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Leroy Whetstone wrote:
> I have never seen a virus on a computer. Been lucky I guess :)
Lucky or just sensible. ;-)
My dad's PC seems to periodically become infected by... *something* or
other. Usually just trojans and browser hooks. I don't know what the
heck he does that I don't, but I've never had any similar problems...
> I was the local greek that every one who ask for help on their computers
> in our naborhood. Every time a new virus came out everyone thought they
> had it.
Ah yes, I've seen this so often. "Ooo, my computer is doing something
wierd. Is it a virus?"
Also, does it make you chuckle when you see those emails warning you
that "omgz, this nuu virus will eraz0rs your memory and make your
monitor expl0d3!!1!eleven"? ;-)
> One day I got an e-mail that said there is a virus
> name Such-n-Such(can remember) and if you have this exe file on your
> computer you need to delete it. Of course it was on my computer. NO!
> I didn't delete it. A little research showed that the file was very
> important to the operating system. Lucky none of our gang delete it.
Perhaps you refer to
http://www.f-secure.com/hoaxes/jdbgmgr.shtml
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Thats interesting. Very few people had access to the Internet outside of
universities, military, government and gov't contractors when the "Morris
Worm" struck. I believe I had Compuserve at the time and found the news very
interesting but remained utterly unaffected by it, the only actual Internet
access we Compuserve subscribers had at the time I think, was limited to
metered email. That was, what, 1987, 1988?
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Halbert wrote:
> That was, what, 1987, 1988?
Both of those, yes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_virus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm
Netscape used to be the security hole poster child, too, until Microsoft
took that distinction away from them. :-)
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kill zombies? Ask 100 random people in America how to kill someone
who has reanimated from the dead in a secret viral weapons lab,
and how many do you think already know you need a head-shot?
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Invisible wrote:
> Anybody else here have any interesting virus experiences?
Want a scary thought?
While remotely cleaning a friend's computer, I found a trojan that was using
two dozen different methods to start up on boot. The global and per-user
Run registry key, Start on the start menu, an ActiveX object that
initialized on boot, a shell extension loaded by explorer, and...
...it *changed the file association of .exe files*. Instead of running "%1",
it ran trojan.exe "%1". The trojan started the real program after doing its
nasty stuff, so the user didn't notice.
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> how the product decides whether a given item is on that list is
> another matter. (I really hope it isn't just by process image name...!)
Some crappy old firewalls actually compared process image name.
This tool pretends to be IE and attempts connecting to the 'net. If it
succeeds, and your firewall doesn't give any warning about it, it sucks.
http://www.grc.com/lt/leaktest.htm
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>> Anything interesting?
>
> Not particularly. It was actually rather poorly written iirc, used CDO,
> I believe to read the address book and propagate itself.
Heh. I can easily imagine a virus not being the aphex of coding
technology. ;-) I've seen a number of virus descriptions that talk about
broken payloads or things not working right...
Actually, I've occasionally thought about trying to *write* a virus,
just to see if I can do it... But that's illegal. And besides, I'm sure
Haskell isn't the best way to do it either. :-P
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Invisible wrote:
> Actually, I've occasionally thought about trying to *write* a virus,
> just to see if I can do it... But that's illegal. And besides, I'm sure
> Haskell isn't the best way to do it either. :-P
>
No, not illegal and not a bad learning experience. Propagating a virus
into the wild, though, is _definitely_ illegal.
John
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>> Actually, I've occasionally thought about trying to *write* a virus,
>> just to see if I can do it... But that's illegal. And besides, I'm
>> sure Haskell isn't the best way to do it either. :-P
>
> No, not illegal and not a bad learning experience. Propagating a virus
> into the wild, though, is _definitely_ illegal.
Sure. And owning a gun is illegal, but owning all of the components
necessary to assemble a gun isn't. But good luck explaining to the
people raiding your house why you have all these components. ;-)
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"Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] dev null> wrote in message
news:48975170$1@news.povray.org...
> My dad's PC seems to periodically become infected by... *something* or
> other. Usually just trojans and browser hooks. I don't know what the heck
> he does that I don't, but I've never had any similar problems...
I don't have problems now, (thankfully!) but I did on my original 98
machine, (which was then later changed to XP). (Which is STILL sat beside me
on the floor doing nothing!)
Anyway, I clicked on a virus email the other day to see what would
happen, and AVG kicked in big time (immediately) and quarantined it.
If you can't find me after this, please send a search party, I'm
~2&8*ds~ ;)
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