Do we have a Boinc virus?

Not quite true. For instance, Kaspersky Lab calls it "Trusted riskware - not-a-virus:NetTool.Win32.Calc-SETI@Home". And many other might stuff it harder. Here is Kaspersky's list: http://www.viruslist.com/en/find?search_mode=full&words=seti

Peter

While we're on the subject, the Kama Sutra Worm is expected to activate tomorrow on the 3rd of February. Currently it is estimated that over 600,000 computers world wide are infected. The users are unaware of the infection, which the payload promises free porno pixs, then nothing happens. It just sits and waits. It also has the ability of disabling many AVP's. As you can see, Kaspersky lists this as a severe risk infection.

Test your AVP using http://www.eicar.com/anti_virus_test_file.htm test string. If that doesn't trigger a virus warning, your AVP is possibly compromisesd.
Update your AVP .dat files now.
Run a full system scan, now.
Make clean backups now.

Link to CNN plain language article about the Kama Sutra Worm.

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Account frozen...

While we're on the subject, the Kama Sutra Worm is expected to activate tomorrow on the 3rd of February. Currently it is estimated that over 600,000 computers world wide are infected. The users are unaware of the infection, which the payload promises free porno pixs, then nothing happens. It just sits and waits. It also has the ability of disabling many AVP's. As you can see, Kaspersky lists this as a severe risk infection.

Test your AVP using http://www.eicar.com/anti_virus_test_file.htm test string. If that doesn't trigger a virus warning, your AVP is possibly compromisesd.
Update your AVP .dat files now.
Run a full system scan, now.
Make clean backups now.

Link to CNN plain language article about the Kama Sutra Worm.

<snip>
<rant>
It's been three centuries since the Greeks took the city of Troy.

Why haven't we learned to leave the horse outside the city?

Free porn indeed! Think of this as evolution in action.

I'll get off my soapbox now.
</rant>

While we're on the subject, the Kama Sutra Worm is expected to activate tomorrow on the 3rd of February. Currently it is estimated that over 600,000 computers world wide are infected. The users are unaware of the infection, which the payload promises free porno pixs, then nothing happens. It just sits and waits. It also has the ability of disabling many AVP's. As you can see, Kaspersky lists this as a severe risk infection.

Test your AVP using http://www.eicar.com/anti_virus_test_file.htm test string. If that doesn't trigger a virus warning, your AVP is possibly compromisesd.
Update your AVP .dat files now.
Run a full system scan, now.
Make clean backups now.

Link to CNN plain language article about the Kama Sutra Worm.

<rant>
It's been three centuries since the Greeks took the city of Troy.

Why haven't we learned to leave the horse outside the city?

Free porn indeed! Think of this as evolution in action.

I'll get off my soapbox now.
</rant>

FYI ;0)


Description:
The earliest settlement at Troy was in the Early Bronze Age at ca. 3000 B.C. This small fortified settlement was destroyed by fire and was followed by Troy II (2500-2200 B.C.), which Schliemann incorrectly believed to have been the city of Priam. Settlement continued throughout the Bronze Age at the site. The latest prehistoric levels are Troy VI (1800-1275 B.C.) and Troy VII (1275-1100 B.C.) and scholars debate which of these levels represent the city of Priam and scene of the Trojan War.

Following the end of the Late Bronze Age there was a 400 year hiatus at the site until it was resettled at ca. 700 B.C. by Greek colonists, possibly from Lesbos or Tenedos. The Early Iron Age city (Troy VIII) was founded with the name Ilion and believed at the time to be the site of Homeric Troy. The city had little political power, but was symbolically important. It was under Persian control from the 6th century B.C. until the liberation of Asia Minor by Alexander the Great in 334 B.C.

In 480 B.C. Xerxes halted at Troy to sacrifice a thousand oxen before crossing the Hellespont into Greece. In 334 B.C. Alexander went to Troy immediately after crossing into Asia Minor to make an offering. Following the death of Alexander in 323 B.C., his successor in Thrace had a new temple of Athena built at the city. Julius Caesar, who believed himself to be a direct descendant of Priam, visited the city and gave it immunity from taxation. In the reign of Augustus the city and the sanctuary of Athena under went a large rebuilding program. Constantine considered Troy as a possible site for his new capital before chosing Byzantium, and as late as A.D. 355 the site was visited by the emperor Julian. By the 4th century A.D., however, the site was little more than a small farming community and by the 12th century A.D. it was completely abandoned.

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And the beat goes on
Sonny and Cher

BOINC Wiki

Aren't the stats basically meaningless anyway?
(I am simply astounded how much time ppl appear to put into thinking about them and complaining.)
Bottom line, I think, is this: you can have all the credits in the world that you want, and still not be one of the ppl credited with crunching a work unit with a good strong signal candidate. By running just 2 computers, I am in the running for that.

Here some Info about the skills of C. Giese

Ausbildung: Diplom-Informatiker

Berufserfahrung:NetAPI-Entwicklung Microsoft
Leiter Systemmangement des Rechenzentrums RUBIN im Bundesverteidigungsministerium

found at : http://elearn.prokoda.de/Hall/cgiese.htm



JR

Here some Info about the skills of C. Giese

Ausbildung: Diplom-Informatiker

Berufserfahrung:NetAPI-Entwicklung Microsoft
Leiter Systemmangement des Rechenzentrums RUBIN im Bundesverteidigungsministerium

found at : http://elearn.prokoda.de/Hall/cgiese.htm

JR

Training: Diploma computer scientist Berufserfahrung:NetAPI Berufserfahrung:NetAPI-Entwicklung Microsoft leader Systemmangement of the computing centre RUBY in the Federal Ministry of Defense

While we're on the subject, the Kama Sutra Worm is expected to activate tomorrow on the 3rd of February. Currently it is estimated that over 600,000 computers world wide are infected. The users are unaware of the infection, which the payload promises free porno pixs, then nothing happens. It just sits and waits. It also has the ability of disabling many AVP's. As you can see, Kaspersky lists this as a severe risk infection.

Test your AVP using http://www.eicar.com/anti_virus_test_file.htm test string. If that doesn't trigger a virus warning, your AVP is possibly compromisesd.
Update your AVP .dat files now.
Run a full system scan, now.
Make clean backups now.

Link to CNN plain language article about the Kama Sutra Worm.

<rant>
It's been three centuries since the Greeks took the city of Troy.

Why haven't we learned to leave the horse outside the city?

Free porn indeed! Think of this as evolution in action.

I'll get off my soapbox now.
</rant>

3 Centuries?

We should know by now that not everything is as it seems, and it's really best to leave the damn Trojan Horses alone.

It shouldn't take 300 years to learn that lesson, even if the right number is closer to 3000.

It will verride your current install of boinc. I lost a few months of processing. One day I go look at boinc to find it was processing for another account.

I'm still looking for the software that plugged it into my system.


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Theres a Fine Line between Hobby and Mental Illness.

maybe it would be a good idea to include to BOINC software some protection option, that won't let processing any BOINC application if there is no folder called projects, or file boincmgr.exe, or even boinc.exe...

it would not make cheating impossible, but for sure it would make it harder, and easier to detect...
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maybe it would be a good idea to include to BOINC software some protection option, that won't let processing any BOINC application if there is no folder called projects, or file boincmgr.exe, or even boinc.exe...

it would not make cheating impossible, but for sure it would make it harder, and easier to detect...

It will verride your current install of boinc. I lost a few months of processing. One day I go look at boinc to find it was processing for another account.

I'm still looking for the software that plugged it into my system.

[sarcasm]

Yet another BOINC Milestone!

[/sarcasm]

:-D
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