Those funny people who think up nasty computer worms and viruses are at it again.
An article on Yahoo Tech (Downandup/Conficker worm infects 9 million PCs) reports a new computer worm that has already hammered at least 9 million or more computers — “Downandup, Downadup, Kido!, or Conficker (all the same thing), and it primarily seems to be being delivered via infected USB drives.”
The article reports that it works by tricking you into running the virus by modifying the way “autorun” works when you plug in a drive. It also says that ”fixing Downandup isn’t easy. The worm is particularly problematic because of the tricky way it involves the user in installing the software, bypassing auto-installation safeguards, plus its sophisticated way of avoiding detection, as it morphs its code constantly (using randomized elements) to make traditional, signature-based detection almost impossible.”
Gee, that’s great.
You know, I started to think that you and me and all the other computer users out there probably have a lot of really important things to worry about in our lives, and yet now we have to deal with this crap on top of it. Having your computer jacked up is no fun.
You know what? I wish we could make a worm for all the pricks who make these computer worms and viruses.
Here’s how our worm would work: Every time one of these virus/worm geeks sat in his chair and tried to log into his computer, he’d get the wonderful sensation of a big lead pipe being shoved up his ass at warp speed.
That’s a PIPE JOB I’d like to see.
