Comments on: Storm creators offer their botnet for lease

By: The Deviant

The Deviant — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:39:49 +0000

30 (K7) has a point. If windows software works on it, then the virii will work on it also. Making it no more secure, infact, probably less secure.

By: Darth Arcon

Darth Arcon — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:18:23 +0000

“metamorphoses”? Sounds like SkyNet is taking over! Dam it, wheres Arnold when you need him?!

By: jeffd

jeffd — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:06:03 +0000

wow, alot of people talking about how to prevent your computer from being infected..how about the botnet itself? I’m sorta confused here.

Storm is P2P based, taking its commands from OTHER clients. So, what makes it so damn hard for one client to send out a self destruct command?

By: hELLhASfROZENoVER

hELLhASfROZENoVER — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:23:19 +0000

I will never trust any OS enough not to have any brand of Antivirus.

On another note MS 2 new patches from this tuesday, really slowed down my PC on login. Anyone else having this problem.
It seems to take forever to load the settings.

By: Mr. X

Mr. X — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:28:53 +0000

You don’t need AV if you have linux or beos !

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:15:56 +0000

@13 http://happycards2008.com/

By: LOL

LOL — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:58:54 +0000

@ 5 if u dont use an anti virus then how do you know you havnt been infected numb nuts

LOL

We all should know to have atleast minimum anti virus, heck u can even get a few for free if u look in the right places he he

I only do my banking from my work pc which is better protected than my home pc as im always d/ling crap from the net.

Its hit n miss really, by the time we hear about it it could be too late. the only way to be sure is unplug that modem rofl

By: chriscross

chriscross — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:56:52 +0000

i would really love to see Storm in action.

By: John

John — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:55:10 +0000

These people that write these programs and botnets need their nuts ripped off with a pair of vice-grips.

By: whoop

whoop — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:16:25 +0000

If you wanna get in on a botnet, or even the storm worm, just keep on DL’ing CORE and other “release” groups stuff off here and other torrent sites. This place is filled with infected programs.

By: k7

k7 — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:38:29 +0000

Notice it’s a warning put out by an AV company, and not one of the big ones either… Scare tactic? I’m surprise nobody has commented on this by now. Run your updates, keep an your AV proggy up to date, and toss out your foil hat.

@18: If it’s 100% compatible with Windows binaries, won’t it be 100% compatible with the virii too?

By: Winssi

Winssi — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:24:31 +0000

Install linux on some oldie computer and run your windows computer through that, bam no problems.

By: blacKdeath

blacKdeath — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:12:47 +0000

Upon first hearing about the Storm BotNet I seriously thought it was fake. A malware network that can take down small countries? You must be joking.

I wish they were.

This thing is growing by the day and the people behind it are always well ahead of the people trying to take it down. If this power is in the hands of organized crime groups then there are a lot of companies and governments that should be pooping there pants right now.

Unless a company or government is in control of it……Russia……China? Not a nice thought.

By: James

James — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:57:06 +0000

These rootkits are getting worse.
They need to find the crimals doing this instead of targeting the P2P community.

At least we all won’t be scammed.

When will ppl learn not to use Interent explorer and switch to Firefox with fijan and site sit advisor.
FFS

By: Ixion

Ixion — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:42:25 +0000

The Storm does sound a little bit like the early stages of Skynet (discarding the fact that in the movie it wasn’t a virus to begin with) Maybe we will see something cool when Storm aquires awareness! ;D