NEW VIRUS

[Battl3man]

One of my friend today told me that there is a major virus going around tomorrow that will just hack your computer,he told me it was made in Russia,this is no joke,run a virus scan,its said that it will happen if your on the internet.

[lambson804]

The virus has been out for about a month or so already... The timer on it is set to go off tomorrow.. This virus is apparently the most sophisticated virus that's been created so far (getting into some VERY secure networks). The gov't has been trying to crack the coding for just about a month and they haven't got very far (there's no payload to the virus yet, so they don't know what it's going to do)


Edit: only Windows machines will be affected by it (go figure..)

[linkmelee1993]

Oh boy. Yah, my dad actually sent me a message about it yesterday, didn't read till today... Sounds bad.

PEAS AND RICE WILL NO ONE JUST BEHAVE ON THE INTERNET AND NOT TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD WITH THEIR SUPREME "HAXXOR SKEELZ!"??????

WHYYYY?????

[Darkness]

I've heard about it, but I didnt think it was really that big a deal. Do you have some proof to back up your claim that even the government cant crack it or other proof that it is the most sophisticated virus yet?

[SlainPwner666]

It's called the conficker worm. It gets inside your comp and wipes your hard drive. Microsoft has a free system scan on their main website. I would recommend getting scanned

[Darkness]

and wipes your hard drive
It does not, check the wikipedia article on conficker. Maybe the end of the world comes sooner then we think. Many other nations major security and defense systems have been infected. As well as millions of others. No one really knows what this is going to do. We will find out tomorrow.

[LordBhorak]

Taken from Wikipedia:

Removal

On October 15, 2008, Microsoft released an emergency out-of-band patch to fix vulnerability MS08-067, which the worm exploits to spread.[36] This patch was released prior to the release of the Conficker worm. Removal tools are available from Microsoft,[37] BitDefender,[38] Enigma Software,[39] ESET,[40] F-Secure,[41] Symantec,[42] Sophos,[43] and Kaspersky Lab,[44] while McAfee and AVG can remove it with an on-demand scan.[45][46] While Microsoft has released patches for the later Windows XP Service Packs 2 and 3 and Windows 2000 SP4 and Vista, it has not released any patch for Windows XP Service Pack 1 or earlier versions (excluding Windows 2000 SP4), as the support period for these service packs has expired. Since the virus can spread via USB drives that trigger AutoRun, disabling the AutoRun feature for external media (through modifying the Windows Registry) is recommended.[47] However the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) describes Microsoft's guidelines on disabling Autorun as being "not fully effective," and they provide their own guides.[48] CERT has also made a network-based tool for detecting Conficker-infected hosts available to federal and state agencies.[49] Microsoft has released a removal guide for the worm via the Microsoft website.[50]

[oroborous]

Guess I won't be on my computer tomorrow.

[Deadly]

Something about this whole topic seems fishy...hmmm

[ZiggY]

Its not the 1st yet, save the bullshit stories until then.

[twitchy]

Guess I'll stick to my pranks tomorrow and not getting on my computer.

[docofthemist1337]

i said this yet noone listened to me

it will be worth it when i never see them on a working computer again

EDIT:found my post
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/41859/108/

hiding and preparing

[Godshelp]

I doubt it will infected everyones computer.... There is NO way to infect everyones computers. It will infect the idiots of download stuff without knowing what it is and using piracy.

[Waterboy2go]

March 19, 2009, 6:25 pm
The Conficker Worm: April Fool's Joke or Unthinkable Disaster?
By John Markoff

Update | 3:57 p.m. Added links to malware removal tools.

The Conficker worm is scheduled to activate on April 1, and the unanswered question is: Will it prove to be the world's biggest April Fool's joke or is it the information age equivalent of Herman Kahn's legendary 1962 treatise about nuclear war, "Thinking About the Unthinkable"?

Conficker is a program that is spread by exploiting several weaknesses in Microsoft's Windows operating system. Various versions of the software have spread widely around the globe since October, mostly outside the United States because there are more computers overseas running unpatched, pirated Windows. (The program does not infect Macintosh or Linux-based computers.)

An estimated 12 million or more machines have been infected. However, many have also been disinfected, so a precise census is difficult to obtain.

It is possible to detect and remove Conficker using commercial antivirus tools offered by many companies. However, the most recent version of the program has a significantly improved capacity to remove commercial antivirus software and to turn off Microsoft's security update service. It can also block communications with Web services provided by security companies to update their products. It even systematically opens holes in firewalls in an effort to improve its communication with other infected computers.

