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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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You really, really overestimate me, my man. All I can do is plug stuff into motherboards and overclock at an amateur level.......
........hacking!! I don't even know how to set up a simple proxy!!
Code, programming, software development, website creation.....all a total mystery to me. |
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kprrok
Joined: 06 Apr 2004
Location: KC
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I know nothing about any attacks that may or may not have taken place.
Heck, I'm with eamo in that I don't even know how proxys work. |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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Ain't about proxies, and these types of attacks are easy to mount, hard to pin and Korea is an easy target.
Infect machines, they become bots, flood a website with requests until servers overload and shutdown.
No big deal and more than likely, it was either the Norks or Chinese. Harmless, but annoying. |
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Binch Lover
Joined: 25 Jul 2005
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I searched a bit about this, but I couldn't find any good answer to this question:
How does it infect the computers in the first place? By people clicking on spam messages or what??
It would be nice if news reports could indicate how to avoid becoming infected. |
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ernie
Joined: 05 Aug 2006
Location: asdfghjk
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whenever i hear the term 'cyberterror' i picture in my head a bunch of power hungry homicidal robots raping and pillaging everything in sight but the reality of the situation is disappointingly mundane. since when did being unable to update your facebook page or having to use your imagination to finish whacking count as terrorism?
many DDoS attacks (distributed denial of service) use trojans to infiltrate your computer, and then spread throughout the network creating more and more 'zombies' or 'bots', lying dormant until the coordinated attack is triggered. the attack works by using the zombie army to flood the intended victim web server with false attempts to access it, creating a logjam which prevents legitimate users from gaining access. kind of like a bunch of protesters blocking the entrance to a store or workplace.
hmmm... a zombie army does sound kinda cool now that i think about it. |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Binch Lover wrote: |
I searched a bit about this, but I couldn't find any good answer to this question:
How does it infect the computers in the first place? By people clicking on spam messages or what??
It would be nice if news reports could indicate how to avoid becoming infected. |
Computards download software from unknown/unreliable sources and they run these without a firewall (blocking things from getting out) and have no anti-virus. This is fertile ground for zombification.
Korea's connectivity is directly proportional to the populations' ignorance regarding computers and the internet. Every single computer I have used that has a Korean behind it 90% of the time is infected with all manner of spyware/adware/malware and virii. They click "yes" to every popup/active x control that tries to load and don't think about where they get their software. They run Ahnlabs, which is proven ineffective, have no idea what a firewall is...it never ends. Every "don't" you could think of, they typically do.
I'm surprised there aren't more attacks of this nature here; as I said, it is fertile ground for this type of thing. |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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| Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 11:35 pm Post subject: |
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Computards download software from unknown/unreliable sources and they run these without a firewall (blocking things from getting out) and have no anti-virus. This is fertile ground for zombification.
Korea's connectivity is directly proportional to the populations' ignorance regarding computers and the internet. Every single computer I have used that has a Korean behind it 90% of the time is infected with all manner of spyware/adware/malware and virii. They click "yes" to every popup/active x control that tries to load and don't think about where they get their software. They run Ahnlabs, which is proven ineffective, have no idea what a firewall is...it never ends. Every "don't" you could think of, they typically do.
I'm surprised there aren't more attacks of this nature here; as I said, it is fertile ground for this type of thing. |
Okay, I can honestly say that I agree 1,000,000 percent. I'm no PC master, but come on people!
I work part-time at a hagwon (great money!!!!) and their PCs are riddled (damn, did I spell that right?) with viri and crap. Needless to say, the next day, I went in 2 hours early and beefed up the two PCs I use there. Now, No more problems. Though, I can't say that about the other PCs there!  |
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mack the knife
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: standing right behind you...
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Understatement of the New Millenium. They have V3 installed on every computer and think they're safe; protected by a program that is little more than a virus itself. |
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IlIlNine
Joined: 15 Jun 2005
Location: Gunpo, Gyonggi, SoKo
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Sorry, was bored.  |
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