New Computer Worm, Oh no!!!! Options

[*nightmare4taki*]

Anyone hear about that new computer worm that reboots your computer endlessly. Im scared. Im headed right over to microsoft right now and downloading the patch. They say it affects Windows XP users and Windows 2000 users. I just hard that on the news just then.


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Security Watch: New Worm Hits Windows Hole in Record Time
Top Botnet Data as reported by the drone armies / botnets research and mitigation mailing list for August 15, 2005

Why do people spread worms and viruses? In order to create 'botnets'. The drone armies / botnets research and mitigation mailing list is a private research list that studies these networks and periodically reports on them.

The networks on which they report are the public networks which comprise the Internet. Each network has an ASN (Autonomous System Number), a count of the number of C&C (command and control) systems observed, and the number that remains open and/or unresolved by the network provider.

The network providers are listed as "Responsible Party", although they aren't necessarily the only responsible party. Many smaller hosting services and ISPs operate as customers of these networks.

ASNs with 10 or more unresolved and open suspect C&Cs

ASN Responsible Party Count Open/
Unresolved
21840 SAGONET-TPA - Sago Networks 53 34
30058 FDCSERVERS - FDCservers.net LL 65 32
30083 SERVER4YOU - Server4You Inc. 41 28
12832 LYCOS-EUROPE Lycos Europe GmbH 31 27
23522 CIT-FOONET - CREATIVE INTERNET 25 23
174 COGENT Cogent/PSI 45 23
13680 AS13680 Hostway Corporation Ta 22 22
6461 MFNX MFN - Metromedia Fiber Ne 23 18
27595 ATRIVO-AS - Atrivo 27 16
15083 INFOLINK-MIA-US - Infolink Inf 19 15
4766 KIXS-AS-KR Korea Telecom 41 15
8560 SCHLUND-AS Schlund + Partner A 28 14
27645 ASN-NA-MSG-01 - Managed Soluti 19 12
13237 LAMBDANET-AS European Backbone 15 12
1113 TUGNET Technische Universitaet 12 11
13301 UNITEDCOLO-AS Autonomous Syste 16 11
6939 HURRICANE - Hurricane Electric 12 10
16265 LEASEWEB LEASEWEB AS 13 10
21698 NEBRIX-CA - Nebrix Communicati 25 10

Source:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1848348,00.asp

[artislife90]

I heard about it yesterday I think... I am not too worried since I have a Mac.. My mom has Windows though.. Think her Norton Antivirus will keep it at bay, or should I tell her to be on the look out?

[seriouslynikki]

I heard about it yesterday I think... I am not too worried since I have a Mac.. My mom has Windows though.. Think her Norton Antivirus will keep it at bay, or should I tell her to be on the look out?

Yeah. I use a Mac. My dad said the worm would be only in Windows. Yeah, tell your mom to be on the lookout.

[artislife90]

Yeah. I use a Mac. My dad said the worm would be only in Windows. Yeah, tell your mom to be on the lookout.

haha! another advantage to Macintosh! (woot and yay)

hmm... Just to my mom to be more careful. she glared at me and said if anything happens to her Dell she would be thrilled because then she would have reason to get herself an apple.