So where do worms come from then? If I don't have to do anything how does it infect my computer? What about Trojans?
all three things can be defended against by taking a couple of measures... dont open attachments in your email unless you know for sure what they are..and even if they come from someone you know...make sure your AV is set to scan all your email.. worms can be defended against simply by running a good software firewall or being behind a hardware firewall. trojans are tougher to defend against...if you actively use P2P or IRC..it gets even tougher. always keep your AV definitions updated(once a week or more) and be very very careful about what programs or files you open from unknown sources. Pun, worms are unleashed by their creators and move around ion their own, they depend on your computer having open ports for them to access, that is why you must use a firewall. trojans are something that you bring in...they can be left on your machine by worms or by people accessing you machine if left unprotected. The single biggest method of trojan infection is by activating programs or opening files that you have downloaded.
unfortunetly, they can only detect things that the AV companies are already aware of. that means that if you get one within the first day of release..or before you update with new definitions that have the viruses signature added...they dont do any good.. Hueristic scanning may catch some that are similar to past virii/trojans/worms, but it is a hit or miss method at best.
I got a pop up that scared the **** out of me. The only way to get rid of it was to click it. It said my computer was going to shut down in 50 seconds 55 seconds. Load of crap. It sent me to some website called discountbob, and it wanted to me buy some anti virus crap. Which was absolute crap. i just alt ctrl del and removed it from the task bar.
Hey guys, I've got a question. My mom's husband kept bugging me to fix his computer and that he had this worm. He described the symptoms as the computer having a message popup and then restart a few seconds later... Maybe I was just lucky, but all I did was turn on the computer, download the microsoft patch, and I haven't had any problems. If you are able to install the patch, should you be okay? He also keeps bugging me that someone told him if he doesn't remove the virus by a certain day that its giong to erase his hard drive or some bull crap like that. It sounds like a load of hogwash that someone who had just heard the same thing from someone else told him. Is there any truth to this? Thanks.
The infection (worm) still needs to be removed. the instructions are at one of the links futher back in the thread. It will not reformat the drive, it is supposed to institute a DDoS attack against windowsupdate.com at a certain time today or tomorrow( i dont remember exactly when). basically, all infected computers will start sending service requests to the microsoft site at the same time, therefore knocking it offline since it wont be able to handle all the requests at the same time. it is nothing more than that.
It looks like some of my friends got hit by this. I'm probably going to have to help them fix their computers, despite the fact I'm not very good at this. I keep my stuff updated so I DON'T have to fix my computer. I leave that up for my dad to do, but he seems like he may be to busy to help. I just gave my friend a print out of an email my internet provider gave us on how to fix it, but if it doesn't work, or he doesn't get it, I'll probably have to read into this stuff and help him out. I think they want to play Counter-Strike ASAP. BTW, don't be surprised if I start asking questions soon in this thread.
Hey y'all, a friend of mine got this worm on her computer and I am going to try to help her remove it. We haven't done anything yet because I don't want to mess anything up on her computer. I have seen several suggestions for fixing it in this thread. I am wanting to try this one since someone on the BBS has already had success with it. .1. Go to control panel 2. Administrative tools 3. Services 4. Go down and double click Remote Procedure Call 5. go to recovery, third tab. 6. Change all the failure to just ignore instead of restarting computer. Then get online and click on Sonny's link. It only takes a few minutes. As soon as you're done (I think this is the key), go back and change all the failure back to restart. Then restart your computer just to be safe. Then I read the link posted by Rip Van Rocket that says not to mess with the stuff listed above. I am currently leaning toward this as a solution to the worm. So what suggestions do you guys have? I have already suggested to my friend that she install the XP patch and purchase firewall protection after the worm is removed. Thanks for any information.
There is a new virus getting loose. http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM_SOBIG.F
I never open email from someone I don't know, much less an attachment. If this one uses an address from your address book, that could change everything. This time I'll take heed, Sonny. unlike last time
We block .PIF and .SCR attachments so we have seen no problems, but I've gotten probably 25 emails from people were they were trying to send the virus, but we stripped out the attachment.
The funniest one I saw... ok, maybe not so funny, is the "Welchia" worm that started making its round last week. This worm tries to undo what the Blaster worm did and fix the havoc it wreaked by downloading a patch from Microsoft and updating your machine. So it's a good worm in that sense. But in reality any worm is probably a bad one. It's a mad, mad world...
My dad told me about that yesterday. Really confused me since I have never heard of a good worm, virus, trojan, etc. He said it fixed the blaster worm, and I was waiting for him to say that it downloads p*rn and shuts off half your hard drive or something like that. Hmm...I don't know why, but now hacking seems to have a light and dark side to me. Good hackers will always beat the bad ones!
there has always been two sides to the equation. the white-hat "hackers" that try to find security flaws and make them known so that the companies can fix them. and the black-hat hackers who try to find security weaknesses and screw things up. alot of times, the "black-hat" guys will go to the other side after they get busted or they growup.
Yeah, I knew about that. I hear about several super hackers that quit and started helping the government and stuff, but I don't hear much about people making worms, and other things that goes around fixing what an "evil" hacker did.
