____/ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on Friday 06 July 2007 16:42 : \____
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>> New Trojan Makes Microsoft Windows Talk While Wiping out the Hard Drive
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>> | This new malicious code detected by PandaLabs last week uses the Windows
>> | text reader to play the following sentences:
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>> | "You have been infected I repeat you have been infected and your system
>> | files have been deleted. Sorry. Have a nice day and bye bye."
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>> | These comments are repeated over and over again while the Trojan
>> | tries to delete the entire content of the computer's hard disk.
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> Of course usually it's not in the interest of the criminals to wipe
> your computer, instead they'd rather keep it alive for other nefarious
> purposes. If more malware did this, you'd see people pay more
> attention to the quality of their OS. I'd prefer a different message,
> though, something like "Your system files have been deleted. Too
> bad. Next time you might consider a more secure OS." Just noticed
> that it says "system files", I guess that means the nice virus doesn't
> delete your personal data.
When I was about 13 I wrote a little 'virus' which was essentially a batch file
that wipes off system files (Windows 3.1). It's amazing that even back then
there was no mechanism to distinguish ordinary users from one that
administers.
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~~ Best of wishes
Roy S. Schestowitz | "Ping this IP, see if it responds the second time"
http://Schestowitz.com | Free as in Free Beer | PGP-Key: 0x74572E8E
Cpu(s): 26.1%us, 4.5%sy, 0.9%ni, 64.1%id, 3.9%wa, 0.3%hi, 0.2%si, 0.0%st
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