Given the sophisticated nature of the worm, the question remains: What is the purpose of Conficker, which could possibly become the world's most powerful parallel computer on April 1? That is when the worm will generate 50,000 domain names and systematically try to communicate with each one. The authors then only need to register one of the domain names in order to take control of the millions of zombie computers that have been created.

Speculation about Conficker's purpose ranges from the benign — an April Fool's Day prank — to far darker notions. One likely possibility is that the program will be used in the "rent-a-computer-crook" business, something that has been tried previously by the computer underground. Just like Amazon.com offers computing time on its network for rent, the Conficker team might rent access to its "network" for nefarious purposes like spamming.

The most intriguing clue about the purpose of Conficker lies in the intricate design of the peer-to-peer logic of the latest version of the program, which security researchers are still trying to completely decode.

According to a research addendum to be added Thursday to an earlier paper by researchers at SRI International, in the Conficker C version of the program, the infected computers can act both as clients and servers and share files in both directions. The peer-to-peer design is also highly distributed, making it more difficult for security teams to defeat the system by disabling so-called super-nodes.

Conficker's authors could be planning to create a scheme like Freenet, the peer-to-peer system that was intended to make Internet censorship of documents impossible.

Or perhaps the Conficker botnet's masters have something more Machiavellian in mind. One researcher, Stefan Savage, a computer scientist at the University of California at San Diego, has suggested the idea of a "Dark Google." What if Conficker is intended to give the computer underworld the ability to search for data on all the infected computers around the globe and then sell the answers? Malware already does this on a focused basis using a variety of schemes that are referred to as "spear phishing," in a reference to the widespread use of social engineering tricks on the Net.

But to do something like that on a huge scale? That would be a dragnet — and a genuine horror story.

[lambson804]

Do you have some proof to back up your claim that even the government cant crack it or other proof that it is the most sophisticated virus yet?

I guess I shouldn't have rushed in posting that before I left work.. I'll re-phrase what was written in my last post... I said that it was the most sophisticated because even though people have known about it for some time now, it's been able sneak past its own signatures (yes, I know polymorphic viruses do this too) and been able to get into some of the most secure systems/networks..

as far as the gov't goes - they've been working on it for some time now, and all they can decode from the virus is that it's just sitting there requesting more information/directions from the creator.. They haven't been able to pinpoint the creator, but they do believe that it started in Russia..


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now, for the evidence:

Besides the fact that I am on a government contract with the G-Man, 60 Minutes did a segment on the virus.. Here is a link talking a bit about it:

URL (http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10206784-83.html)

From Gizmodo:
URL (http://i.gizmodo.com/5191976/11th+hour-fix-may-protect-huge-corporate-networks-from-conficker-worms-nastiness)

[Dre]

macs........I love mines.

[gehn6]

been able to get into some of the most secure systems/networks..

The most secure network is only as strong as the most idiotic person with access to it...

It's going to what what every other worm does, be a worm. I'm not worried, I know how to use the interwebs. 8 years and still no viruses/malware/spyware/worms/etc on any of the machines i've owned. :)

[BadAssBoomer]

macs........I love mines.

Automatic updates........ I love them

[Hon3r]

...Yeah, remember the Y2K scare?

'nuff said.

(Of course, tomorrow I'll find out if I eat those words...)

[SlainPwner666]

Well, I'm not taking any chances, and I will rofl my face off if it turns out to be real

[Typhoon808]

If you have an anti-virus which is up-to-date you have nothing to be concerned about.

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001636.h tml (http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001636.html)

[LordBhorak]

(Of course, tomorrow I'll find out if I eat those words...)

But tomorrow I'll eat my worms. :D

[Deadly]

This story has to be BS anyway, I mean, Russians!? Everyone knows asians are going to code the super internet ending hack

[lambson804]

If you have an anti-virus which is up-to-date you have nothing to be concerned about.

yeah, if you've been up-to-date on your AV, you should be fine.. You may experience some more spam mail.. but who knows what else it's going to do..

it's been gathering (no pun intended) zombies for its botnet right now, but it's "supposed to go off" tomorrow...

[Hon3r]

This story has to be BS anyway, I mean, Russians!? Everyone knows asians are going to code the super internet ending hack

lol
"Delete internet? Y/N"

[Bill_the_nonchalant]

Oh no. The next stage in warfare, computer wars.

I'm sure this is just and April fools joke. But I swear to god if it touches my Xbox...

[lambson804]

"Delete internet? Y/N"

Are you sure you want to divide by 0? [Y/N]

[Neb]

zombie computers


God help us all.

