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Targeted Worm Hits Kazaa's Network
sh0rtie writes: "Kaspersky Labs and the BBC are reporting that the Fasttrack network that Kazaa uses has been hit by its first targeted worm virus dubbed 'Benjamin.' Is this a clever RIAA creation or that of a mischievous virus writer? I guess we will never know, but the result is that it seems to be bringing unsuspecting users machines to a crawl with full hard drives and clogging up the Fasttrack network with massive amounts of traffic bringing more headaches for ISPs and sysadmins worldwide."
Bwahahahahahahaha.
Those Luddites? I'm surprised they don't use a pen make by plucking a feather from a goose's ass.
Oh that's rich. Thanks for laugh...
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This is not a troll, and it's not offtopic, if Slashdot is truly about "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters":
The greatest evolutionary theorist since Charles Darwin died of cancer at his Manhattan home today... here's the New York Times obituary.
I submitted this story and it was rejected. Apparently Nintendo price cuts and the latest Star Wars box office figures are big news today, but not this.
I suggest that when Slashdot editors reject stories, they put their names on them, so we the submitters can start to figure out who ignores this kind of hugely important news in favor of trivia. Anonymous users are labeled as "cowards"... seems to me the same applies to anonymous editors.
Of course I fully expect this story WILL appear on the front page later tonight, or tomorrow, or better yet, in two or three days, after another 50 people have submitted it, and Taco or Timothy or somebody finally recogizes its significance.
Just wait until Taco finds out that the anonymous web site is actually the Slashdot advertisement program.
Sorry your story got rejected and you don't get any karma, but please. Enough with the ragging on people because they talk about other stuff besides your pet topic.
/. editor who rejected the story, are not.
This is not the first time I (or people I know) have submitted matters of major general interest that have been ignored. I'm not a biologist or paleontologist, so it's not my "pet topic," but I'm smart enough to recognize that Gould was a genius and a major figure in the history of science.
Apparently you, like the nameless
I have just been sent an email, I got it in Kmail on linux, - I've been sent a few virus emails lately, so far been imune to email infection by using linux + mozilla for certain attachments, to get all my mail. .htm which I opened with konqueror - bullshit USA property so I suspect install.exe is a virus
this seems to be from comcast.com
jkastrati from Kaspersky with a W32.Elkern removal tool install.exe an odd "Attachment: 2" and a
Kaspersky sell Linux antivirus
I use nabou, and fairly tihgt Mndrake Security, plus Bastille and portsentry - which plays me a few bars of Little Feat when I get scanned or port connection attempt.
* pointing at all the half-wit, Windoze using, Kazaamazoo users
HA HA!
* pointing at script kiddie who was too stupid to put a TTL on his worm and therefore, max'd out the bandwidth on his site (along with drawing a whole bunch of attention to himself)
HA HA!
int func(int a);
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"Benjamin" is the name of a Biblical character that was part of a large family of 12. He was the only one that stood up for his youngest brother, preventing his other brothers from stoning him to death due to jealousy.
:)
:)
I'm not sure what relation this has to the RIAA and such, but I'm sure you can derive parallels.
Oh, and it's my first name. Good choice!
~/ssh slashdot.org ssh: connect to host slashdot.org port 22: too many beers