Obama Worm

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February 2nd, 2009, 01:24 PM
nihil

Obama Worm

No, that was not a political comment :D

A new worm has been found that sticks a picture of Obama in the bottom right corner of your screen.

Quote:

"There's some chance one of your students wrote it. Find your smartest, geekiest, dweebiest kid, and look hard at him. Remember, the geek shall inherit the earth."

Maybe Obama will make an exception for Gitmo? :D

Article:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-101...47-1009_3-0-20

I am sure GWB would consider it most malicious software:lildevil:
February 2nd, 2009, 02:57 PM
Cider

I would have put that picture of him topless!
February 2nd, 2009, 03:16 PM
nihil

The sad thing is that if they catch the poor kid they will probably crucify or at least hang, draw and quarter him?

In a way he has done a service? after all it does not seem to produce instability, has no malicious payload, and demonstrates that you have a security problem. It could easily have been something very different :eek:

Not the way to do it, I agree, but it does seem to be a harmless prank, and I would certainly cut him a lot of slack if caught.

:)
February 2nd, 2009, 04:25 PM
JPnyc

am I the only one who thinks this is really funny?
February 2nd, 2009, 04:31 PM
nihil

Hey JPNyc,

Why do you think I posted it :D

I am not the po-faced bastige that most members seem to think I am?

It kind of goes with my Texas roadsign post?

:)
February 2nd, 2009, 04:34 PM
JPnyc

OK LOL you win that one;). I mean I guess nothing that's done by force is really funny, but at least this falls short of any reasonable definition of maliciousness. Still, I don't think I would be as amused if it happened to my computer:D
February 2nd, 2009, 04:50 PM
nihil

Hmmmm,

I wonder if the kid was taking a pop at his peers?

"I have a 32Gb usb drive"
"Yeah, and it has my virus on it"

:D
February 3rd, 2009, 02:41 AM
Linen0ise

Funny but yet effective. If anything like my school days, the teacher won't snitch on you but will turn you into a teacher's pet
February 3rd, 2009, 08:20 AM
Cider

Quote:

Originally Posted by Linen0ise

Funny but yet effective. If anything like my school days, the teacher won't snitch on you but will turn you into a teacher's pet

So you were a teachers pet? :) :)
February 3rd, 2009, 05:21 PM
Linen0ise

Quote:

Originally Posted by nihil

Yeah...............the biology teacher's?

Yeah okay smelly feet.

I'm the parasite that would use you as a host, lay eggs, mess with your brain, and make you drown yourself. Then I will crawl out your azz and repeat. Do more research... i'm offended.

My last recorded victim: Crashing the party
http://tinyurl.com/bp3r6s
February 3rd, 2009, 05:56 PM
JPnyc

What the hell is this all about? What was so offensive in his post?
February 3rd, 2009, 06:05 PM
morganlefay

Its a typical post by Linen0ise

I think a tinfoil hat may help

MLF
February 3rd, 2009, 06:52 PM
morganlefay

See :eek7:

MLF
February 3rd, 2009, 09:48 PM
dinowuff

I hate deleted posts.

i r now corn fused
February 3rd, 2009, 09:53 PM
morganlefay

I should have quoted....
:rolleyes:

Now I am confused :eek7:

MLF
February 4th, 2009, 08:03 AM
Cider

LoL, stick to the topic!
February 6th, 2009, 02:37 PM
nihil

It may not be quite as harmless as first thought:

Quote:

Unfortunately, it is so badly written that the worm gradually renders any PC it is run on completely useless, according to Rob Koliha, Walling Data's director of innovation. "It will basically prevent execution of any kind of files."

AV manufacturers are starting to detect it:

http://www.sophos.com/security/analy...w32karaba.html

Quote:

“We were able to confirm via internal testing and virustotal.com that the “Obama Worm” is now detected by AVG Internet Security products, as well as avast! Security products,” said Luke Walling, Founder and President of Walling Data. “AVG is identifying the threat as Generic_c.ADYY, avast! identifies it as Win32:Rootkit-gen.”
February 6th, 2009, 10:24 PM
Cider

Yeah Panda also detects it.