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!

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One year, and still..

[molo]

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??

our office got it.

[snatchitup]

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.

Slashdot uptime = 1 year

[msheppard]

And it's probably no coincidence that slashdot stats report 365days uptime today.

M@

Re:The most long-lived virus/worm/trojan?

[mblase]

That begs the question: what has been the most long-lived virus/worm/trojan so far?

That's easy -- MAKE MONEY FAST!

A limerick suiting this topic...

[Chagatai]

Nimda, Klez, and Red
Whilst fornicating in bed
Felt something new
Saying, "Melissa, is that you?"
And found Bill Gates naked, instead.

Re:Still kicking

[pclminion]

If anybody is interested, I've developed WormScan [freshmeat.net] last year, which is a Java-based program (GPL) which can analyze your Apache log files for pretty much anything you want (just plug in your regular expressions).

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)

Cease and Desist

[DrSkwid]

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

Re:The most long-lived virus/worm/trojan?

[Telastyn]

a: Outlook
b: Win95-ME

Note: I am an NT admin in trade, and make such comments (mostly) in jest.

Re:Still kicking

[laserjet]

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.

Re:our office got it.

[Mononoke]

Hmm...Am I the only one who finds it ironic that both the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) and kiddie porn are mentioned in the same post?

Like rain on your wedding day?

Re:Macs

[Mononoke]

Yup. Nimda: Just another app that won't run on Macs.

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.