MSBlast Worm

TechieNoob · 11-07-2006, 01:38 AM

Hey everyone. I wanted to pass this on to you guys. If you're wondering what it is, it's a CNET article on how a worm is being spread through the German edition of Wilkpedia.

http://news.com.com/Wikipedia+used+t....html?tag=xtra

eeeboy · 11-07-2006, 11:52 AM

I see...

Kind of same thing happened to me once ...

that days I was addicted to attacking stuffs , was downloading some trojan bot source code like rbot,rxbot,agobot etc. All were sourcecode but rxbot was exe file , I though that was a self extractory zip file. But I was wrong. That made me a zombie.

anyway , wikipedia is somethign different. All trust them.They should be careful about that.

LearnMeTechie · 11-10-2006, 07:06 PM

Yes, I read about that. It was not wikipedia itself that was spreading the virus. There was a link on the page which took you away from the site and it started the download of the virus from there.

lady · 11-14-2006, 03:51 PM

That is so scary to know that can happen just from simply going onto a website that you wouldn't think would have something like that on it. I hope that Wikipedia has done a disclaimer to its user making them aware that this could possibly happen. And I hope they have located the website and successfully removed them from their site.

That is very sad.

sbcal · 11-14-2006, 05:15 PM

I read about that too, I am really not surprise since anyone can edit a Wilkpedia site. Links get added here and there, and by the time, it is detected, it may have spread thousands of times over. This is why to always have your anti-virus up-to-date on your system.