Re: New virus seeks 'ransom' for computer files (AFP)

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:40:01 -0500, Technophobe wrote:

> AFP - In the equivalent of a holdup in cyberspace, a new computer bug
> locks up a user's file with encryption and demands a 300-dollar
> "ransom," security experts say.

Ya know, it would sure be nice if you posted a website to go along with
your little announcements. Something like
http://securityresponse.symantec.co...jan.cryzip.html
would be more helpful than your blurb
--

tim

From: "tim" <null@privacy.net>


|
| Ya know, it would sure be nice if you posted a website to go along with
| your little announcements. Something like
| http://securityresponse.symantec.co...jan.cryzip.html
| would be more helpful than your blurb

I totally agree. This idiot keeps posting current events w/o posting a URL. Some of these
posts are Off Topic and that Web Forum to UseNet gateway sucks as well. Example;
"...user's..."

When you get down to it, this is NOT new. We saw this activity in 2005 and it was described
in an IEEE paper ~10 years ago. It's called cryptovirology.

June '05 news article:
http://www.newsfactor.com/news/Rans...id=00200070HC0G


--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm

David H. Lipman wrote:
> From: "tim" <null@privacy.net>
>
>
> |
> | Ya know, it would sure be nice if you posted a website to go along with
> | your little announcements. Something like
> | http://securityresponse.symantec.co...jan.cryzip.html
> | would be more helpful than your blurb
>
> I totally agree. This idiot keeps posting current events w/o posting a URL. Some of these
> posts are Off Topic and that Web Forum to UseNet gateway sucks as well. Example;
> "...user's..."
>
> When you get down to it, this is NOT new. We saw this activity in 2005 and it was described
> in an IEEE paper ~10 years ago. It's called cryptovirology.
>
> June '05 news article:
> http://www.newsfactor.com/news/Rans...id=00200070HC0G
>
> this is the link:
http://news.com.com/Trojan+Cryzip+e...html?tag=cd.top

From: "x" <joesomebody@yahoo.com>


|
http://news.com.com/Trojan+Cryzip+e...html?tag=cd.top

This is what Technophobe should have posted in the first place !

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm

"David H. Lipman" wrote:

> When you get down to it, this is NOT new. ...

Of course not...

> ... We saw this activity in 2005 ...

We did, but...

> .... and it was described
> in an IEEE paper ~10 years ago. It's called cryptovirology.

....like you, the author of that paper must be a youngster, or at least only
"recently" introduced to the field (even ten years ago).

I suggest you Google for something like:

Popp "AIDS information disk"

to get a taste for how long this kind of scam has been around...


--
Nick FitzGerald

On that special day, Nick FitzGerald, (nick@virus-l.demon.co.uk)
said...

> I suggest you Google for something like:
>
> Popp "AIDS information disk"
>
> to get a taste for how long this kind of scam has been around...

Not THAT much old, but still in the same vein:

http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_98226.htm


Gabriele Neukam

Gabriele.Spamfighter.Neukam@t-online.de


--
Ah, Information. A property, too valuable these days, to give it away,
just so, at no cost.

"tim" <null@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:1ltlxlmokmyia$.fxjvz89copzg.dlg@40tude.net...
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:40:01 -0500, Technophobe wrote:
>
>> AFP - In the equivalent of a holdup in cyberspace, a new computer bug
>> locks up a user's file with encryption and demands a 300-dollar
>> "ransom," security experts say.
>
> Ya know, it would sure be nice if you posted a website to go along with
> your little announcements. Something like
> http://securityresponse.symantec.co...jan.cryzip.html
> would be more helpful than your blurb

There has been a move recently in several newsgroups for "someone" to post
volumes of so called "news". It's a kind of half DOS flood. At first you
are not quite sure if it is junk or not but it ends up being just plain
annoying and hence one can consider it to be worthy of being kill filed.
This group has it nowhere as bad as some others.

Slatts