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1 Year Anniversary of Nimda Outbreak
dots and loops writes "Today marks one year to the date that the nimda
worm began making its way across the Internet." Hey, speaking of hilarious worms, I'm still getting 5-10 klez virus's a day! Yay Security!
happy birthday to nimda..
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happy birthday to nimda
happy birthday you iis infecting worm...
happy birthday to you...
may you make anti virus vendors riiiiiiccchhh
Its hard to believe that its been one year and I'm still getting scans on my apache server. Are there really that many braindead admins??
Using your sig line to advertise for friends is lame.
I work for a school district, and I swear, everyone pronounces it nimBA - it drives me crazy.
Anyway, yeah, last year around this time was fun. Thanks for dredging up those memories.
We had just brought in a bunch of dot-com reject sys admins.
Suddenly you hear everyone talking about the NAMBLA virus. Seriously, it was a spoonerism, or whatever. But everyone was running around blaming NAMBLA. Finally we realized it was NIMDA.
Turns out there was a dude that got smoked out because he had kiddie porn on his PC. We just fired him.
But if it weren't for this virus, we'd wouldn't have had the witch hunt that found this perv.
And it's probably no coincidence that slashdot stats report 365days uptime today.
M@
Krispy Cream is people
Aha... Now I understand the meaning of that phrase...
That begs the question: what has been the most long-lived virus/worm/trojan so far?
That's easy -- MAKE MONEY FAST!
Whilst fornicating in bed
Felt something new
Saying, "Melissa, is that you?"
And found Bill Gates naked, instead.
--Chag
I think I've heard of a similar program before. I might have even used it... Hmm, what was that program?
Oh, yeah! grep
(sorry man, I'm just pokin' fun)
Does this mean I have to write another one?
NO! NO! Please don't mod me, I'm too young to die a troll. *click* Oh the pain, the pain...
Dear hikeran,
It has come to our attention that you published a portion of our copyrighted material. Namely the lyrics to the popular [but copyrighted] song : 'Happy Birthday To You'.
We would ask that you refrain from repeating this action and ask that you make the best effort to remove such violations made by you.
Should this matter be brought before us again we will demand a license fee payable to Warner Brothers.
The work has been subject to copyright laws since 1935 and doesn't expire until 2012.
For more details see here
Thank you,
Daffy & The Guys
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
a: Outlook
b: Win95-ME
Note: I am an NT admin in trade, and make such comments (mostly) in jest.
Will you guys stop clicking his link? I am trying to download his program. Right now at a steady 0.6 KB/s because of all you bastards.
He said be GENTLE. Usually slashdotters are really gentle with links to servers, but today, why must everyone be so rude? One at a time!
Thanks.
Moon Macrosystems. Sun's biggest competitor.
NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local
I do like being able to safely open all the interesting attachments Klez sends me. Interesting and funny stuff in there from time to time.
NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local
Hey, I've been in that same situation with Blueyonder. Here's what you do, if they really insist on using Windows;
You lie.
I've had some great conversations like that.
Techie: "Now reboot"
Me: "Right, just rebooting now." Pause to drink some coffee, stare at wallpaper, whatever, until a reasonable sounding amount of time has passed. "Done"
The trick is to just say "Okay" and "Right" and "Done" a lot, write down the settings they give you (if any) and then do your own thing entirely. Better; unless you need action on their part don't call them at all, and if you do, tell them what to do directly, like so: "See the big red button on that router? Press it".
Basically the problem they seem to have is they've been taught to follow a script, and if you confuse them they have to start it all over again. You get similar problems if any actual physical faults occur on the line - eg, no signal/broken cable - if you start your call by telling them the problem they get pretty confused.
eg.
Me: "Hi, the cable's down and the modem isn't able to connect. It's not receiving or sending anything at all according to the LED indicators."
Techie: "Uhh, okay, have you tried rebooting your computer?"
Me: "Why would I do that? The modem isn't receiving anything! The computer is not the problem."
Techie: "Okay, well, can you reboot your computer?"
Me: Sigh, pretend to reboot computer.
Techie: "Does it work now?"
Me: "No! There is no signal!"
Techie: "Right, well, please reinstall your drivers, do you have your driver disk with you?"
Me: "It's an external modem, I think my network drivers are just fine"
Techie: "Please reinstall your drivers"
Me: "Oh, very well" I pretend to reinstall my drivers.
Techie: "Does it work now?"
Me: "No!"
Techie: "Did you reboot?"
Me: Pretend to reboot the machine again.
Techie "Does it work now?"
Me: "No!"
Techie: "Ah. Are all of the LEDs on the modem turned off?"
Me: "YES!"
Techie: "Okay, your cable's down, so the modem can't connect. Sorry"