[lambson804]

God help us all.

It's ok.. just shoot 'em in the ......monitor?

[Keptron]

It's called the conficker worm. It gets inside your comp and wipes your hard drive. Microsoft has a free system scan on their main website. I would recommend getting scanned
Where?

Are you sure you want to divide by 0? [Y/N]
You didn't knew that someone these days discovered how to divide by 0? You can search for it in google.

[lambson804]

You didn't knew that someone these days discovered how to divide by 0? You can search for it in google.
linkage? Edit: nevermind.. my head hurts now.. URL (http://www.philforhumanity.com/How_to_Divide_by_Zero.html)

Where?

Here's McAfee's scanner...

URL (http://www.mcafee.com/us/threat_center/conficker.html)

[Keptron]

Here's McAfee's scanner...
No MCAfee, I don't like :< Anyway thanks for it

linkage?
Dunno link, a guy on 4chan posted it ... and it wasn't fake. Someone is creating a new thing for math to divide by zero, I think it was the Null Number or something similar

[lambson804]

No MCAfee, I don't like :< Anyway thanks for it
URL (http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/viruses/worms/conficker.mspx)

^^ Microsoft

[Keptron]

^^ Microsoft
Thanks

[Deadly]

Yeah, an imaginary number. Same thing as the square root of a negative number. There isn't a number in existence that can do it so you use i.

[Stubbs]

................april fools. Seriously going to believe this guys?

[lambson804]

................april fools. Seriously going to believe this guys?

Hell of a build-up since it's been going on for 6 months or so...

[bee0877]

its on the front page of yahoo
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/132464;_ylt=AmpII cQ43jOjDn2xPR4bJmQazJV4 (http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/132464;_ylt=AmpIIcQ43jOjDn2xPR4bJmQazJV4)

[SlainPwner666]

Where?
URL (http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/viruses/worms/conficker.mspx#EMD)
All the info you need

[doa]

If you have been keeping your PC up-to-date with patches you should not have it anyway.

[knighthawk17]

Clever prank or clever way of terrorism?
Its obvious that whoever started this is pretty clever in spreading this. This could cause affairs against countries. Countries would investigates other countries and would cause suspicion and a downfall on their relationship towards each other. This relationship could escalate into an argument leading to a possible third world war.However, if this was a prank i would be so amazed on how much trouble people went through to do this prank. This could be the greatest prank in the history of pranks.

[lawlhat]

FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU


But seriously, most of us should be fine.

[Godshelp]

It is BS i say...
How can SO MANY PC's GET A FUCKING VIRUS FROM NOTHING
I call Bullshit on this &quot;conficker virus end of the world for PC's&quot; This is the SAME thing from year 2000 pretty much

[blah]

Everyone, this is serious, unplug your internet tonight, until the day after tomorrow. If the man is planning to use to worm tomorrow, Don't let the virus know its time to go into effect :). However, if its on a timer, your screwed anyways. :(

[doa]

How can SO MANY PC's GET A FUCKING VIRUS FROM NOTHING

From not being patched ... buffer exploit ...

[DethPenguin]

A virus that will infect every computer that's made in Russia on April Fool's Day?

Sounds legit. Nevertheless, I'll go without the internet for tomorrow so I can get some shit done.

[blah]

Good Idea. I'm like unplugging all my router and stuff.
OH CRAP!!! NO XBOX LIVE TOMORROW :( That means no left 4 dead :(

[lawlhat]

Either way I ran about 2 tools to remove the virus. Both Microsofts and Symantecs.

[DethPenguin]

Good Idea. I'm like unplugging all my router and stuff.
OH CRAP!!! NO XBOX LIVE TOMORROW :( That means no left 4 dead :(

Actually, I'd wait a little longer than a day. What if the April Fool's prank is that he DOESNT release it on the 1st, and releases it on say the 4th once the suspicion has died down. No internet for me this week. :P

If this is indeed legit, I'll soon find out on the computers at school.

[Killa]

I hope it erases all the hard drives of credit card company's so I wont owe nothing. :DDD then I would call this virus godly.

[PsychoJoe]

Best April fools joke ever.

[InstantDeath]

In some countries in the world it is April Fools Day already. D:
I guess this virus is making some big news. I was watching CNN and they were talking about it.

[shadowstreak]

Best April fools joke ever.
Agreed, everyone will be freaking out, and then I bet the worm will just make a pop-up that says &quot;April Fools!&quot; And then it will do nothing ever again

[DethPenguin]

I hope it erases all the hard drives of credit card company's so I wont owe nothing. :DDD then I would call this virus godly.

