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A new virus has just been discovered that has been classified by Microsoft as the most destructive ever! This virus was discovered yesterday afternoon by McAfee and no vaccine has yet been developed.
Read more at http://www.xatrix.org/modules.php?op...thread&order=1
Just to show my ignorance, I'll ask this question: how can a virus destroy a portion of the hard disk? :confused:
Hasn't this hoax been going around for a while now? I think I saw this a couple years ago.
Ok maybe not that long.....
http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/cgi-bin/...&line=1444#mfs
preacherman> well, now it can't really, but back in the day....
One of the things that used to be fun to do, but really expensive, was a pretty simple asm program. You could actually tell a harddrive to read sectors that didn't exist. So lets say your hard drive has 200 sectors. Now, you tell it to read sector 220. What happens? The arm keeps moving right past the platters and breaks. Well, now the drives are too smart for that. shows how much even simple technology can change.
This is always useful...
http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/
Ouroboros
don't people have better things to do then make viruses, worms or hoax?
I like Viruses and learning how to make them. They show a sort of brilliance and somtimes loop holes that haven't been noticed yet. I don't like being a victim or destroying others machines but making a successful viri, worm, or antype of malicious code is like an art. I'm not saying that somthing that formats your hard drive with a shell command is art. But polymorphisim is great to see.
This guy is just like Nakoka, spreading hoaxes won't give u a good name Kobbras.
Just for your inform...I have got e-mail from one security expert from Rhode Island(US), so I dont know if the information is thrue or not, but I published the article any way becease I care about security,and maybe I mistake when I didnt check the story. Just go to the www.hackers.com forum and you will find reply for my post that people in New York have got the same virus attension mail.
YES it is HOAX, we were got confirmation from McAfee so you can check at :http://vil.mcafee.com/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=98893