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Nimda To Strike Again
Seabass55 writes: "Researchers say Nimda is set to propagate again after rechecking Nimda's code. God help all the MS boxes ... again." Looks like the owners of unpatched IIS machines have until 9 p.m. GMT (1 a.m. ET) to get ready. I'd like to see a nice double stockade for the writers of Sircam and Nimda, and maybe some fireants. Update: 09/27 22:45 GMT by T : Temporal confusion -- that's 5:00 GMT, sorry :) Update: 09/28 00:14 GMT by T : Carnage4Life contributes this link to a command-line tool from Microsoft to list patches already installed or still needed, if you think your Windows machine may be vulnerable.
I'd like to see a nice double stockade for the writers of Sircam and Nimda, and maybe some fireants.
Maybe just corn syrup and regular ants for the admins who still haven't patched their servers.
No double stockade and fireants for the IIS creators?
a video game i wrote 10 years ago in Qbasic was just emailed to me today via sircam...
that means that someone actually had it on their computer, and that made me feel all fuzzy.
god bless sircam, and its glorious resurrection and distribution of great software titles.
MARIJUANA, SHROOMS, X: ONLINE?! - E
You're right -- I just updated it to reflect the right time :)
Sorry about that.
timothy
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
I'd like to see something similar for the IIS developers along other selected members of Microsoft.
chongo (was here)
Why do you need to label yourself anyways?
So we know what shelf to sit on?
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As a matter of fact, I am a lawyer. But I play an actor on TV.
Fortunately I was able to boot into Linux and delete all those .eml files, then download a virus remover from McAfee or someplace. But let this be a warning: Before deleting a .eml file, TURN FILE PREVIEWS OFF!
main(c,r){for(r=32;r;) printf(++c>31?c=!r--,"\n":c<r?" ":~c&r?" `":" #");}
nimda and its ilk are the killer apps that will
spark the next information revolution.
I'm looking forward to Microsoft's first foray into creating actual worms, instead of just
providing the infrastructure.
One day we will all look forward to the next MS worm with all the enthusiasm that we now share for the next Windows.
Hackers find security holes. Crackers take advantage of them.
Hackers don't replace their divots and generally carry a large handicap. Crackers are a tasty base for cheese or a light spread.
> I am ready to frigging quit and become an English Teacher fuck the money!
Read up on "run-on sentences" before you quit your day job.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Let's make some profit out of Nimda :)
:"Suicidal" with a kind of Nimda showing.
:)))
Like T-shirts...
"I've been attacked by Nimda and all I got whas this T-shirt"
"Chicks dig Nimda"
"(front:)IIS (back:) you are dumb"
Or posters...
"Internet map of Nimda infected domains"
New 'Inc DeMotivators' poster
We should inform Thinkgeek of this nifty plan
42 + 1 = 42
I've gone through my logs and found quite a few
What I do is go connect to the offending box via smb
Usually they have a printer attached to it so I print out a page of A4 with :
"YOU ARE INFECTED WITH NIMDA, SORT IT OUT
here's how : http://www.antivirus.com"
on it in 72 point text
it's working so far
if they don't have a printer then they usually have an open share that's world writable so I leave text files called
you are infected with nimda.txt
and put the url inside them
that's closed a couple too
(I also found a keygen I'd been looking for so that was a bonus)
I'm not sure if nimda resets the passwords but which might not lead to a surprise of how far you can go with
un : adminsitrator
pw :
have fun
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
Why don't you send the bill to Microsoft? After all it's their software which sucks.
We've know about these exploits for many many years. There are even patches for them, fire retardant materials and bullet proof glass. For some strange reason though, it is still the bottle thrower who is at fault and punished, and not the poor facilities guy who didn't upgrade the bits that make up the windows to something that cannot be attacked.
Why the double standard? In the 'real world' good-enough security is, well, good enough. In the computer world, good-enough security gets laughed at and scorned.
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