“W64.Rugrat.3344 is a direct-action infector (it exits memory after execution) of IA64 Windows Portable Executable (PE) files – this includes most Windows applications – excluding .dlls. It infects files that are in the same folder as the virus and in all subfolders. It is the first known virus for 64-bit Windows, and it uses the Thread Local Storage structures to execute the viral code. This is an unusual method of executing code. It does not infect 32-bit Portable Executable files, and it will not run on 32-bit Windows platforms. The virus is written in IA64 assembly code,” Symantic reports.
Macintosh unaffected.
Full article here.
Is someone at MDN willing to compile the number of MS viruses over time and put them in a chart (Keynote or AppleWorks). This would be fun to see.
Crap, is there even a 64b Windows version out there yet, and already there is a virus. Bwahahahah!
Virus Stats – You don’t want to max out the capabilities of Keynote or AppleWorks do you? We should have this done on the Big Mac computer at Virginia Tech.
Jimbo- Yes you may have a point.
BTW, this article is off topic but Apple iTunes is mentioned:
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8765723.htm
How many will wager that there are viruses waiting in the wings for Longhorn?
” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”smile” style=”border:0;” /> Anyone want to start a pool on how many in the first week of release? 😀
off topic, but does the whole “shoot the criminal, get an ipod” ad bother anyone?
maybe i’m just being grumpy over the fact that only window users get all the virus fun. lucky them.
they talk of lack of Mac viruses due to”obscurity”How many people use a 64 bit winblows for there to be a virus for? that blows that myth out of the water
Most Popular
TOP 20 Viruses Not a Mac Virus in the top 1,000
[3832]
TrojanProxy.Win32.Bobax.a
[2791]
Backdoor.Throd.a
[2538]
Worm.Win32.Padobot.a
[2133]
TrojanDownloader.BMP.Agent.a
[1235]
Worm.Win32.Sasser.b
[1172]
Worm.Win32.Ladex
[1066]
Worm.Win32.Padobot.b
[1017]
I-Worm.NetSky.q
[938]
I-Worm.Bagle.
[899]
Trojan.Downloader
[886]
Worm.Win32.Sasser.a
[810]
Backdoor.IRC.SdBot
[716]
I-Worm.NetSky.b
[712]
Trojan.Win32.StartPage
[683]
Win32.Parite
[666]
I-Worm.NetSky.d
[651]
Worm.Win32.Lovesan.a
[572]
TrojanDownloader.Win32.Small.hg
[567]
Trojan.Win32.SecondThought.c
[510]
Backdoor.Agobot.3
Buffy, great point. I doubt thurrott will notice it, but it is still a great point.
WOW! Buffy nailed that one RIGHT on the head!!! Good observation there!
Duh! Can someone name me a 64bit windows version???
Hmm, I thought virus writers ignored operating systems with minimal market share, or at least that’s what Thurrott and his buddies have been preaching now for years. Maybe not eh? I guess there goes another FUD ridden wives tale down the tubes…
Sorry, didn’t read Buffy’s post first before posting, but yeah, that nails it right on the head and shows what total idiots most “analysts” are…
LOL, what a shame for the crap-yet-to-come Win64. Exactly right on the money. There are millions more releases of OS X out there and not yet a virus.
Not even ONE Win64 yet publicly out there and viruses are already popping out. LOL.
And there is a 64-bit version of XP, but it’s not widely released as far as I know.
I love this point of view..
There is a list of CURRENT(as of December 2003) Windows viruses at
http://www.f-secure.com/virus-info/wild.html
I can’t think of the last time I saw a Mac virus. Oh yeah, it was the WDEF or MDEF back in 1989-90. : )
You peeps are block heads…
Ladies and gentlemen, please prepare yourselves for our main event. Sputnik and Thurrott will now explain to us why this is good news and how Apple is somehow diminished by this.
That list Larshart linked too is from December. The current real-time list is available here.
windows getting infected is the last stage in the coding process.. now it’s ready for mass consumption!
And here we sit in our Mac office – 2 years, 5 months since we switched from Windows to Mac OSX… That’s 2 years, 5 months without a virus, without dataloss and without a crash.
Thanks, Apple
F-Secure is a Finnish Company.
For the record.
Anyone hear any rumors on mosr? Did some MS virus knock em off?
Same results here, glick, using the copy of w2000 I bought in……..2000. It can be done.
I am the first to admit a) it ain’t easy b) there must be some luck involved.
but there ya go, it can be done, and until there is VPC for g5 I and a million other business users won’t consider a mac. Or those slow old g4 blobs either. Got a solution?
MOSR is here
http://199.105.116.92/
They have mysterious DNS problem