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Worm vs. Worm Battle Slows Networks

Posted by timothy on from the buncha-worms-are-involved dept.

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."

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  1. hmm, i wonder. by Pandora's+Vox · · Score: 5, Funny

    MS exploit virus comes out.

    mysterious patching virus starts making the rounds. massive consequences.

    we should be doing this more often, kids.

    -Leigh

    1. Re: hmm, i wonder. by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Funny


      > MS exploit virus comes out. mysterious patching virus starts making the rounds. massive consequences. we should be doing this more often, kids.

      Yeah, I'm working on a worm to kill off the worm that was supposed to fix Blaster, but I've been busy and haven't gotten it out yet. Look for it in your mailboxes tomorrow!

      --
      Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
  2. Re: How lame is their IT department? by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Funny

    "The system is under attack from the virus, and we've had more problems with this particular virus this afternoon than any other previous virus in Ontario," said Terry Young, a spokesman for the Ontario's Independent Electricity Market Operator.
    > So basically they haven't yet learned how to block port 135 on their networks? And they refer to a worm as a virus. I'm glad I don't live in Ontario right about now.

    One suspects that the power companies in that corner of the world are oh-so-glad to have any random excuse right now.

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    Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
  3. Worm vs. Worm - It's a Ripoff! by teamhasnoi · · Score: 5, Funny
    I got this on pay-per-view last week and it was totally fixed. MS Blaster dove off the top rope onto MS Patcher, and then kept booting him, and rebooting him. MS Patcher was like, "Huh? What?" until his manager got in the ring and slapped him.

    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.

  4. Re:Windows servers by CurlyG · · Score: 5, Funny

    Holy shit, your gas station is running Windows and is connected to the internet??

    Please, please tell me that the pumps can't actually be controlled from the PC running the station...

    --
    You know they call 'em fingers but I've never seen 'em fing. Oh, there they go.
  5. Windows on airport displays by Anarchofascist · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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    Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our American dead!
  6. Re:Windows servers by Mr.+Bad+Example · · Score: 5, Funny

    Holy shit, your gas station is running Windows and is connected to the internet??

    "Regular, midgrade, premium...CowboyNeal? The hell?"