The US government has got the approval of the courts to allow it to establish a no-fly zone over the Coreflood botnet.
The no-fly zone is a US euphemism for bombing the snot out of anyone you do not like without having to worry too much about taking casualties or the legal problems of going to war yourself.
Armed with that court approval the US Department of Justice and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, the US can use the botnet to kill off its own virus.
The Coreflood virus is believed to be under the bonnet of more than 2.3 million computers. Thanks to the temporary restraining order the FBI and the U.S. Marshal for the District of Connecticut can set up servers at the Internet Systems Consortium or other ISPs that would stop infected computers from continuing to spread the Coreflood virus.
What is unusual is that the order allows coppers to send commands to infected computers that stops the Coreflood virus from running.
Basically if you have the virus it is for your own good that the government uses its control of the botnet to switch it off.
According to IDG, Judge Vanessa Byrant of the US District Court for the District of Connecticut wrote in her judgement that allowing Coreflood to continue running on the infected computers will cause a continuing and substantial injury to the owners and users of the infected computers, exposing them to a loss of privacy and an increased risk of further computer intrusions.
The DOJ and FBI have control of the five servers that ran Coreflood-infected computers. They also acquired 29 domain names used by the Coreflood botnet to communicate with the servers.
Coreflood records computer keystrokes and other private communications, the DOJ said.
Coreflood steals user names, passwords and other private personal and financial information allegedly used by the defendants for a variety of criminal purposes, including stealing funds from compromised accounts.
While it would seem fair enough for the DoJ to take out the botnet, it does raise some questions.
Would 2.3 million people approve of the government using a vulnerability in their computer to gain access to their PC?
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Say dialogue box says:M, hit remove RED x, then same dialouge Box in appearance comes right back, with More attempts to violate core registry, way to get Lovely Redr machine Removed.
So that next dialogue box might State Stronger Gibberish, 1641308, might simple ie, means that once again, idea is to decieve end user & hit O.K. box, or if removed,then another:Bif as ie. only happen so much before considered screwup from isp that might slip into Telco. if misses, might get upon startup, Windows, block, unblock or latter (dude) exchange. surely DAT software send more, honest looking stuff, if hit unblock & Enemy Bot roam your DATA.
Why So much trouble from nerd. Well, like missle, one large bullet can only do so much, if misses. While gun with 15 rounds is much more likely to Hit Target than one with 5 or mere 6 shots. of coursee conservative person stop shooting after Hit is made, Oh, NO FloodCore makes mistake of Stopping Wah Ching Game, Wiley Botnet can glance fire back, Telco can go down or test might end up routed to B.U.M, an Internationale Lawyer/Espionage machine High In S?ky. That pretty Blue One.
Each occurance as attempted Homicide of Bot, Brings on Investigation as to Facts & that Investigation never ends. If isp tries again, adds to Fact Never learned lesson, soN or 88888888 might throw Sno cone to rapidly babbling Sicologist & certified torturologis Whom been on blink since Time Began & looking for warrenty card for multi blade shut down. Impossible senario, except thousands in repair needed & perhaps less stupid. So yet sure effect.
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