Windows Users Fear Korgo Virus

[Bombardier]

from the run-in-circles-scream-and-shout dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A new virus is on the prowl that can infect your Windows XP/2K system and record every key you hit on your keyboard. The keys are then sent back to the virus creator where he/she can steal your passwords and credit card information. The virus named, Korgo, started showing up in the last week of May but it now has at least six different variants. To protect yourself from this nasty virus, Microsoft is urging all users to download the KB835732 Security Update. As with the Sasser worm, you'll get the Korgo virus without even knowing it. It does not arrive by email, but simply by being connected to a network or to the Internet without having a patched machine or a properly configured firewall."

http://slashdot.org/articles/04/06/04/1835...tid=190&tid=201

[Bombardier]

Damn, Windows viruses & worms are getting uglier and uglier. :evil:

I'll bet before the end of 2005, someone will release a truely damaging virus (as if this wasn't bad enough).

Windows users take heed! :read this:

[method77]

click here to get the microsoft patch

[nate]

if you didn't have it patched by now, it's probably already too late

another reason patches are marked "critical"

don't fuck around where worms are concerned

[Wolfie]

It never came up in my critical updates in the last two days.

[method77]

was this included in the last critical update? I mean the one in start>windows update

[nate]

that is the same patch as the "sasser" patch

it came out in april i think

(yep april13, modified may 4)

Edited June 6, 2004 by nate

[Wolfie]

I did get the sasser patch when it came out. I do remember something about the start>windows thing too.