HUGE COMPUTER VIRUS

Um people, just to let you all know. THERE IS A HUGE VIRUS GOING AROUND THE WEB RIGHT NOW!

I saw something about it on the news today and 5 minutes ago my virus scanner just popup'd with it warning me about the same virus. I'd turn your Norton Anti-Virus on, it's fucking people's comps up bad! I think that's what is going on with spun's comp.

bump, i would not open a damn thing attached to any email, i dont care who its from. thats how it works, as it autosends shit from people's accounts.

Um, WRONG. It's not coming from people's emails. It's coming in the backdoor through your ISP servers.

Originally posted by American Press
LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The rapidly evolving "Sasser" computer worm tore across the Internet on Tuesday, claiming new scalps among corporate and home computer users as others scrambled to fortify their machines against attack.





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First detected over the weekend, the worm has already infected, by some estimates, over one million PCs running on Microsoft Windows 2000 (news - web sites), NT and XP operating systems.


Among its victims are banks, travel-booking systems, European Commission (news - web sites) offices and Britain's 19 Coastguard stations.


"We've had to go back to plotting on paper charts rather than using the computer mapping system," said a Maritime and Coastguard spokeswoman. But search and rescue operations have not been affected.


Unlike most previous Internet outbreaks, Sasser infects vulnerable PCs without any action by the user like opening attachments, allowing it to spread very quickly.


Computer worms tend to spread faster than the typical e-mail borne virus as they are usually programed to continuously scan the Internet's global network to hunt for PCs to infect.


Experts said while corporate network technicians had by and large moved to block its further spread by Tuesday, infection among home users was spreading.


"Among corporate computer users the impact has dropped off because network administrators have taken time to put patches in place," said Joe Hartmann, director of the virus research group for Trend Micro Inc. in Cupertino, California.


"That's not true for many home computer users where this virus can spread exponentially," Hartmann said. "I don't think this virus has reached its full potential yet."


ADDED BOOST


Businesses in parts of Europe returning from the long holiday weekend gave Sasser an extra boost on Tuesday.


"It's still going steady. It will be a big problem for a day or two, then it will linger on the Internet for weeks, and likely years," said Mikko Hypponen, anti-virus research director at Finnish data security firm F-Secure.


"We do know that once you connect a computer to the Internet you risk being hit in a matter of minutes," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for anti-virus firm Sophos. "Even a new computer you buy in the coming months is vulnerable to infection. This is a real nuisance."


Home users would likely first notice an infection if their computer mysteriously rebooted or their Internet connection slowed dramatically.


Security experts were warning users to update their PCs with the latest Microsoft patches and to install a firewall to keep out future infections.


In the space of three days, four variants have emerged, each capable of causing machines that run on Microsoft's Windows operating systems XP, NT and 2000 to reboot without warning.


Victims so far include Goldman Sachs, Australia's Westpac Bank and Finnish financial company Sampo. It has also hit about 300,000 computers at Germany's Deutsche Post and 1,200 PCs at the European Commission in Brussels.





Sasser attacks a flaw in a part of Windows known as the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service, or LSASS, which has been known about since April 13.

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i'd lick to hit one of these little computer virus sending nerds in the face

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THANKS FOR THE HEADS UP

Basically, nerds with nothing but free time.

This will never end. :(

[SwampGator]

I hate the little pukes! They cause me hours of time just trying to keep their stupid frigin' worms out of my network at work!

[cptsteele]

Maybe its sky-net like on t3 :D Thanks callipso

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[Kittychick]

I think u meant my computer...nope it wasnt the Sasser virus...I had looked to see if it was that....but thanks for the heads up Calipso :)