Why Microsoft is offering $250,000 Reward?

Microsoft just announced that anyone with infomation for the "Conficker" worm which has infected millions of Microsoft Windows PCs over the past two months will be award $250,000!

A computer worm is a self-replicating computer program. It uses a network to send copies of itself to other nodes (computers on the network) and it may do so without any user intervention. Unlike a virus, it does not need to attach itself to an existing program. Worms almost always cause at least some harm to the network, if only by consuming bandwidth, whereas viruses almost always corrupt or modify files on a targeted computer.

Deadly Computer Worms:

"Conficker" current worm. Microsoft offer $250,000 reward.
"Sasser" author arrested Microsoft paid $250,000
"Blaster" remain at large.
"MyDoom" remain at large.
"Sobig" remain at large.

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How long before your PC become a "zombie"?

Stuart Isett for The New York Times

A graphic representation of computers captured into a robotic network to spread spam and snoop for financial information.


In about 30 seconds your computer could be “owned.”

According to Vint Cerf, of the 600 million computers that are connected to the internet, up to 150 million are part of botnets, and in most cases the owners of these computers have not the slightest idea what their little beige friend in the study is up to.

Microsoft investigators, who say they are tracking about 1,000 botnets at any given time, say the largest network still controls several million PCs.

Microsoft’s Malicious Software Removal Tool, to find infections of their computers. They should also protect the PCs behind a firewall and install security patches for operating systems and applications.

Botnets have evolved quickly to make detection more difficult. During the last year botnets began using a technique called fast-flux, which involved generating a rapidly changing set of Internet addresses to make the botnet more difficult to locate and disrupt.

the Microsoft team has built elaborate software tools including traps called “honeypots” that are used to detect malware and a system called the Botnet Monitoring and Analysis Tool.

In 2003 and 2004 Microsoft was deeply shaken by a succession of malicious software worm programs with names like “Blaster” and “Sasser,”

“billy gates why do you make this possible? Stop making money and fix your software!!”


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Robotic Networks

Fake YouTube?

A tool that automates the creation of fake YouTube Web sites that can be used to deliver malware and password-cracking services for sale.

YTFakeCreator

The tool does not spread the video link on its own. An attacker must distribute it via e-mail, FTP, IRC channels, peer-to-peer file-sharing networks or CD.

IBM's Internet Security Systems said password cracking is also being commercialized and marketed as "password recovery" services.

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“How were viruses discovered in the past?”

“We can build a similar device representing every virus ever discovered, and it could simultaneously look for them.”

WHAT DOES YOUR VIROCHIP LOOK LIKE?

CAN YOUR CHIP FIND UNDISCOVERE VIRUSES?

IS THAT WHAT YOU DID IN 2003 WITH SARS?

I UNDERSTAND THAT YOUR CHIP HAS BEEN HELPFUL IN DIAGNOSING SOME AVIAN VIRUSES. IS THAT TRUE?

ARE YOU USING THE SAME TECHNOLOGY TO STUDY MALARIA?

HAVE YOU PATENTED YOUR VIROCHIP?

YOU’VE JUST WON THE HEINZ AWARD. WHAT DO YOU PLAN TO DO WITH THE $250,000 PRIZE MONEY?

Answer here.

Which 5 Diseases could cause a pandemic?

Virus in space?

-alive and well on the International Space Station (ISS).

-a virus known as Gammima.AG.

-steal login names for popular online games.

-The laptops infected with the virus were used to run nutritional programs

-It targets a total of 10 games most of which are popular in the Far East such as Maple Story, HuangYi
Online and Talesweaver.

-the virus might have travelled via a flash or USB drive owned by an astronaut and taken into space

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