April Fools day virus

[Clanked]

I think its funny how everyone is screaming "patch everything!11!" or "It'll take us off the internet on April 1st!"

The Conficker A-C are by and large the best engineered viruses ever made. They are quite obviously a team of individuals with a vast amount of knowledge/funding. Look at the speed in which they implemented their encryption algorithm. IIRC it was less than 1 week after the release of the algorithm, that they had fully implemented it into their virus. A bug was found in said algorithm, and it was instantly patched.

The whole "april 1st" thing, wasn't when its going to go off. This isn't the melissa virus or something trivial like that. On april 1st (judged by a whole set of website timestamps of hugely popular websites) all it did was start checking for instructions from its randomly generated 50,000 domains. The instructions can only be given from the creator due to a 1024-bit key check.So until the owners actually decide to upload some instructions we have no idea what the intentions are. But they wouldn't put the effort they have into it, just to make the computers "blow up." So basicly: The virus is out there, just waiting. On April 1st, it started listening for what to do.

The anarchist in me hypothetically wishes the creators would just unleash hell, just to watch the world burn. It was be rather interestesting from an objective point of view, too bad it would probably screw with my world just as much as everyone else's. DDoSing an entire first world country would be quite a sight to see :)

I have a lot of respect for the creators of this virus. So as someone with a great deal of interest in computer securirty, I can't wait to see what they are going to do with it :) Hopefully something more interesting than a botnet for hire.

[Multibocks]

Alternately, I have no respect for creators of virii and malicious software. Instead of doing something useful in the world, with their incredible abilities, they would rather swindle people out of hard earned money. I really don't care for such an individual.

Reminds me of an ex-friend of mine. One day he got fired from Starbucks and told me about it. I asked if he deserved to be fire and he said, "absolutely." However, being black he decided he was going to threaten lawsuit over racism in management. Were they really racist? No, but he knew that he could get them to settle out of court. /friend

[Taliesin]

Just wanted to update with some of the latest news about Conficker.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/04/09/c...ted/index.html

Recap: The worm is actively trying to update itself, but hasn't shown any signs of doing anything more malicious than just that, so far. It is set to "turn off" on May 3, though I wouldn't read too much into that. It may just be a dormant state that it can be awakened from if needed, but it seems rather clear that it may stop replicating itself after that point.