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Worm vs. Worm Battle Slows Networks
joel_archer writes "According this article at the DrudgeReport, a worm, apparently designed to patch MSBlaster infected Win2K and XP machines, brings various Canadian networks to a crawl. Hardest hit was the 411 system, Air Canada, and Ontario hydro electric operations. Apparently this is causing more problems than MSBlaster itself."
MS exploit virus comes out.
mysterious patching virus starts making the rounds. massive consequences.
we should be doing this more often, kids.
-Leigh
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> Every time I hear about a huge new worm, I wonder how long until someone finds some huge exploit or something that will wreak major havoc over the entire 'net. What would the effects of that be, in the end? Seems like that would have a major effect on world economy.
Yeah, people would start getting their work done out of sheer boredom.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
> My cable went out for about 2-3 hours earlier, and even before it went out everythings been slow, and still is.
Yes, due to the state of emergency we'll all have to shoot for "second post" until this dies down, since the internet isn't physically fast enough to let anyone get a "first post" in right now.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
One suspects that the power companies in that corner of the world are oh-so-glad to have any random excuse right now.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
If they just made sure their bloody networks were patched and firewalled correctly they wouldn't have this issue..
Frankly I think that anyone that complains about this needs a good hard leson in cause and effect.. oh hang on.. looks like they're getting that now!
Lets hope they're bright enough to recognize it.
"Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far
> Send a worm to kill a worm!
Two worms enter, one worm leaves!
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
You couldn't tell, but I used the freeze-frame on my Beowulf cluster of Tivos and saw that there was hidden IP in Blasters hand.
I was so pissed, I called Fight Update to complain, but the lines were all busy.
Never again will I pay $179 for a pay-per-view wrestling match...although the upcoming free-for-all cage match between SCO, Linux, IBM, Novell, Red Hat and FSF sounds pretty interesting. I bet that PanIP will make an appearance and beat the hell out of somebody too.
Someone always gets in the cage at the last minute.
At Boston/Logan airport last Friday, I saw on a Delta departures/arrivals screen this Windows error dialog in front of the grid of flights:
"At least one service failed to start..."
I took a photo of it. I thought:
- "I'm glad I don't run Windows." - "I'm glad I'm not flying Delta today."
...of two huge monsters battling over Tokyo and knocking over buildings in their fight while the puny sysadmins in their tanks futilely try to hurl patches, and one of the huge monsters is Good and one of the huge monsters is Bad but no matter becuase even if the good one wins, Tokyo is getting stomped flat either way?
Okay, I think I've just proven that I've been awake too long. Goodnight..
Irritable, left-wing and possibly humorous bumper stickers and t-shirts
D'oh, d'oh indeed.
> Or maybe some people actually have a local network that uses port 135!
Argh! My pacemaker!!!
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Me never forget you URL pay back much money.
Thank You For Helping Worm and Mother
OH THE SHAME I fell off the wagon and use sigs again!
...someone could annihilate every Windows machine connected to the internet in the entire world with one stroke.
Now that you mention it, that doesn't sound so bad...
Didn't you mean:
1) Once on a box, clean and patch said box.
2) Sit and listen to port 135, waiting for Blaster to rear its ugly pulsing-zit-like head.
3) In response to Blaster probe, install itself on Blaster-infested machine and start over at 1).
4) On some set date in future, or when number of Blaster-probes remains 0 for a predetermined time (say 1 month), remove itself from system.
5) ???
6) Profit!
It's a Guru Meditation, kind sir, a Guru Meditation. Just as if not more annoying than a blue screen of death.
(Bastard Flight Attendant From Hell)
``It's a nightmare,'' said one unidentified woman. ``The service is so bad; the management was so bad. The system is just a mess, just a mess. I had my luggage delivered to Toronto, I was told on Saturday, so I don't have anything.''
And they're blaming it on a virus? I can see it now....
BFAFH: "Your luggage hasn't arrived yet? Let me see..."
*klickety-klickety*
"It appears that it was accidently routed to the other side of the world!"
(which makes sense, that's where it would go when the BFAFH put it on the "international flights" belt at the person's originating terminal.)
Traveller: "What?!? How could that happen?"
BFAFH: "Well, it's most likely due to.." *flips 'excuse of the day' calendar... hmm, this one's easy* "..a computer virus! Yes, you must have heard about it on the news, that one that is hitting all of the Windows systems? It's really quite horrible."
Traveller: "But what am I going to do for clothes? I have a business meeting tomorrow!"
BFAFH: "Well, the soonest we can get them here is next week. Sorry about that, have fun shopping for nice clothes in a hurry. And thank you for flying!"
No; they would install *nix from scratch.
My wife and I were going through Dublin airport when I noticed that a number of the airport schedule display screens were going through a reboot sequence. I showed it to her : "Hey, looks like that one crashed."
She had to point out that a more alarming interpretation of the word "crashed" may have been made by some of the other people in the arrivals area.
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our American dead!
This reminds me of something I read back in 2000 :-)
The collection of worms/virii don't go and infiltrate high-end physics labs, change signs on equations and cause Peter Weller and company to lose out on their 5 year mission to save the Earth from destruction...
I'm going to develop a worm, that mutates into two different worms...one will be the democrats, the other will be the republicans.
On the first Tuesday in November, one of them will activate and fill your computer, television and radio with loads of bullshit.
It's not what you know; It's what you can find out.
So wait, I don't get it...
Which is worse, exploiting Windoze? Or fixing it?
"I could do a lot of stuff, if I had some money!" -Homer Simpson