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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:08:21 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>[Newsgroups] Buzus Trojan posted to nearly every group</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23316796</link>
<description><![CDATA[Sometime around Nov 1-6th, spammers posted what appeared to be fake porn videos to nearly every binary newsgroup. These would have varying words and phrases, most of which were NWS to some degree, followed by the word "movie", and a random string of 3-5 letters as the poster name.

As an example of one posted to alt.binaries.pictures.anime, I downloaded one from that group called "Faith-play-movie" posted by rvc with an email address of bcmx970 [at] yahoo [dot] com. This was posted at 01:28 on 11/06/2009, and is post #1257811300. It might be worthwhile to find out the NNTP posting host, but I suspect the spammers posted these from multiple pwned PCs on a botnet.

It was a 61.2 Kb zip file, which I uploaded to Virus Total. It had not been previously analyzed there, and only 18 of 40 AV programs detected it. Avira Anti-Vir does detect it, but unless I told it specifically to scan the zip archive, it would not have flagged it as malware. Though a regularly scheduled scan would have picked up on it.

Here is the analysis: http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/d578f7ae30827d80ca94c0e0d07472f20563af5907476b9d23c7095819167922-1257811267

This bit of malware is rather nasty, and some variants are known to infect USB flash drives.

If you use an NZB site that shows the raw content of Usenet without filtering any of it, be aware of these posts. And if you are still downloading headers (or have to in a group to maybe request something or thank a poster, etc.), the random nature of these makes them difficult if not impossible to filter out. You will almost never see this on sites like Newzbin or Merlin's Portal, especially the latter. Merlin has a very strict policy of making sure that anything users there download is clean.

And since I was able to download one of them using Giganews, they aren't being flagged as spam by any of the major Usenet providers. Otherwise they would have gotten purged as Giganews is usually quite good about removing spam from its servers.
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"The trouble with computers, of course, is that they are very sophisticated idiots." - Doctor Who (from Robot)
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<pubDate>2009-11-09 19:39:00</pubDate>
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<title>Supernews offering $9.99/mo. Unlimited for Life</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23077569</link>
<description><![CDATA[Supernews just launched a new site design and service stats.  They are offering $9.99 unlimited Usenet access.  

Here is a post with more details:
http://www.newsgroupreviews.com/blog/2009/09/24/supernews-unlimited-usenet/

- NGR
Newsgroup Reviews]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-09-24 17:07:15</pubDate>
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<title>[BT] demonoid down 9/16/09??</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22875216</link>
<description><![CDATA[Worked fine earlier anyone know what's up?]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-08-16 04:35:48</pubDate>
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<title>[Newsgroups] Can we ask about content?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23309428</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hmm.. not really sure about this forum and content :)

Trying to find the new star trek orginal series 2 blueray or x264 rips anyone have any ideas there names or whereabouts (if there up)?]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-08 09:42:23</pubDate>
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<title>Does anyone still use Peerguardian anymore?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23307006</link>
<description><![CDATA[I was wondering if this program still works. I installed it today but can't get it to update

I have version 2.0.6.4
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...there will be an answer. let it be]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-07 16:18:32</pubDate>
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<title>[Newsgroups] Slow download speed with Giganews</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23312998</link>
<description><![CDATA[Only hitting a maximum of 500kB/s~ on a normally 1200kB/s connection.

I know there's little to do except wait, but I'm curious if it's just me with a problem.

You can see my speedtest results from a close server. A speedtest done at news.giganews.com through the giganews site http://www.giganews.com/performance.html gives me 475kB/s.

Running that speedtest from giganews on my Verizon DSL connection results a near max speed, 349kB/s out of about 375kB/s.

Maybe restart the modem?

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

tracert news.giganews.com

Tracing route to news.giganews.com [216.196.97.131]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     1 ms    1 ms    1 ms  192.168.3.1
  2    13 ms     9 ms    19 ms  10.80.128.1
  3    11 ms    14 ms     6 ms  dtr02knwcwa-gbe-9-10.yakm.wa.charter.com [96.34.104.140] 
4    20 ms    23 ms     9 ms 96-34-104-60.static.unas.or.charter.com [96.34.104.60]  
5    24 ms    16 ms    15 ms  96-34-104-48.static.unas.or.charter.com [96.34.104.48]  
6    20 ms    23 ms    19 ms  96-34-104-20.static.unas.or.charter.com [96.34.104.20] 
7    23 ms    29 ms    23 ms  96-34-104-106.static.unas.or.charter.com [96.34.104.106]  
8    21 ms    21 ms    21 ms  96-34-104-126.static.unas.or.charter.com [96.34.104.126]
9    35 ms    35 ms    36 ms  bbr02snloca-tge-0-0-0-6.snlo.ca.charter.com [96.34.2.60]
10    40 ms    41 ms    41 ms  bbr02snloca-tge-0-0-0-4.snlo.ca.charter.com [96.34.0.0]
11 37 ms 41ms 39 ms  prr01snjscatge-1-2.snjs.ca.charter.com [96.34.3.35]
12    50 ms    38 ms    39 ms  tge9-2.fr3.sjc.llnw.net [69.28.148.129]
13   104 ms   100 ms   100 ms  tge9-4.fr4.ord.llnw.net [69.28.172.78]
14   123 ms   124 ms   124 ms  tge11-3.fr3.lga.llnw.net [69.28.171.194]
15   130 ms   123 ms   124 ms  tge2-4.fr3.iad.llnw.net [69.28.171.157]
16   103 ms   106 ms   107 ms giganews.tge15-3.fr3.iad.llnw.net [69.28.157.34]
17   103 ms   103 ms   104 ms  216.196.97.14
18     *        *        *     Request timed out.
19     *        *        *     Request timed out.
20     *        *        *     Request timed out.
21     *        *        *     Request timed out.
22     *        *        *     Request timed out.
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30     *        *        *     Request timed out.

Trace complete.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-09 03:27:59</pubDate>
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<title>MPAA Tells The FCC: If We Don&#x27;t Stop Piracy, The Internet Wi</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23304914</link>
<description><![CDATA[MPAA Tells The FCC: If We Don't Stop Piracy, The Internet Will Die

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091103/0434486780.shtml]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-07 00:14:06</pubDate>
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<title>No more DVDrip for me</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23287243</link>
<description><![CDATA[I got sick of DVDrips with low quality so right now i am only downloading Blue Ray disks.
How about you?]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-03 21:07:37</pubDate>
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<title>[Newsgroups] Thinking about jumping on newsgroup bandwagon</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23291325</link>
<description><![CDATA[I'm total newby, current torrent/eMule user.  Can someone plz point me to a good FAQ about newsgroups?   Also I was on this site 'http://www.newsgroupreviews.com/' , but number of the sites you can sign on with it is overwhelming for me  :huh: . I've seen some sites offering free trials, which ones are good/safe/'easy to use' ones to try?    

I wouldn't mind paying $10/month for a good 'no-BS' easy to use for newbs newsgroup service.  ;)   ]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-04 15:21:51</pubDate>
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