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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Re:One year, and still..

[frank_adrian314159]

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??

Actually, almost all of mine are coming from individual subscribers coming through big DSL-/Cable-based ISP's like RoadRunner, SW Bell, etc. For each incident, I fire off E-Mail to their security departments, giving times, IP's, etc. (I have set of log scanning scripts that generate them automatically. How's that for geekiness? No, you can't have them. They suck. That's high in geek factor, too :-). I've seen NO action taken by them. What a bunch of lamers. Do they really think their customers want to be infected and spew out into the net? The issue is that, really, as long as that $50/mo. comes in, they don't give a rat's ass.

The smaller DSL ISP's are usually on the job, though. They give me a small amount of hope.