
I just got a worm named MyDoom K...

Re:Poor evil empire (Score:3, Funny)

by drinkypoo ( 153816 ) writes: <drink@hyperlogos.org> on Thursday March 04, 2004 @04:11PM (#8467323) Homepage Journal

Oracle makes more cash per dullard, but Microsoft has more dullards. Proof that volume is the answer.

Re:Yeah, it's a gang war alright... (Score:3, Funny)

by orthogonal ( 588627 ) writes: on Thursday March 04, 2004 @04:16PM (#8467405) Journal

One simple thing average users can do is to give people they communicate with some special keyword they should always add to messages they send you with an attachment. It doesn't have to be anything special - even a company name would d

I tried that but it didn't work for me.

Do you think I shouldn't have chosen the word "Pwned"?

Re:Puttin' it down (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday March 04, 2004 @04:18PM (#8467430)

l3rn 2 wr173 j00 +w4+

Re:Little damage? (Score:3, Funny)

by RickoniX ( 667001 ) writes: <RickoniX@Rickon[ ]com ['iX.' in gap]> on Thursday March 04, 2004 @04:21PM (#8467459) Homepage

Great, tell everyone my password why don't you

Re:Instead of a pissing contest (Score:2, Funny)

by Pastis ( 145655 ) writes: on Thursday March 04, 2004 @04:24PM (#8467509)

We should apply this comment to the slashdot crowd...

Nothing happened. Did I do something wrong? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday March 04, 2004 @04:24PM (#8467517)

I've gotten over a hundred copies of Beagle over the past week or so. I've opened several. They haven't done a damn thing. Obviously, Linux simply isn't capable of running the really popular Windows apps. ;-)

Re:Insightful? (Score:4, Funny)

by rsidd ( 6328 ) writes: on Thursday March 04, 2004 @04:29PM (#8467611)

Although this sentence is not a question, it ends in a question mark?

Can I ask you a question? (Score:5, Funny)

by Cumstien ( 637803 ) writes: on Thursday March 04, 2004 @04:30PM (#8467628)

A question, what is it?

It's an interrogative statement used to test knowledge, but that's not important right now.

Re:well... (Score:5, Funny)

by slaker ( 53818 ) writes: on Thursday March 04, 2004 @04:31PM (#8467668)

Dear kindly Peter Norton,
You gotta understand
It's just our hacker egos
That gets us outta hand.
Our friends are all spammers
Our teachers teach VB
Holy jebus that's why we are 'leet!

Offshoring stoppage? (Score:2, Funny)

by Tablizer ( 95088 ) writes: on Thursday March 04, 2004 @04:32PM (#8467681) Journal

Maybe this virus war will tie up all the developers in India and Pakistan who would otherwise take our jobs.

Re:I would like to point out... (Score:1, Funny)

by geek4ever ( 525253 ) writes: on Thursday March 04, 2004 @04:46PM (#8467883)

IT MADE YOU ADVERTISE $50 GIFT CARDS! OH MY GOD!

Re:I would like to point out... (Score:4, Funny)

by Mysticalfruit ( 533341 ) writes: on Thursday March 04, 2004 @04:52PM (#8467973) Homepage Journal

Here's a conspiracey theory for you...

Indian virus writers are writing virues to increase call volumes so more companies will outsource their anwering centers to India...

More likely some punk somewhere gets a charge off the idea that they alone can cause world wide mayhem...

Now the virii are fighting each other (Score:2, Funny)

by dtjohnson ( 102237 ) writes: on Thursday March 04, 2004 @05:03PM (#8468113)

Apparently, they didn't find Microsoft enough of a challenge.

Re:Insightful? (Score:3, Funny)

by Ed Avis ( 5917 ) writes: <ed@membled.com> on Thursday March 04, 2004 @05:03PM (#8468121) Homepage

Obligatory Futurama quotation:

Fry: I'm good at video games and bad at everything else. That's why I wish life were more like a video game.

Farnsworth: Can you put that in the form of a question?

Fry: Uh, what if that thing I said?

Re:Warnings... (Score:3, Funny)

by DonGar ( 204570 ) writes: on Thursday March 04, 2004 @05:51PM (#8468902) Homepage

I'm part owner and the system admin for a 3 person company. I find it somewhat surreal to get email from 'staff@bgb.cc' when I AM the tech staff for BGB.

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well... (Score:5, Funny)

Won't be over soon, either (Score:5, Funny)

Poor evil empire (Score:5, Funny)

Virus gangs (Score:5, Funny)

Re:How is this an "ask slashdot"? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:"some poor evil empire..." (Score:3, Funny)

Re:"some poor evil empire..." (Score:1, Funny)

oh great (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Warnings... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Turf? (Score:1, Funny)

Re:So move to a better neighborhood (Score:1, Funny)

Re:latest breed (Score:5, Funny)

Re:I would like to point out... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:latest breed (Score:4, Funny)

Re:well... (Score:4, Funny)

Evil empire? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Viruses? (Score:5, Funny)

{sigh} Preview, preview (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Yeah, it's a gang war alright... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:well... (Score:4, Funny)

Re:How is this an "ask slashdot"? (Score:1, Funny)

Re:well... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Poor evil empire (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Yeah, it's a gang war alright... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Puttin' it down (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Little damage? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Instead of a pissing contest (Score:2, Funny)

Nothing happened. Did I do something wrong? (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Insightful? (Score:4, Funny)

Can I ask you a question? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:well... (Score:5, Funny)

Offshoring stoppage? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:I would like to point out... (Score:1, Funny)

Re:I would like to point out... (Score:4, Funny)

Now the virii are fighting each other (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Insightful? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Warnings... (Score:3, Funny)

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