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 Post subject: Setup a boinc project to fix what a virus breaks?
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Does anyone here follow virus news?

There was a virus released just recently that encrypts documents on your hard drives using a 1024 bit RSA key. There's no way to undo it yet.

Kaspersky Labs (the best AV program out there) is looking for a distributed project to crack the key.

Who wants to set up a new boinc project? :)

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/11/1358246
http://forum.kaspersky.com/index.php?showtopic=71652

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Ignore this thread now. The SHA-1 Collision Search Graz project has surfaced on Kaspersky's forums now at http://forum.kaspersky.com/index.php?sh ... 0&start=20

I will devote a lot of boxes to this cause if SHA-1 picks it up. It'll help me in my job if my clients ever get hit with the virus.

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If you come up with an idea for a project that you would like to create, I'll be glad to lend assistance any way I can.

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well i popped in to have a look see about the virus stuff and found the encryption story instead. Ahhh well.. i'll mention this anyway.

Ive just finished doing a virus scan of my comp and it turns out theres a bunch of trojan horse clicker,qrc lurking on my machine. part of the file address is boinc_master. Its pretty annoying given that i let my comp be used for the extra crunching power and all. Ive since uninstalled all the boinc stuff and I'm about to dump some 55 infections. untill the boinc outfit cleans things up i'll not be so forth giving in future. :evil:

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well i popped in to have a look see about the virus stuff and found the encryption story instead. Ahhh well.. i'll mention this anyway.

Ive just finished doing a virus scan of my comp and it turns out theres a bunch of trojan horse clicker,qrc lurking on my machine. part of the file address is boinc_master. Its pretty annoying given that i let my comp be used for the extra crunching power and all. Ive since uninstalled all the boinc stuff and I'm about to dump some 55 infections. untill the boinc outfit cleans things up i'll not be so forth giving in future. :evil:

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I'm willing to bet that either your virus scanner is giving you "false positives" for boinc project files or you got something unrelated to boinc that found the boinc directories and put itself in there. There are no boinc projects giving out viruses or have anything remotely close to viruses.

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