And then steals your credit card number.

[Infest0125]

So, a virus that infects EVERY computer on the planet, coincedentally enough on April Fool's day?

Makes perfect sense. I doubt it to be honest. It's kinda funny cause this girl I know was warning me and my friends nto to use the internet tommorow because of this.

[DethPenguin]

So, a virus that infects EVERY computer on the planet, coincedentally enough on April Fool's day?

But it's made in Russia. In modern Russia, virus infects planet!

[PewPew]

Obviously april fools.

[shadowstreak]

In modern Russia,
computer
infects
virus
!
lol, that is what I instantly saw... But really, I just checked for updates (I am already updated), Scanned my computer with AVG, then did the window's internet scan, and all it told me was I need to defragment my hard drive!

[Godshelp]

Russia can find our time... Trust me guys, it is a April Fools joke. :)

[linkmelee1993]

It can't work if you're not on, and I don't have time anyways, so JOKE (or no.... it's the former), it won't happen, so... yeah. waste of time.


If it is real, you'll see Stalin's ghost: &quot;AAAH! MOTHERLAND!&quot;

[Suman]

By this time I've read alot of news about it and I'm not infected... Yet..
No one's sure about it's an April Fool's Joke but it could be, Microsoft says it probably isn't, but I can't know.
Just do what your websites and Anti-Viruses tell you to do and you should be okay.

[Marquez]

I'd say it's a joke, and Microsoft is only taking it seriously to cover their ass.

[gehn6]

I enjoy how none of you know how this stuff works. Also, it isn't a virus, it's a worm. Big difference. Secondly, it's not about GETTING the worm today, it's about all the people who already have the worm being activated to do stuff and things.

[Godshelp]

Gehn, they said it would INFECTED EVERY PC...
It is a fake though. April 1st now and nada thing. APRIL FOOLS

[SlainPwner666]

No, actually there are about 30 million computers already infected. Apparently none of us have it.

[Cyanyde]

Apparently none of us have it.
Maybe that's because the ones who do have it, can't get on here to post.
:P

[SlainPwner666]

Yeah. Like 3\4 of my friends list called me a pussy for taking all the precautions, well, where are they? PWNT SON!!!!!!!

[Darkness]

No, actually there are about 30 million computers already infected. Apparently none of us have it.
not quite, &quot;He said the worm already controls more than 10 million computers by some estimates&quot;

on its effects:
&quot;If someone says, 'I want to try to hack some system and try millions of combinations of Social Security numbers,' they could purchase this computing power to do that,&quot; Shah said.&quot; //what it could do

So far, the worm &quot;kind of calls home and says, 'What should I do?'&quot; he said. And so far, the response has been to do nothing, he said. //what it has done so far


source:http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/04/01/tech.viruses/in dex.html (http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/04/01/tech.viruses/index.html)
Is it a direct download link to conficker? maybe... maybe I am the maker... and am a genius... maybe...

[SlainPwner666]

Who is He?

[Darkness]

Lol, too lazy to read cnn eh?

Until it says &quot;shah said&quot;, Im pretty sure it references to Lawrence Baldwin, the chief forensics officer with mynetwatchman.com, an Internet security site based in Atlanta

Shah is: Simit Shah, director of Web operations for CNN.com.

Edit: On a side note, update added to this cnn article:
As many as 10 million PCs are thought to be infected with the worm. In theory, that gives an unknown master computer control of these infected &quot;zombies,&quot; allowing the master to push a malicious computer program onto the machines.


AHHH! ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE!!!

[SlainPwner666]

Nah, I dont read cnn these days. Too much BS with the media, I take what I read with a lot of salt.

[Darkness]

Yeah, thats true enough. I usually dont either, I just am reading this because they are the (sadly) most trusty source for fast new information on conficker that I was looking to start my day by enjoying to find out what tragedy is befalling others with it.

[SlainPwner666]

Yeah
I have friends in every country around the world, many of them very powerful people, so I will know if anything goes down

[Deadly]

The origin of the name:Although the origin of the name &quot;conficker&quot; is not known with certainty, Internet specialists and others have speculated that it is a German portmanteau fusing the term &quot;configure&quot; with &quot;ficken&quot;, the German word for &quot;fuck.&quot;

I doubt microsoft officals have gone around saying fuck fuck fuck to everyone in german for 6 months. Basically when they said we need to fix this conficker virus, they actually said &quot;We need to fix this fucking virus.&quot;

[Zorgy]

So is my computer going to assplode then or not? I Iz cunfooseded

[linkmelee1993]

Yeah
I have friends in every country around the world, many of them very powerful people, so I will know if anything goes down

Nice. SOunds like me, but mine are just people I met, chatted with, did stuff for them and now they owe me favors. That's how we're getting city water in the boonies now. I got state rep to do it! HAH!

