He he (new windows virus)

ryaxnbryaxnb
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
Okay. New Windows virus that could be similiar to MSBlast. Now you might be ready to put this one off as just the usual, but it uses Messenger Service. Now the only thing people use Messenger Service for, AFAIK, is basically sending spam. And now it's being used to carry a worm. Funny, eh? And still almost no one actually uses this thing for real purposes. Also, look on the right of the article (link coming up) and you'll see: "Windows more secure then Open Source." Yeah right. 5 ports open, MsBlast, SoBig and now this Messenger service worm. And for those who say it's because Windows is so popular, check http://www.xvsxp.com/log-in/ . Yes it's comparing to Mac OS X but that's what we're interested in right? Anyway Mac OS X is based on open source Darwin. Excuse me for my long rambling.

EDIT: Forget an important of the message: the link

I've taken down my IMHO because someone disagreed with it and frankly this ramble is long enough.

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  • Reply 1 of 8
    andersanders Posts: 6,523member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by ryaxnb

    And IMHO most of us at AI are happy about new Windows viruses, because it encourages people to switch to the Mac.



    Not a very bright thing to say. If I had any feelings about what systemother people are using I would not want them to use X because they hate Windows but because they love X. As long as my platform of choice has enough user to support the development I remain happy. I let Steve focus on marked share while i focus my energy in actually using their products.



    Beside during major attacks the net becomes unusable. So the attacks also affect me.
  • Reply 2 of 8
    toweltowel Posts: 1,479member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Anders

    Beside during major attacks the net becomes unusable. So the attacks also affect me.



    And they only encourage know-nothing lawmakers to pass more draconian "security" laws while helping prepare the public for "Secure Computing(tm)".



    I have to admit, though, that I get giggly when the radio DJ starts bitching on the air about how all of a sudden his PC browser opens up to a midget porn site and he can't change it back. [snicker snicker]
  • Reply 3 of 8
    ast3r3xast3r3x Posts: 5,012member
    Yeah although showing how a perk of small market share is less...well currently no viruses, it still sucks for everyone. I do have to wonder how secure OS X would seem if you have thousands of malicious programmers looking it over.



    On a movie about panther they had they were talking about filevault and they said how super computers would take 10 to the whatever years to break it. There is no way it is that secure is it?





    As for window messenger...it is a joke. Not only is it annoyingly annoying but if you shut it off, somehow eventually it comes back on.



    Also a good trick spammers to that manage to baffle people I've found is that they make the screen bigger then the window so you have to know to do alt-f4 to close it...or their task manager I guess would work too.
  • Reply 4 of 8
    stoostoo Posts: 1,490member
    Quote:

    On a movie about panther they had they were talking about filevault and they said how super computers would take 10 to the whatever years to break it. There is no way it is that secure is it?



    A brute force attack on a random password would take an impractically long time to break. However, most passwords aren't random: they're names, dates, words or other easily predicatable strings of text, giving a search space of a few hundred thousand entries, rather than roughly (size of alphabet) raised to the power (password length).
  • Reply 5 of 8
    dog almightydog almighty Posts: 464member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Anders

    Not a very bright thing to say. If I had any feelings about what systemother people are using I would not want them to use X because they hate Windows but because they love X. As long as my platform of choice has enough user to support the development I remain happy. I let Steve focus on marked share while i focus my energy in actually using their products.



    Beside during major attacks the net becomes unusable. So the attacks also affect me.



    It wouldn't be that they start using OS X as a lesser of two evils, but rather the incessant virus attacks would make them open to considering the alternative. Then they would use it, and be like "holy shit! Why didn't someone tell me about this?"



    Omar: "I did!"



    "Gah! I'm switching to Linux!"
  • Reply 6 of 8
    ryaxnbryaxnb Posts: 583member
    Uh, can you stop talking about my IMHO please? I've taken it down.
  • Reply 7 of 8
    dog almightydog almighty Posts: 464member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by ryaxnb

    Uh, can you stop talking about my IMHO please? I've taken it down.



    Bah, you shouldn't've.
  • Reply 8 of 8
    the cool gutthe cool gut Posts: 1,714member
    IMHO most of us at AI are happy about new Windows viruses, because it encourages people to question M$'s commitment to security, and consider migrating to a secure and more robust platform.
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