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i've never heard of this virus. I was watching techlive today and they past a news about a virus that dials 911. It is a virus that when you open it , it dials 911 and in a few minutes police would be on your front door.
I dont know about you guys but ive never heard and didnt know it would exist that a virus would dial 911, that is some weird stuff.
Weird eh?
For more info on this go to: http://www.techtv.com/news/security/...392631,00.html
Honestly, making a virus like that wouldn't be all that difficult. I'm curious, however, how the creator got the information necessary about WebTV/MSNTV in order to only affect that machine. As far as I know, it's not all that easy to write a program or a script that will affect the WebTV, since it's a pretty proprietary operating system. Nice find, though!
AJ
its been aroud for a few years
hhhmmmmmmmmm i didnt know that but what its really interesting is that how the creator got the information necessary about WebTV/MSNTV ! That is some really kool stuff!
There is also another virus, that makes a long-distance call to Greece. Viruses can be so nasty.
hmm?? so the virus thells the cops were u live?? i've got to say thats a smart virus!
well,
i see, as Gurl said/. virus can be so nasty!!
Bingo!!
that`s an interesting virus it just goes to show that viruses are getting more complex and more powerfull in there destructive nature each day
That would be a negative Bal. Once a call is connected to 911 dispatch it can be traced. This is in case an emegency call gets cut off or if the person is incapable of giving this information to police. Each state has a 911 dispatch office of operators that can rely the information to your town police. I had seen a program on their computer systems and relay systems. Did you know a class one call will be responded to in 3-5 minutes, and a class two can be anywhere from 15-20.... hmmmmQuote:
Originally posted here by balian0
hmm?? so the virus thells the cops were u live?? i've got to say thats a smart virus!
Thank you for clearing that up Joey_ I was just about to comment on that when I saw your post. I do find it funny though that the virus affects only WebTV/MSNTV. Is there even anti-virus software for those machines?
This post may be a little off topic.
I had a webtv for 3 years and I still own one and the fact is there are alot of hackers(if thats what you choose too call them) to dedicated to ripping apart the WebTV box and the WebTV network itself. Alot of cool stuff has been uncovered and its really not that hard. However since I did not do much exploring of the webtv myself I can not give you a direct answers. But if you would like alot of information on webtv hacking look for a site called UlTRICK, or ULTRIX. A person [email protected] had a large site full of information on webtv hacking. However alot of it was not aviable to the public. Even still there was alot of information there.(it seems this site is down)Quote:
Honestly, making a virus like that wouldn't be all that difficult. I'm curious, however, how the creator got the information necessary about WebTV/MSNTV in order to only affect that machine. As far as I know, it's not all that easy to write a program or a script that will affect the WebTV, since it's a pretty proprietary operating system. Nice find, though!
You can look for that site on google if you wish... I'm not sure if you'll find it. also I am contacting some of my webtv friends to see if any of them have the site saved. Here's another good one though of another webtv hacker if your interested.
http://www.geocities.com/wtvsecrets/index2.html
There was also a private newsgroup just for webtv hackers. They at one point discovered how to access these WEBTV private newsgroups some how with a computer(its probably still possible) however I am not sure how. Anyways the newsgroup was alt.discuss.webtv.hacking
Its really easy to make a webtv dial 911, though... REAL easy.
I just wonder whether virus creators are really doing these nasty things for fun??
Well that is some interesting stuff there but I still think that is a smart virus, I never thought of that before! Viruses are getting more smarter each day like prodikal said he is right!
Maybe the creator of the viruses are the ones getting smarter.
just like to expand on what gurl said...
i read about this scam a few years ago...there was a bit of code on some websites...generally pr0n sites which either convinced you to install it (special pr0n access authentication or some such thing..) or did it silently (this was before code signing etc...)...once the code was installed it would mess with your dialup, silence the speaker so you couldn't hear a dial tone and then phone some 900 number with some outrageous /minute charge in the middle of the night so it wouldnt disrupt regular phone use...you didn't find out about it until the phone bill came...and some had 1000's of $ of charges...Quote:
that makes a long-distance call to Greece.
haven't heard of it recently...but still something to be aware of...
a quick bit of reasearch later ....
OK there's an old(ish) batch file virus that attempts to dial 911. read all about both variants below.
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/bat911a.html
And
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/bat911b.html
All hail Sophos AV for the links above. (No I don't work for them in any way shape of form)
Sophos seemed not to have a mention of a webTV variant, but this doesn't mean there isn't one.
ohh i forgot, and here's an example of a Virus (or Trojan) that dials a premium rate
number.
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/anal...porndialb.html
And next time I post on the subject of Viruses i'll use a differant AV company, sound fair?
Regards