New storm info

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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 12:51 am

Good write up over at Network World http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/102407-storm-worm-security.html

Quote:

A recently discovered capability of Storm is its ability to interrupt applications as they boot up and either shut them down or allow them to appear to boot, but disable them. Users will see that, say, antivirus is turned on, but it isn�t scan for viruses, or as Korman puts it, it is brain-dead. "It�s running, but it�s not doing anything. You can brain-dead anything," he says.

This one still seems to be a bit of a worry still.

I'm happy I'm running Linux these days Very Happy

Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 1:29 am

Ive been running Linux as my desktop now for just over a year. I must be honest when I switch to Vista it seems clunky compared to Ubuntu Gutsy Laughing

Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 2:57 am

To try to keep all "storm" information in one place, I am locking this thread and pointing to

http://bravodelta.servemp3.com/viewtopic.php?t=122522

where all comments about the storm bot can be posted.