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Today's Windows Virus - MyDoom / Novarg
Oddster writes "There is a new virus out by the name of Novarg which can infect all Windows versions from 95 to XP. It has two interesting features - first, in addition to mass mailing, it also distributes itself via the P2P network Kazaa. Second, it can perform a denial-of-service against www.sco.com. Details at Symantec
and F-Secure, although neither seems to have finished their analysis." Other readers have sent in links to coverage at CNET and Security Response, and Russ Nelson provides a sample message.
First post!!!
Yes that's right, THINK ABOUT YOUR BREATHING. Why you might ask? Well it's simple!
Your brain usually takes care of breathing FOR you, but whenever you remember this, YOU MUST MANUALLY BREATH! If you don't you will DIE.
There are also MANY variations of this. For example, think about:
In conclusion, the THINK ABOUT YOUR BREATHING troll is simply unbeatable. These 4 words can be thrown randomly into article text trolls, into sigs, into anything, and once seen, WILL FORCE THE VICTIM TO TAKE CARE OF HIS BREATHING MANUALLY! This goes far beyond the simple annoying or insulting trolls of yesteryear.
In fact, by EVEN RESPONDING to this troll, you are proving that IT HAS CLAIMED ANOTHER VICTIM -- YOU!
Thankyou AC, that's the nicest thing anyone has said to me all day ;)
there is always kazaa lite. on rare occasions, i've used it as a last resort for extremely rare files that are otherwise unobtainable
YOU SUCK BALLS!
Hey Digitus1337 if you're so 1337, you already know you can just telnet to brian's box and go to the same folder he had the USS enterprise schematics in autocad 12 format.
It's the folder after the fake blowjob pictures of the olsen twins. If you get to the folder with the old Gillian Anderson stuff, go back one level.
It's not me, it's the trojan that did it!
We've recently been inundated with a handful or two of product samples from different companies seeking to make a splash by making their key chain drives stand out from the competition. Generally, most we've tried work as advertised, though some are better than others.
DigitalWay's MPIO HS100 portable hard drive.
Two recent entrants from Iomega (nyse: IOM - news - people ) are the 512-MB Mini Drive and the 128-MB Micro Mini Drive. Iomega is the company that launched the 100-MB Zip Drive in the 1990s, which made high-capacity portable storage popular.
The 512-MB Mini Drive ($200) is about what you'd expect from a key chain drive. It's about the size of a man's thumb (they are sometimes called "thumb drives," after all) and uses a fast USB 2.0 connection. That makes it awfully handy for taking large files with you on short notice. We loaded a 27-megabyte videoclip, the trailer for The Return of the King, onto the drive in about five seconds.
Iomega also supports its active disk technology on the drive, which lets you run software like Open Office, an open source alternative to Microsoft's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) office software, directly from the drive.
By contrast, the 128-MB Micro Mini Drive ($70) is much cuter but smaller than the larger Mini. This one is about half the size of a man's thumb and comes with an attachable chain that can be worn around the neck--its size does make it easy to lose. It connects to the PC using the older USB 1.1 standard, so it loads data much more slowly. It took about 30 seconds to copy that Return of the King trailer.
Another brand of key chain drive we've come to appreciate is the DiskOnKey from M-Systems (nasdaq: FLSH - news - people ). Many companies sell drives that are actually manufactured by M-Systems and then re-branded, and it holds a lot of patents on the technology and spends a good deal of effort paying lawyers to defend those patents from numerous knock-offs.
We recently tried a 256-MB DiskOnKey Classic with a USB 2.0 connection. Installed onboard was a software package called Xkey, which gives access to a Microsoft Outlook account from any computer it's plugged into. With less than a minute's work at configuration, the program on the drive gives access to the Outlook in-box, contacts and calendar. When new mail arrived, a little message announcing it appeared in the lower right-hand corner of the screen. Several DiskOnKey models are available in different capacities as high as 1 gigabyte. The company sells them primarily through partners like IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ), but it also has an online store. Prices on DiskOnKey Classic range from $100 for a 128-MB unit to $549 for a 1-GB model.
Another drive we tried was the MPIO HS100 from South Korea's DigitalWay. Known mostly as a brand of digital music player, the $200 MPIO contains a 1.5-gigabyte hard drive rather than the conventional flash memory used by most key chain