Mikko Hypponen
Mikko Hypponen
Mikko Hermanni Hyppönenis a computer security expert and columnist...
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There appears to be three different virus writing gangs turning out new worms at an alarming rate -- as if they would be competing who would build the biggest network of infected machines.
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We seem to have a botwar on our hands. There appear to be three different virus-writing gangs turning out new worms at an alarming rate, as if they would be competing who would build the biggest network of infected machines.
alarming appears biggest build competing gangs infected network rate seem three turning worms
We seem to have a botwar on our hands. There appears to be three different virus-writing gangs turning out new worms at an alarming rate  as if they would be competing who would build the biggest network of infected machines.
alarming appears biggest build competing gangs infected network rate seem three turning worms
We seem to have a botwar on our hands, ... There appears to be three different virus-writing gangs turning out new worms at an alarming rate  as if they would be competing who would build the biggest network of infected machines.
alarming appears biggest build competing gangs infected network rate seem three turning worms
We seem to have a botwar on our hands, ... There appears to be three different virus-writing gangs turning out new worms at an alarming rate  as if they would be competing who would build the biggest network of infected machines.
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This is nasty, as this is done on all mounted drives, ie. any drive that has a drive letter. So it might affect your USB thumb drives, external hard drives and network drives. Also, if you're taking daily automatic backups, you might end up backing up the corrupted files over good files.
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I believe in the freedom of the net, but I don't believe in the freedom of the net at the cost of having these online criminal gangs running completely loose and using the freedom of the net to steal everybody's money and take away the trust we have.
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I see beauty in the future of the Internet, but I'm worried that we might not see that. I'm worried that we are running into problems because of online crime. Online crime is the one thing that might take these things away from us.
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Otherwise, it's totally new code. But there's a common idea,
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It all comes down to whether the code ends up being shared or not. We have not seen it out on the Internet yet.
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We learned of the scanning bug in early December, but because it affected a wide range of our products, we wanted to release a fix for all (of the affected versions) at once.
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We have seen dozens of different attacks using this vulnerability since Dec. 27. One exploits image files and tries to get users to click on them; another is an MSN Messenger worm that will send the worm to people on your buddy list, and we have seen several spam attacks.
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We have listed URLs that we are recommending systems administrators block. We don't recommend blocking the whole domain, as 99 percent of the pages on these free Austrian and German domains are OK. You should just block the problem URLs.
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Anonymous is like an amoeba: it's got too many different operations run by truly different people which might not share a single person with another operation, but they use the same branding - they are part of the Anonymous brand, just like al-Qaida.