McAfee: Cold War-Style Computer Attack Likely

[exfileme]

It's the Cold War again, only this time it's with virtual rockets focused on our hard drives.

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[ubernoobie]

wtf? now i need like kevlar for my harddrive now? wow

 

[starhoof]

like that one time I got stuck on on the red light on my base for like 10minutes, i swear someone from other country could have hacked traffic light server

 

[cheepstuff]

awwww.... i was just finished preparing for the resistance
*looks at his closet full of guns*

 

[Impulse Fire911]

im confident my windows 95 firewall will save me

 

[leafblower29]

Nuclear binary bombs?

 

[millerm84]

In other news today McAfee's stock rose 8% today on an unexplained boost in sales. Up next Norton Anti-virus can exercise the deamons from your PC more at 11.

 

[ElectroGoofy]

Until that happens, McAgee said that future cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure "could be devastating."

What's McAgee?

 

[mcreskiller]

[citation][nom]cheepstuff[/nom]awwww.... i was just finished preparing for the resistance*looks at his closet full of guns*[/citation]
Lol same.. "looks at closet full of bow and arrows and also guns" looks like we gota stock up on computer guns?

 

[keither5150]

Like McAfee can stop it.

Maybe they should start selling a cure for the H1N1 virus.

 

[keither5150]

They are warning of attacks that have been around for close to 10 years.

If the power and utility companies can't function without the internet..... then stupid is as stupid does.

Hopefully the US govt. does not rely on the internets for their communication. They have only had 9 years to prepare.

A young teenager from Montreal brought some internet giants to their knees. What do you think a bunch of smart Chinese computer geeks can do. Oh by the way.... you can rent botnets from the Russians if the Chinese does not have enough already.

The problem is that the people running the country have no idea about technology. The internets.... I rest my case.

However Obama seems to be a little more current.

All essential services should have a plan in place to operate without the internet. It's only been 9 years.

 

[Guest]

Funny that McAfee knows this but still cant stop a simple tracking cookie.

 

[cashews]

I've heard rumours that the government has been stockpiling computers that can play Crysis..we should all be worried.

 

[brendano257]

"Oh it's not that bad.....I mean ITS HORRIBLE! You must buy our product to be protected!"

Marketing at its best/worst depending on your point of view...

Somehow my computer has never found an apocalyptic doom from only using freeware antivirus, I'll never pay for McAffee.

 

[starryman]

McAffee and Norton are more of a problem than viruses and malware could ever be. There's no doubt in my mind that a good measure of viruses stem from those SOBs. Prove me wrong someone.

 

[okibrian]

Hey, just don't sell our AV outside the US.

 

[DGriffin]

...its easy.. if there ends up being an issue.. from say Russia... everybody blocks Russia (they do this sort of thing with spam)... then Russia doesn't get any more google.. or facebook.. or anything hahahaha... im not worried

 

[Supertrek32]

News Headlines:

Virus of Unknown Origin or Purpose Spreading Throughout Internet
*Month later*
P//Bomb Virus Believed of Chinese or Korean Origin
*Week later*
P//Bomb Virus Deletes ALL Internet Porn
*Day later*
RIOTS IN THE STREETS! MASS HYSTERIA OVER LOSS OF PORN!
*Day later*
Tensions Growing. WHO IS TO BLAME FOR THIS ATROCITY?!
*Next day*
America Blames China. China Blames Korea. Korea Blames Russia. Russia Blames Georgia. Georgia Blames Iraq. Iraq Blames Pakistan. Pakistan Blames India. India Blames Homeless Man. Homeless Man Blames America. All Nations Out For Blood.
*Nuclear Holocaust*

 

[Guest]

If i would launch an attack i would hirst kill the AV companies.
Even better if you infect the AV update files. LOL
Imagine Millions of users getting an update that destroys their machines as AV software ussualy have full access to your files.

 

[gaevs]

And after the War is over.. the goverment restores the data from backups.. and a new day has born... stupid, a good system administrator can restore systems in les than 10 minutes..