NAh, if it hasn't yet. To check your PC, run it in safe mode. If you can't, you have it. Get rid of it. Done.

EDIT: BTW, I have a friend who is trying to put the worm on a flash drive, because he is a whiz. Guess he found it. Hah. Don't know whether to believe him or not, but he probably could...

[black671]

ok, im on my shitty computer right now just for precautions. If this worm is really that bad, what are some ways to prevent me from getting it? A list would be greatly appreciated.

[gehn6]

Most of the infected PCs are in asia, only a small percentage of the infected machines are in the US.

[black671]

Most of the infected PCs are in asia, only a small percentage of the infected machines are in the US.
ok thats nice to know. HOWEVER, how to protect!!! i needs mah info NAO

[DoGZaO]

just another virus to add to my collection

[black671]

ok, just scanned my shitty computer, im fine. but im scared to turn on my laptop lol. its got bank account information and stuff like that on it

edit:come oon i rly wanna go on my laptop!!! someone help plz

edit#2: ok fine. im goin on my laptop. but if i get this fucking virus im blaming you all. farewell....

edit#3: YAY IM CONFICKER FREE!!

for now.....

[horse_sweater]

I think it's all 100% BS.... really.

[black671]

hmmm it does seem as if no one i know has reported catching it, so i cant say it does or does not exist. still bein precautious until further notice

[DethPenguin]

April Fools.

[darkmessiah]

April Fools.

Yeh got us.

[linkmelee1993]

Yeh got us.

Again... /facepalm/

So does anyone actually know if anyone's computer went all &quot;Russian zombie KA-BOOM!&quot; on us?

[Godshelp]

Everyone I know said they didn't get it and asked everyone they knew... No one had it that they knew...

APRIL FOOLS

[linkmelee1993]

Yah, gotta be some cover-up for something. Maybe they used it to keep cyberterrorists out of the meetings in London?

IDK, weird conspiracy probably.

[Boojangels]

Oh hai guys. I'm the conflicker worm and I'm about to rape your shit. Just thought I'd sign up for these forums and blend in a bit.

And now that you know my plans...

[DethPenguin]

Oh hai guys. I'm the conflicker worm and I'm about to rape your shit. Just thought I'd sign up for these forums and blend in a bit

Get the ficken out of here, conflicker.

[linkmelee1993]

Get the ficken out of here, conflicker.

You get a cookie for that one, Deth.

[Boojangels]

Ah, but I'm also the Illuminati (http://www.left4dead411.com/forums/index.php?action=vthread&forum=3&topic=7856&page=1#msg175377). I am your world, I AM YOUR GOD. I AM THE INTERNET AND THE AIR YOUR BREATHE. BOW TO ME PUPPETS.

[linkmelee1993]

&quot;Yeeees... Masterrrrrr...&quot;

I say NO.

[black671]

my friends mom's computer supposedly has it.

[one of them]

&quot;Yeeees... Masterrrrrr...&quot;

I say NO.

But you said Yes first.

[Dorito Burrito]

It's K. The news said it wasn't as powerful as they thought it would be. But I was thinking maybe the people who made it reset it and maybe they are gonna set it for another day. one that no one expects it.

[DethPenguin]

RUSSIA'S TROLLIN'!

[one of them]

But I was thinking maybe the people who made it reset it and maybe they are gonna set it for another day. one that no one expects it.
That...... orrr....

It was an April Fools joke. It probably doesn't do anything. If that's true, it's the best April Fools joke EVER.

[Infest0125]

I don't care if it does or doesn't exist.

Either way, the porn virus has beat it to all of our computers no doubt.

[Boojangels]

I'm still here, don't worry.

[darkmessiah]

I'm still here, don't worry.

Fuck, thought you left.

[DethPenguin]

So um. April Fools!
That sure was a good prank I played on u gaiz.

[shadowstreak]

I laughed at all of my friend even before this, most of them are not very good with computers, and did not touch their pc all april fools day. Though I wish I could have pranked them.

[l4dfan]

oh noes, the virus is controlling my brain.

[theliberator1]

humans are a virus. do you think that's air you're breathing now?