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hey nerds, check your networks for conficker



summary: Conficker (aka downadup) is a pretty sophisticated and widespread p2p-based worm / botnet that's about 10 million strong. no one knows what it's intended use is, but it's probably going to be used for stealing money, rigging elections, plastering the world with kitten posters, or ending the internet.

mwinter

3716 Posts

Posted Mar 31, 2009
5:34pm EDT
i'm just hearing about this one today

Drew

3247 Posts

Posted Mar 31, 2009
5:45pm EDT
yeah its been out there for a while, but it's set to get a big update tomorrow, which is why everyone's scrambling to disable as many clients as they can.

mwinter

3716 Posts

Posted Mar 31, 2009
5:47pm EDT
how does it get on your computer, do you have to run a dumb .exe or allow a stupid plug-in or is it badass enough to do whatever it wants without even asking first?

Drew

3247 Posts

Posted Mar 31, 2009
5:49pm EDT
Thanks kubuntu. i dont have to worry about win32 virus' or .exe shit anymore.

theDaHaMeR

53 Posts

Posted Apr 1, 2009
9:31am EDT
it does not need you to run anything, if you're directly connected to the internuts. however, if any computer that's on your local network gets infected, then it can directly connect to your junk. just get the latest MS updates (the patch has been out for quite a while) and you should be fine. if you do get infected, it blocks access to windows update + a lot of antivirus sites, and kills any processes associated with those kinds of programs. so i guess it's easy to tell if you're infected, just try to go to the windows update site. and there's a bazillion removal tools available, so we're good there.

mwinter

3716 Posts

Posted Apr 1, 2009
10:18am EDT
I was up in D.C. this past week for my fellowship's annual conference. It turns out one of the new fellows is Virgil Griffith. Perhaps some of you are familiar with him, he's the creator of Wikiscanner for identifying corporations/groups that are editing their own wikipedia pages. He was also one of the co-conspirators in the Buzzcard/Blackboard hacking incident. Turns out he's also a pretty chill guy so it was rather interesting talking with him



edit: turns out he's already been mentioned on the 409 here (one of Mike's posts)

Steven

645 Posts

Posted Jul 18, 2009
10:04am EDT
cool!

Mike

1973 Posts

Posted Jul 18, 2009
12:31pm EDT
pujols. i forgot my admin password. i have a backup reg'ler ol user account, but its so depressing to be denied permission to update acrobat on your own computer :( . any ideas?

Mike

1973 Posts

Posted Oct 18, 2009
10:27pm EDT
lmgtfy

mwinter

3716 Posts

Posted Oct 19, 2009
8:36am EDT
are you callin pebkac? ;)

Mike

1973 Posts

Posted Oct 19, 2009
8:36pm EDT
I'm just saying the problem you're having is well defined and easily searchable :) I'll be happy to help if none of the google results are helpful

mwinter

3716 Posts

Posted Oct 19, 2009
9:04pm EDT
:'( i messed up on my website and I deleted my mySQL user. I would just add it back but its name was juams201_pnke1 and apparently you can only create a username with 7 characters???

Mike

1973 Posts

Posted Oct 29, 2009
1:07am EDT
auggghtpbthth
ok i'm screwed. would anybody take a crack at salvaging some files off of an sql db?

or does it work that way?
WTF is SQL?
FML

Mike

1973 Posts

Posted Oct 29, 2009
2:41am EDT
(Updated: Oct 29, 2009
2:53am EDT)
go to bed

ezmac102

734 Posts

Posted Oct 29, 2009
3:16am EDT
you could try creating a user with name "pnke1", sometimes the prefix+underscore is added for you by the system.

mwinter

3716 Posts

Posted Oct 29, 2009
8:14am EDT
you're a damned genius. that worked but its too late i already paid the 15 bucks to have the hosting peeps revert to a previous state. thanks tho ;D

Mike

1973 Posts

Posted Oct 29, 2009
5:28pm EDT
booyah, sorry I didn't post it sooner :)

mwinter

3716 Posts

Posted Oct 29, 2009
6:31pm EDT
So, I was just checking my email, went to empty my spam folder on gmail...this voice starts saying something out of my speakers, something about Georgia Tech and Rednecks...no idea. I try to turn my speakers down, it kept getting louder. Turned them off, it kept going for a second, then turned off...Then my lamp came on next to my computer and then went off...What the hell just happened? I think someone sent me a haunted spam message.

rachew

831 Posts

Posted Nov 8, 2009
12:48pm EST
Well that's really weird. your lamp is a touch lamp, so that part isn't all that peculiar.

Did you have any other tabs open? any windows that got popped under?

mwinter

3716 Posts

Posted Nov 8, 2009
1:16pm EST

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