RE: Gadi Busted In Massive Conspiracy

["Randy Abrams" <abrams () eset com>]

That said, later this month (and beyond) the MS Malicious software removal
tool will start tracking infection rates. This is likely to be a fairly good
indicator.

Cheers,

Randy 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org 
> [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Nick FitzGerald
> Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 8:46 PM
> To: funsec () linuxbox org
> Subject: Re: [funsec] Gadi Busted In Massive Conspiracy
>
> Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
>
> > You *do* realize that:
> >
> > a) People won't call the support center until they notice 
> that *.DOC 
> > just went walkies...
> >
> > b) They probably had the phone number in a file called SUPPORT.DOC
> >
> > And hilarity ensues....
>
> It took a few days for the likely real scale of CIH to seep 
> through, with very few reports _on the day itself_.  In that 
> case we are talking about a virus that rendered the victim PC 
> totally useless -- bordering on boat-anchor territory.  I 
> suspect that reports of any effects of this virus' damage 
> will likely be delayed a similar amount (one to two 
> normal-working-week days -- so Monday or Tuesday), _AND_ such 
> reports will greatly "under-represent" the estimates of how 
> many machines were affected, as you'll probably only hear of 
> a fraction of those that were hit and for which no backups 
> are available.  Likewise, machines where although tons of 
> files were trashed, "nothing valuable" was lost, will likely 
> go unreported too...
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Nick FitzGerald
>
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