storm knows all… taken from wiki…The Storm botnet and its variants employ a variety of attack vectors, and an equally wide variety of defensive steps exist as well. The Storm botnet was observed to be defending itself, and attacking computer systems that scanned for Storm virus-infected computer systems online.[28] The botnet will defend itself with DDoS counter-attacks, to maintain its own internal integrity.[12] At certain points in time, the Storm worm used to spread the botnet has attempted to release hundreds or thousands of versions of itself onto the Internet, in a concentrated attempt to overwhelm the defenses of anti-virus and malware security firms.[29] According to Joshua Corman, an IBM security researcher, “This is the first time that I can remember ever seeing researchers who were actually afraid of investigating an exploit.”[30] Researchers are still unsure if the botnet’s defenses and counter attacks are a form of automation, or manually executed by the system’s operators.[30] “If you try to attach a debugger, or query sites it’s reporting into, it knows and punishes you instantaneously. [Over at] SecureWorks, a chunk of it DDoS-ed [directed a distributed-denial-of-service attack] a researcher off the network. Every time I hear of an investigator trying to investigate, they’re automatically punished. It knows it’s being investigated, and it punishes them. It fights back,” Corman said.[31]

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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