.CA Registrar Trying To Preempt Conficker 227
clover kicker writes "The CBC reports that the group managing Canada's .ca internet domain is working to foil an internet worm set to attack starting April Fool's Day. 'This is the first virus that's really focused on domain names as part of propagating the virus itself,' said Byron Holland, CEO of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, a non-profit organization that represents those who hold a .ca domain. CIRA's strategy includes pre-emptively registering and isolating previously unregistered .ca domain names that Conficker C is expected to try and generate, said a news release issued by the group. That would make those names unavailable for anyone to register in order to set up a website to host the worm's 'command and control' file. A list of the names has been predicted by security experts based on the worm's code. In addition, CIRA is investigating and monitoring activity at names on the list that have already been registered and will 'take appropriate action if suspicious activity is detected.'"
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I feel left out... (Score:5, Funny)
My wife runs MacOS and I have my Linux... I really wish I could get involved in the party. Will Cornfucker run under Wine?
Re:Tactics? (Score:2, Funny)
"grammer" nazi?
April Fools!!! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hrm (Score:1, Funny)
Anti-virus software becomes live CDs that require a reboot to use. When you run it, it either replies "Your computer is fine" or "You must reinstall Windows".
Re:Hrm (Score:4, Funny)
We can only hope for some explosions to make it interesting.
Re:I feel left out... (Score:2, Funny)
What's in a name? (Score:4, Funny)
I think I've heard every lexically significant variation on the name of this damn worm by now. I have no idea what "Conficker" actually means or to what it refers, but so far on this thread people have called it "Conflicker," "Cornflicker," and best of all "Cornfucker."
I think another name for it is "Downadup," which I always read as either "Downandup" or "Download a Duplicate."
Who gets to name the worms? We know that this one employs neat tricks like code signing peer-to-peer driven software updates and that it might be used for a sort of "evil Google" that people can use to data mine financial stuff and so on. Couldn't we lobby for a more rational taxonomy, so we could call this one "Cryptographically Labyrinthine Internet-Traveling ORganized Information Stumbler?"
Re:Helps, but not much ... (Score:5, Funny)
Well, that would certainly explain the "C," wouldn't it?
Re:I feel left out... (Score:3, Funny)
No. It uses a vulnerability in the Windows File and Printer sharing daemon to inject a DLL file into svchost.exe.
I suggest filing a bug with SAMBA and Wine, respectively.
i just got off the toilet (Score:1, Funny)
plop!
Re:I feel left out... (Score:5, Funny)
Oh your elitist, mob-rule attitude is not helpful. Some of us aren't fortunate enough to be able to afford Microsoft software. The wife's Mac OS X came with her machine and my computer did come with Windows installed on it but I didn't create the restore media before my machine was trashed with malware. So instead of buying software, I got free software. It works just fine though. Well enough to post here, view all sorts of porn that would have trashed my computers again if I were running Windows, and aside from playing games and DRM media, I can do anything I ever wanted to do.
It is only during events like those created by cornfucker that I really begin to feel left out of the party.
Re:What's in a name? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Hrm (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Tactics? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hrm (Score:2, Funny)
bandwidth requirements for spam and other garbage keep climbing
What? BitTorrent isn't number one traffic anymore? This is not acceptable!
*ducks*
Re:I feel left out... (Score:3, Funny)
I recall a test of viruses under Wine, a while ago... apparently, only a few of the tested viruses would even run, but none were able to do anything dangerous.
Some have used this as an argument that Wine is not nearly compatible enough.
Re:Hrm (Score:3, Funny)
Am I the only one hoping like hell that someone will release this virus for the Mac and Linux platforms? :)
Re:I feel left out... (Score:4, Funny)
Oh the irony: "Some of us aren't fortunate enough to be able to afford Microsoft software. The wife's Mac OS X..."
Re:I feel left out... (Score:4, Funny)
nono.. that's why he can't afford Windows... he had to sell the car and remortgage the house to buy the Mac.