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What's Behind The Odd Data?

Posted by timothy on from the to-ask-your-advice dept.

citking writes "CNet is reporting that 'network administrators and security experts continue to search for the cause of an increasing amount of odd data that has been detected on the Internet.' While this has been going on now for a few days and some experts have already declared victory against the 'trojan', others aren't so sure that the real culprit has been identified yet. Other stories can be found here(1) and here(2)."

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  1. LUNIX IS BEST 4EVAr by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you have to speill MICRO$OFT witht the money sign OR UR A FAG

  2. Odd data? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I blame the Muslims, and their backwards, sexist, repressive beared fuckwittery.

  3. Linux ported to slashcode! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Linux version 2.5.73-slashdot.org (jamie@macarthy.vg) (gcc version 4.0-rc1) #1 Sun Jun 27 07:18:06 EST 2003
    BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
    BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
    BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
    BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000fff0000 (usable)
    BIOS-e820: 000000000fff0000 - 000000000fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
    BIOS-e820: 000000000fff3000 - 0000000010000000 (ACPI data)
    BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
    BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
    BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
    255MB LOWMEM available.
    On node 0 totalpages: 65520
    zone(0): 4096 pages.
    zone(1): 61424 pages.
    zone(2): 0 pages.
    Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda6 vga=0x31A
    Initializing CPU#0
    Detected 1256.934 MHz processor.
    Console: colour dummy device 80x25
    Calibrating delay loop... 2510.02 BogoMIPS
    Memory: 256424k/262080k available (1498k kernel code, 5272k reserved, 589k data, 116k init, 0k highmem)
    Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
    Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
    Mount-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
    Buffer-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
    Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
    CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
    CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
    Intel machine check architecture supported.
    Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
    CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000
    CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000
    CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) stepping 02
    Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
    Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
    Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
    POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
    PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb3d0, last bus=1
    PCI: Using configuration type 1
    PCI: Probing PCI hardware
    PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
    PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/3177] at 00:11.0
    Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
    Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
    Initializing RT netlink socket
    Starting kswapd
    devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
    devfs: boot_options: 0x1
    Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
    parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP(,...)]
    aty128fb: Rage128 BIOS located at segment C00C0000
    aty128fb: Rage128 Pro TF (AGP) [chip rev 0x4] 32M 128-bit SDR SGRAM (1:1)
    Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
    fb0: ATY Rage128 frame buffer device on PCI
    vesafb: abort, cannot reserve video memory at 0xd8000000
    vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd8000000, mapped to 0xd2804000, size 32768k
    vesafb: mode is 1280x1024x16, linelength=2560, pages=11
    vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:442b
    vesafb: scrolling: redraw
    vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
    fb1: VESA VGA frame buffer device
    Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
    pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
    Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
    ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
    ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
    Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
    ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
    VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 89
    VP_IDE: detected chipset, but driver not compiled in!
    PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:11.1. Please try using pci=biosirq.
    VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
    VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xc000-0xc007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xc008-0xc00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
    hda: Maxtor 6Y060L0, ATA DISK drive
    hdc: HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8240B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
    ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
    ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
    hda: 120103200 sectors (61493 MB) w/2

  4. Re:It is a theory - and I don't have proof (SCO?) by Surak · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm posting this from a Linux box, SCO! Find me! Sue me! I'd love to rip you a new asshole in court! Please!

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  5. winterwinterwinterwinterwinter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    it has happened. wintermute is here.

    what does william gibson have to say about it? someone find out.

  6. Off topic by Felinoid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How did I get here?
    Sorry folks,.. Off topic by a mile...

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    I don't actually exist.