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1 Year Anniversary of Nimda Outbreak

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the my-logs-hurt dept.

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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  1. our office got it. by snatchitup · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  2. Slashdot uptime = 1 year by msheppard · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    M@

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    Krispy Cream is people
  3. Re:The most long-lived virus/worm/trojan? by mblase · · Score: 4, Funny

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

    That's easy -- MAKE MONEY FAST!

  4. A limerick suiting this topic... by Chagatai · · Score: 5, Funny
    Nimda, Klez, and Red
    Whilst fornicating in bed
    Felt something new
    Saying, "Melissa, is that you?"
    And found Bill Gates naked, instead.

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    --Chag
  5. Re:Still kicking by pclminion · · Score: 5, Funny
    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)

  6. Re:The most long-lived virus/worm/trojan? by Telastyn · · Score: 4, Funny

    a: Outlook
    b: Win95-ME

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