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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."

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  1. Segway Fag by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  2. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp!

  3. This is kinda like something i just saw on newgrou by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Check this out very interesting

  4. Re:fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Looks like the worm might be slowing you down, because YOU FUCKING FAIL IT!!!

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

    also see CNN's take on this.

  6. WHO MODDED ME DOWN??? by NaveWeiss · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    MY previous message was completely ON-topic!!! You can't mod me down like that! It's EVIL!!!!!!! INSTEAD take care of my problem instead!!!

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  7. [OT] Unnecessary linkage by rjamestaylor · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Linking Slashdot readers to Drudge is unneccessary as most readers of Slashdot probably have Drudge on their compulsive-reload list, too.

    ;)

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    1. Re:[OT] Unnecessary linkage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Wow. your sig uses passive periphrastic. Been a long time since Latin classes... =P

  8. I NOMINATE THIS POST FOR GOVERNOR by User+956 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    HE'S GONNA PUMP-- CALIFORNIA UP!

    Hear me now and believe me later: Hasta la vista baby, He'll be back.

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  9. Another offtopic straw-man attack on "socialists" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    There is no such thing as the public interest! The invisible hand of the market is smarter than you! We would be floating around the room in ecstacy if it weren't for government intervention!

    "Statist crud"... geez.

  10. Re:GIRLFRIEND by NaveWeiss · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "She doesn't look so good" was an understatement, but I can't say you didn't cheer me up a bit.

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  11. Re:Hm... by MasterSLATE · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sorry for being OT - just wanted to correct some slight English error. Just trying to help someone with their English, since I see zcat is from NZ.

    >> automatic updates and XP's inbuilt firewall.

    In English, we say built in. :)

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  12. Re:Freddy vs. Jason by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Superheroes? You definition of superheroe is a little bit twisted ain it? And the expression "Evil Superheroes" is somewhat a contradition

  13. *offtopic* Re: hmm, i wonder. by ssbljk · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That worm killing worm thing sounds like Monty Python's:
    I think that all good, right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being sick and tired. I'm certainly not, and I'm sick and tired of being told that I am.

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    /ss
  14. Re:yes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You're stupid.

  15. morons continue to lambaste unprecedented evile.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    va lairIE's whoreabully infactdead, pateNTdead PostBlock(tm) devise, the walking dead, etc...

    that's right. those foulcurrs best get ready to see the light. the WANing daze of the phonIE greed/fear/ego based, thieving/murdering payper liesense hostage taking stock markup FraUD georgewellian fuddite execrable are #ed. talk about a wormIE cesspool of deception? eradicating yOUR domestic corepirate nazi terrorist/gangsters will be the new national pastime.

    communications will improve, using whatever power sources are available.

    you gnu/software folks are to be commended. we'd be nearly doomed by now (instead, we're opening yet another isp service) without y'all. the check's in the mail again.

    meanwhile... for those yet to see the light.

    don't come crying to us when there's only won channel/os left.

    nothing has changed since the last phonIE ?pr? ?firm? generated 'news' brIEf. lots of good folks/innocents are being killed/mutilated daily by the walking dead. if anything the situations are continuing to deteriorate. you already know that.

    the posterboys for grand larcenIE/deception would include any & all of the walking dead who peddle phonIE stock markup payper to millions of hardworking conservative folks, & then, after stealing/spending/disappearing the real dough, pretend that nothing ever happened. sound familiar robbIE? these fauxking corepirate nazi larcens, want us to pretend along with them, whilst they continue to squander yOUR "investmeNTs", on their soul DOWt craving for excess/ego gratification. yuk

    no matter their ceaseless efforts to block the truth from you, the tasks (planet/population rescue) will be completed.

    the lights are coming up now.

    you can pretend all you want. our advise is to be as far away from the walking dead contingent as possible, when the big flash occurs. you wouldn't want to get any of that evile on you.

    as to the free unlimited energy plan, as the lights come up, more&more folks will stop being misled into sucking up more&more of the infant killing barrolls of crudeness, & learn that it's more than ok to use newclear power generated by natural (hydro, solar, etc...) methods. of course more information about not wasting anything/behaving less frivolously is bound to show up, here&there.

    cyphering how many babies it costs for a barroll of crudeness, we've decided to cut back, a lot, on wasteful things like giving monIE to felons, to help them destroy the planet/population.

    no matter. the #1 task is planet/population rescue. the lights are coming up. we're in crisis mode. you can help.

    the unlimited power (such as has never been seen before) is freely available to all, with the possible exception of the aforementioned walking dead.

    consult with/trust in yOUR creator. more breathing. vote with yOUR wallet. seek others of non-aggressive intentions/behaviours. that's the spirit, moving you.

    pay no heed/monIE to the greed/fear based walking dead.

    each harmed innocent carries with it a bad toll. it will be repaid by you/us. the Godless felons will not be available to make reparations.

    pay attention. that's definitely affordable, plus, collectively, you might develop skills which could prevent you from being misled any further by phonIE ?pr? ?firm? generated misinformation.

    good work so far. there's still much to be done. see you there. tell 'em robbIE.

    as has been noted before, lookout bullow.

  16. wiretapping RS-??2 is trivial /nt by Chep · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    (damn slashdot)

  17. Re:You do realize this is Air Canada, right? by Stephen+Samuel · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Last I heard, you are now charged $8 for 4 (pretty crappy) chicken wings.

    You've come a long way, baby...

    I've been flying since I was a baby, and an early memory was being pissed off that the Air Canada stewardesses kept on insisting on pre-slicing my steak for me...

    Steak and salad for lunch (steak just slightly pink in the middle) with fruit salad for desert. Real metal knifes and forks and plastic plates that were probably more indestructible than corningware.

    Now, I feel lucky to get a chicken sandwich in a paper bag.

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