Zero Day Attack Underway

[meierjn]

Just letting everyone know there is a zero day vulnerability attack underway on the Internet. The threat level has been raised to Critical. Please ensure that your computers are up to date (patched) and if you are using IE make sure you have IE 7 or 8 installed. These versions will enable "data execution prevention" by default. If you have enabled it please turn it back on. Also, make sure your AV signatures are up to date. Thiss is not a hoax. Have a good weekend...

McAfee Threat Center

 

[sledidiot]

how do we know this is not a trap? you might be leading us into a virus?

 

[meierjn]

how do we know this is not a trap? you might be leading us into a virus?

Google it!

 

[sledidiot]

Google it!

maybe you are to?

 

[rknight111]

how do we know this is not a trap? you might be leading us into a virus?

I a member that has 0 posts and had posted some link like the one above then I would be cautious. Any bad links are usually caught my the moderators right away, or they are reported to us.

 

[meierjn]

Here is another alert from Trend:

Trend Micro Virus Information, virus alerts, advisories, Top 10, antivirus, worm, trojan, macro, free, Threat Encyclopedia

 

[sldgy]

how do we know this is not a trap? you might be leading us into a virus?

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD2VfByTHz4[/media]

 

[khaos_]

maybe you are to?

Quit giving us Saskatchewan people a bad rep. You should read your posts, you sound like such a dork. Hence the name sledidiot i guess.

 

[meierjn]

The attack was discovered on the 12th (as far as I can tell). MS "Patch Tuesday". I wonder how long it will take MS to release a fix?

 

[CUSO]

Buy a MAC and never worry.
The amount I spent in the last 10 years on Virus protection, time to find drivers, etc. would have paid off my macbook, and then some.

 

[pipes]

Buy a MAC and never worry.
The amount I spent in the last 10 years on Virus protection, time to find drivers, etc. would have paid off my macbook, and then some.

you never heard of the Mac attack?

 

[CUSO]

you never heard of the Mac attack?

bring it on.. I heard of a big mac attack,,,

every software company and their dog can make anything for a PC. Not the same for Apple...

 

[sledidiot]

Quit giving us Saskatchewan people a bad rep. You should read your posts, you sound like such a dork. Hence the name sledidiot i guess.

don't think i need to give you a bad name! where ever your from.

 

[khaos_]

don't think i need to give you a bad name! where ever your from.

Alright, good one....yooooouuuuuuurrrrrrr soooooooo smart.

Duh...why should I listen to you.


Duh, maybe your in on it too.

Duh...

 

[rknight111]

Please peeps this is about a virus warning info.

 

[polcat]

Quit giving us Saskatchewan people a bad rep. You should read your posts, you sound like such a dork. Hence the name sledidiot i guess.

Alright, good one....yooooouuuuuuurrrrrrr soooooooo smart.

Duh...why should I listen to you.


Duh, maybe your in on it too.

Duh...

between this one and the fleury thread you seem a little cranky.
hope you got some sleep.

 

[meierjn]

It seems like the Chinese government may have been the originators of the attack. Google may have pissed off the "Great Firewall of China" by allowing some restricted content viewable to the Chinese people. Some of the attacks on Google were directed at some human activists Gmail accounts. See the links below:

IE zero-day used in Chinese cyber assault on 34 firms ? The Register

 

[meierjn]

MS released a patch to address this vulnerability late this week. To install run the automatic updates and ensure all "critical updates" are installed. Have a good weekend!

 

[Modman]

bring it on.. I heard of a big mac attack,,,

every software company and their dog can make anything for a PC. Not the same for Apple...

MAC is great - wife bought a MAC for her photo stuff at home, problem is now that I disconnected the old compy, no more Excel or Word/PP so now I can't work from home. Yes you can buy the software but its not the same and its just more $$$. I love the MAC for editing vids and photos though, miles ahead.

 

[imdoo'n]

MAC is great - wife bought a MAC for her photo stuff at home, problem is now that I disconnected the old compy, no more Excel or Word/PP so now I can't work from home. Yes you can buy the software but its not the same and its just more $$$. I love the MAC for editing vids and photos though, miles ahead.

thats good, working from home is highly overated.