Stuxnet

ESKIMO

Stuxnet - The 'New' Biggest Threat to the World's Economy or Just Another (Allbeit) Late 'Millenium Bug'?

http://search.bbc.co.uk/search?go=toolbar&uri=%2F&q=Stuxnet

jayme1

it's definately not a millenium bug, and the virus has only been designed infect a cirtain corporate system (eg irans nuclear power stations) so it shouldnt effect home users or other big corprations, and apple will be fully secure

ESKIMO

It's specifically designed to target Microsoft Windows however there is growing concern that it is being developed to hijack other operating systems.

John_Gray

It certainly isn't a millennium bug, because it's misspelled. And ten (or eleven?) years late.

23n1th

This: http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002040.html is a more measured account regarding the malware.

JJ_Egan

Its an old story some people/news agency have only just caught up with it .
If you are running a home computer it has no effect unless you attach to a nuclear reactor or overclock past 300TerraHertz .

jje

ddoris

ESKIMO -IF YOU AREN'T CENTRIFUGING RADIO-ACTIVE STUFF YOU'LL BE OK , probably.
And if you are mucking about with radioactive stuff, just don't use Siemens software -you'll be perfectly OK as well.

ESKIMO

ddoris wrote: »

ESKIMO -IF YOU AREN'T CENTRIFUGING RADIO-ACTIVE STUFF YOU'LL BE OK , probably.
And if you are mucking about with radioactive stuff, just don't use Siemens software -you'll be perfectly OK as well.

Not quite, but i recently 'aquired' some WMDs as a trade and piece offering from aliens who were intrigued to tase raw fish i recently caught. They also said that and i quote; 'Elvis never left the building'. I think i'm halucinating from the Northern Lights.

:eek:

ddoris

Are we going into "Bad taste" ,"meatball machine" or maybe even "Bubba-ho-tep" territory ?

ESKIMO

ddoris wrote: »

Are we going into "Bad taste" ,"meatball machine" or maybe even "Bubba-ho-tep" territory ?

I love the fact that the American's have basically admitted to the fact that they are just normal human beings afterall.

The very thought of the CIA and FBI scratching their heads over this and coming up with; "honestly, we don't really know how to stop it" has to be conceived as hillarious! - This was the nation that put a man on the moon! (Or did they...)

JJ_Egan

The very thought of the CIA and FBI scratching their heads over this and coming up with; "honestly, we don't really know how to stop it" has to be conceived as hillarious! - This was the nation that put a man on the moon! (Or did they..

Which nation would like to fix an Iranian reactor ???


jje