Cyber crime booms in 2004 - 100,000+ ComputerViruses in 2004

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[Happy2BMe]

100,000 divided by 365 =

[Happy2BMe]

BOTNET - ping.

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Mr Hogan said worm writers were more interested in recruiting PCs to take part in "bot nets" that can be used to send out spam or to mount attacks on websites.

[Izzy Dunne]

2004 was the best-ever year for the capture, arrest and sentencing of virus writers

In total, eight virus writers were arrested

[Happy2BMe]

Are we impressed yet?

[KoRn]

Everyone should sit down and write a THANK YOU letter to Bill Gates for his garbage products.

[MeekOneGOP]

I din't do it! :^O

:^)

[1LongTimeLurker]

And yet at present time there are 60 viruses that can impact Mac's, and none of them will affect OS X.

100,000 or zero, tough choice.

[1LongTimeLurker]

Everyone should sit down and write a THANK YOU letter to Bill Gates for his garbage products.

I did exactly that when I traded my Dell laptop for a PowerBook and my Dell PC for an iMac.

[KoRn]

"I did exactly that when I traded my Dell laptop for a PowerBook and my Dell PC for an iMac."

I like Linux myself, but the two are related on a core level. Mac and Linux.

[WKB]

Does anyone know the name of the virus or whatever it is that will:
Shutdown Outlook express using the MSOERES.DLL file
while denying acess to "add or remove programs"
while shutting down Windows Media Player
while stopping all downloads while
screwing up more things that I can think of right now?
If you do I'll pay good money for the answer.

[phoenix0468]

I see a market for someone who can take Linux to the next level. I see The Linspire people as doing a good deal towards offering alternatives, but there could be more done. I would like to make an offer. Everyone who owns a computer could send me $10. I would then take that money and create a brand new operating system with internet access for free, email client, and word processor, spreadsheet, and database capabitlities. All for the cost of a harddrive (about $200). You would recieve lifetime support, and lifetime upgrades to your software. You could also create low cost task specific systems. I.E. gaming systems, graphics systems, audio file creation systems, etc. etc. These systems could come with preinstalled software that automatically starts at boot time.

[KoRn]

The only thing stopping Linux from destroying Windows in the area of desktop home users is hardware support. The hardware support keeps getting better, but when it comes to things like digital cameras Linux won't pick them up. It's more the camera manufacturers fault them the Linux community.

As for your offer, I'll do it for $5. Send it to me! I'm not a programmer, but I'll find some in India who will put it together.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

A good anti-virus program as well as one that detects spyware, a firewall and strong browser security settings are at least half the battle. And don't open e-mail attachments, I did a few years back and will never make that mistake again.

[StockAyatollah]

None of them effect the PlayStation or Game Cube OSes either. I guess its nice to have a toy computer like a Mac.

[B4Ranch]

I'll let you decide if you need the name of the virus to fix the problem.

http://www.google.com/search?q=Outlook+express++MSOERES.DLL++virus+named&btnG=Search&hl=en&lr=

[D-fendr]

mark

[edchambers]

Everyone should sit down and write a THANK YOU letter to Bill Gates for his garbage products.

Oh stop it already, why does everyone think it's Bill Gates personal responsibility to secure their private property?At the moment I currently have 5, knock on wood virus free PCs running Windows with free readily available security software.If someone steals or vandalizes your car is it the automaker's fault?

[edchambers]

The only thing stopping Linux from destroying Windows in the area of desktop home users is hardware support.

A simpler install would be helpfull,I have the knoppix CD and it easily boots and runs from a CD but their HD install is quite another story.

[dennisw]

I searched with google and could find no specific virus to blame. What might work in WindowsXP is to download a fresh (uncorrupted) version of this msoeres.dll from http://www.dlldump.com/download-dll-files.php/dllfiles/M/msoeres.dll/download.html and insert it in the two places where it's supposed to be----->

C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache

and

C:\Program Files\Outlook Express



Why not kill off all viruses in your system? Then repair Outlook Express via windows repair on your XP disc and re-installing service packs SP2 or SP1 with updates. If you have broadband you can download these service packs all at once. Download is about 130mb.SP2 is more.

In XP repair looks pretty easy and you will be updating it at the same time. As a general rule, make sure OE is updated to the max with available patches


http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q318378

[Reaganwuzthebest]

Oh stop it already, why does everyone think it's Bill Gates personal responsibility to secure their private property?

Actually I think XP SP2 went a little too far in the handholding. All it takes to keep the computer secure is to make use of the tools available, many of them free and a little common sense.