How big is Sobig??

[Wilier]

I opened my BW mail this morning to revieve my 15 virus emails (all stopped by the good folks at Game.net )

Turns out a few others may have been infected.

 

[Cdr]

its about

|------ this big ------|

I've not had one at all - really gutted - kinda feel left out.

All the cool kids get them

 

[Teh Krypt]

Its not Sobig..

Unless my host already blocked the virus

Since I never got any *cries*

 

[Wilier]

*feels cool*

:great:

 

[Cdr]

*mumbles*

*grabs shotgun*

*walks into a school*

 

[dysfunction]

I never get any virii....

 

[kanonfodda]

I've had a shite load the last few days, but work mail server stops em all

*feels cool*

 

[]SK[]

I must be lucky, I havent seen one copy of sobig.f. Now Blaster is another matter...

 

[Testin da Cable]

the last thing my home virusscanner picked up was something called IRC.flood It was in my doze system recovery dir somewhere. No idea what it was but Mcafee zapped it right away.

 

[Cdr]

I've not had any of the recent virii

Makes me wanna unplug my router and connect straight to the net without a firewall!

Or I could just sit here like Cyril Sneer and laugh.

 

[mank!]

har har, I've not had Sobig or Blaster. I win.

 

[Cdr]

Neither do I, and I said it up there, so I win.

Can I have all that money from your other thread?

 

[mank!]

No, it's my life savings. It's my entire capital.

 

[pcg79]

ive had both. i feel dirty.

*rub on Wij*

 

[Pakman]

As a totally untechnical person I have a question for all the techy type people. With things like tv email, x-box live etc won't some clever person with too much time on their hands soon be able to write viruses for them sort of systems?

 

[Cdr]

Originally posted by mank!
No, it's my life savings. It's my entire capital.

I'll give you a turnip for it?

Its quite a nice turnip.

 

[Will]

Originally posted by Pakman
As a totally untechnical person I have a question for all the techy type people. With things like tv email, x-box live etc won't some clever person with too much time on their hands soon be able to write viruses for them sort of systems?

Yes. I wouldn't confirm whether or not this has happened yet.

Closed systems like these are more secure, since there is a smaller number of working bits, the network is closed off, and the technical specs are harder to get hold of. While technically possible, Windows makes a much easier target.

 

[Testin da Cable]

Originally posted by Pakman
As a totally untechnical person I have a question for all the techy type people. With things like tv email, x-box live etc won't some clever person with too much time on their hands soon be able to write viruses for them sort of systems?

yes. there are also viri that effect mobile phones I believe. the thing you have to realise is the fact that it's not really worth a cod0r's while to do it. a very average visual basic knowhow can net you x number of windows based computers world wide. a slightly more specialist coder may be able to take out y xboxen/gheycubes/whatever. as long as x is a magnitude larger (thus more probable) than y you won't have to worry as much. plus reaching the virii top 10 list nets you heavy cred with your spotty leetor friends yo.
what I can imagine happening is the servers that the consoles will be connecting to becoming a target, not the console itself. still, and xbox has a hard drive doesn't it? hmm that could inspire the fey and reckless


edit:// *waves at will*

 

[Embattle]

I don't think I've ever had a virus.......*Touches Wood*

 

[Sharma]

I have been quite lucky not to succumb to the lastest virii, although most of my friends on MSN/IRC have which seems odd to me becuase everyone else except me got them oO

 

[Ch3tan]

My BW mail has recieved about 15 or so over the last week as well Willier. Its getting annoying as I use that addy less and get more crap via it.

 

[Embattle]

I get more shit through my BW addy than I used to get

 

[Wilier]

got another 17 today

And Embeh, what about that Nob rot virus you had, dosnt the count

 

[mank!]

BW have sold everyone's email addresses off to spammers :/

 

[dysfunction]

SoBig is so big every 17th e-mail has the virus....thats a lot of e-mails!!!

 

[throdgrain]

Oohh I got one a work today .
I nearly opened it just to fuck things up

 

[Sar]

Haven't had this one, although I did have MSBlast on both PCs.

 

[whipped]

Here's a mail from the head of networking at Luton Uni.

"Just for interest sake, since midnight we have quarantined 2630 virus emails coming in the University - about 240 an hour! The vast majority are the Sobig virus in the news this morning."

Not one person infected. Aren't I a good Virus Officer

 

[dysfunction]

Its not that hard to block a virus though

 

[whipped]

Not at all. In fact I find it quite amazing that any virus propagates. All that is needed is some common sense and a regulary updated virus checker. I mean, how hard can it be.