Virus That Destroys Everything is there a way to stop it?

naturalphenomen · Aug 7, 2010

I work at walmart and i ran into this dude tonight. He knew allot about computers and said windows 7 is a piece of crap get ubuntu or linix. Than i asked why he said he helped invent a virus that gets into your computer goes into the registry and overclocks your CPU and GPU which makes them burn up along with destroying your hard drive making it usable but caries the virus even after formating. He said linix is unaffected by it.

CAN THIS BE REAL OR NOT? im freaking out

the name of the virus started with a J, Jarden or somthing

niemiro · Aug 8, 2010

Hello,

Unfortunately, this could easily be real, but I am not too worried. Everything that you have said has been used by viruses, and this is just an amalgamation of many different viruses.

Windows 7 is not a bad OS. Yes, it is targeted, because it is Windows, and made by Microsoft, but Apple Macs and Linux do get many viruses, and just as bad. My best advice to you is to follow good security guidelines, and then you will be absolutely fine on Windows.

This virus sounds like it targets the hardware, and will not have a lot of sophisticated cloaking and removal protection, which is good. It sounds to me like a good real-time, updated AV will very easily block this malware, before you even realise it, and before it has time to infect you.

The method viruses use to re-infect after a format is to infect the MBR. However, this can be fixed using specialist tools under supervision, so this does not worry me.

One thing if it does get on to your system. All of your clocks would have to be turned back down by the AV, and so a good AV would turn them back down and save your hardware, a bad AV will remove the malicious code, but will not fix the clocks, and your hardware would be dead. This would split the good and bad AVs.

Therefore, it won't be long before a malware removal expert or a company like Symantec will release a specialist tool for removal, to remove it, and fix the clocks properly for all.

A hard disk is damaged by wiping Sector 0. This is instant, and irreparable. However, overclocking until meltdown is not instant (though is irreparable). I now see a problem. If you immediately break the hard disk, then you won't be able to overclock until meltdown. If you overclock, then it meltsdown, then you will not have time to finish off the hard disk. So, to co-ordinate these is very difficult, bordering on impossible.

Therefore, I think this will slip in and out of fashion, if it even exists at all. Follow good security guidelines, and you will be protected from this.

Just my thoughts!

Richard

richc46 · Aug 8, 2010

As always, Richard has given good information. Based upon my experience and gut feeling, however, this is not a true virus. It is so similar to so many hoaxes that I have read about and been warned about. If you had the actual name, we could look it up to be certain.

niemiro · Aug 8, 2010

Although individually it does work, and has been vaguely thought through, the sector 0 and clocks speeds snag is rather large, and it probably is a hoax, though you could still get the same results, and worse, by contracting several specific pieces of malware, rather than just this one.

I am inclined to believe Richard above, that it is a hoax.

Richard

Shadowjk · Aug 8, 2010

niemiro said:
Hello,

Unfortunately, this could easily be real, but I am not too worried. Everything that you have said has been used by viruses, and this is just an amalgamation of many different viruses.

Windows 7 is not a bad OS. Yes, it is targeted, because it is Windows, and made by Microsoft, but Apple Macs and Linux do get many viruses, and just as bad. My best advice to you is to follow good security guidelines, and then you will be absolutely fine on Windows.

This virus sounds like it targets the hardware, and will not have a lot of sophisticated cloaking and removal protection, which is good. It sounds to me like a good real-time, updated AV will very easily block this malware, before you even realise it, and before it has time to infect you.

The method viruses use to re-infect after a format is to infect the MBR. However, this can be fixed using specialist tools under supervision, so this does not worry me.

One thing if it does get on to your system. All of your clocks would have to be turned back down by the AV, and so a good AV would turn them back down and save your hardware, a bad AV will remove the malicious code, but will not fix the clocks, and your hardware would be dead. This would split the good and bad AVs.

Therefore, it won't be long before a malware removal expert or a company like Symantec will release a specialist tool for removal, to remove it, and fix the clocks properly for all.

A hard disk is damaged by wiping Sector 0. This is instant, and irreparable. However, overclocking until meltdown is not instant (though is irreparable). I now see a problem. If you immediately break the hard disk, then you won't be able to overclock until meltdown. If you overclock, then it meltsdown, then you will not have time to finish off the hard disk. So, to co-ordinate these is very difficult, bordering on impossible.

Therefore, I think this will slip in and out of fashion, if it even exists at all. Follow good security guidelines, and you will be protected from this.

Just my thoughts!

Richard

Really Good Post I have to rep it

niemiro · Aug 8, 2010

Shadowjk said:
Really Good Post I have to rep it

Thanks so much. Very well done on your Guru badge! Probably old news by now, but with a holiday, and me not being very observant, I have managed to miss it!

naturalphenomen · Aug 8, 2010

ill try to remember the name of it

richc46 · Aug 8, 2010

If you get the name we will know if it is a hoax or not.

MWRed · Aug 8, 2010

Theoretically, It's possible, but it sounds like, for whatever reason, he attempted to scare you into a different OS. I think it's just someone trying to be "cool". It seems pretty far fetched that just"some guy" would say something about doing it, much less admit it and tell exactly what it does.

Kinda sounds like a real life type of scare-ware, trying to get people to buy something else. Now, instead of hijacking a web page you're on, they hijack you in a store,lol.

naturalphenomen · Aug 8, 2010

lol thats funny, but im still going to upgrade my fire wall soon

niemiro · Aug 9, 2010

naturalphenomen said:
lol thats funny, but im still going to upgrade my fire wall soon

This one is more for the AV rather than the FW, but there is a statistic (albeit very slightly dodgy) that you get random hacking attempt or virus every 15 seconds that your firewall repels.

Richard

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