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More MyDoom Gloom
fudgefactor7 writes "Hot on the heels of the last virus, Mydoom.b is on the loose. According to Computerworld, this variant has a larger payload and targets Microsoft's Web site for a distributed denial-of-service attack on Feb. 1, instead of The SCO Group Inc. Patch those systems and keep your A-V up to date. Definitions are available currently."
decaying writes "With the amount of virus-laden emails flying about due to the latest virus, Australian ISP Optus have started selectively blocking port 25 outbound. Optus say they are acting in accordance with their "Terms of use", quoting that they reserve the right to restrict access to any TCP/IP port. The only option is to use Optus' SMTP server and nothing else. Community site Whirlpool has an on-going discussion about the issue."
carnun writes "Just another link on MyDoom. Apparently the FBI are also getting in on the act. Interesting to see such a fast response." And to me, the most interesting one: Zeriel writes "After much discussion on a mailing list discussing trojan horses, some people have reached the conclusion that MyDoom doesn't accomplish its stated goal of DDOSing SCO at all! Choice quote from the analysis: "I have the new critter in a test environment where we conducted a preliminary and rudimentary functionality and threat analysis...I have played with the date, etc, but still no activity directed toward www.sco.com." The link also includes disassembly and analysis of the worm code."
So it was SCO!
Personally, I'm looking for a serious apology (or at least a retraction) for the 'alleged' link between this ugly little nasty and Open Source / Linux users.
We'll get right on that!
Sincerely,
The Mass Media.
place where nobody gives a wet slap
Anyone care to clarify what a wet slap is?
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Bah!
The virus is closed source and runs on Windows. It clearly has nothing to with the GNU/Linux.
Hehe, insert joke about BSD catching a virus...
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SCO is the dark side of the open source movement.
Darth McBride: "You underestimate the power of the dark side. If you will not fight, then you will meet your destiny."
Not to mention all of the scared users calling the helpdesk insisting that they are infected.
"Dude, you are using PINE! You are NOT infected!!!"
Also, you forgot to make an RIAA variant, dumbass!
Of course, there could be evil spammers who also like Linux (or don't like SCO), but until someone's caught, or fesses up, it's impossible to say.
That sounds like terrorist speak to me. Thanks to recent legislation, anyone running Linux can now be 'detained' indefinitely without evidence. God bless Micro^H^H^H^H^H^H America.
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain
On a related note, I found this on urbandictionary.com:
/. adds)t erm=dar l&f=1
d ar l+mcbride&f=1
m cb ride&f=1
:)
(remove the spaces that
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=
It seems the search engine on urbandictionary.com is so smart, you don't even have to add a definition to get the right search results!
The current definitions:
No definitions found for "mcbride."
Suggestions:
jackhole
8 votes
a dumbshit
Fucker quit being a jackhole!
tea bag
40 votes
(v). To lower your body as to dip the testicles into her mouth as the woman is tounging the scrotum.
Hey man, you should have seen the look on that bitches face when I tea bagged her.
I suggest not to mess with the definitions as these suggestions are even funnier than the real thing. Thanks!
Will code a sig generator for food
don't you realise that slashdot is a DDoS worm?
How dumb do you have to be to infuriate the entire Open Source community by claiming you own Linux and trying to license it for $699 per CPU?
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed are not necessarily my own, as I've not yet had my medication today.
"It's entirely possible that the authors of this virus targeted SCO, simply to make it appear that Linux zealots were responsible..."
I wouldn't rule out Romulan involvement.
"Derp de derp."
A couple days ago, a local televisions station (Fox 32 Chicago) had a 20 second blurb on the worm. It said there was a new computer virus around. The picture? Apple iMac. At least it was the newer iMac, I'm surprised they didn't put a IIci on there.
The blurb had no information on what to do. Didn't say it was an MS virus, didn't say to go to any website to see what you could do. Just announced "another virus". Waste of time.
p.s. yes, it's an old joke, but still, you know you laughed....
Darth: "I am your father."
Linus: "Hell no, you're just a desperate old fart who's jealous of my DNA and wants to take some credit for it."
Darth: "Shit."
Because I'm sure framing someone else is such an ingenious origninal idea. Now if someone made a virus that changed your background to a picture of the goatse.cx man, well that would truely be ingenious.
Disgruntled SCO Employee: This company is going down the tubes. If I stay here much longer I'll never find work again! I quit! *slam*
Darl McBride: Damn! We just lost our last programmer! What are we going to do now?
Grand Vizier: *rubbing hands together* Well, now I suggest we go to the very salt of the earth...To the spammers!
McBride: Wha? What the hell are you talking about?
Mr. Burns: Obviously our only course of action is to utilize the dark side of the force. We must make those young linux whippersnappers look bad by making a virus that seems to target our own servers!
McBride: Brilliant! We'll make it look like those linux communists are trying to destroy our legitimate business! Make it so!
Mr. Burns: Eeeexcellent.....
Thus goes the story I heard from a passing lunatic...
I certainly hope the author wasn't a Linux zealot trying to harm SCO.
;)
Especially when they're doing such a fine job all by themselves!
To: Luser (whoever@blah.com)
From: Hax0r (jeffk@somethingawful.com)
Subject: *nix virus
This is the only known Virus that works on all *nix systems. Please forward this to everybody on your list and delete all the files on your harddrive. Thank you.
(Or something to that effect)
Karma: Non-Heinous
1) Earth landed a multi-ship advance scouting party on Mars this month
2) An earth leader with a track record for aggression speculated in a speech about the resources that might be plundered from Mars
3) Earth announced that it was preparing a full scale manned invasion of Mars by 2050
4) SCO sent a letter demanding payment to Martian citizen Marvin, just in case he uses Linux in his Space Modulator
Sigs are bad for your health.
You must be using one of those old and technologically outdated Linux distros as RedHat, SuSE or Debian. :) Oh yeah, forgot to mention, Gentoo baby. LOL
All I do is emerge sync && emerge mydoom and I'm good to go. Ebuild is currently in Portage, just sync your systems
If you mod me down, I *will* introduce you to my sister!
In Win98, I believe the wallpaper filename was stored in win.ini (it doesn't appear to be so in Win2k and this seriously isn't interesting enough for me to look it up at the moment.) We would grab that file and take a peek. If they had an image suitable to be defaced, we would draw mustaches on everyone and draw little cartoon baloons saying stuff like, "UR COMPUTAR HAS EBOLA!!11" and then overwrite their copy of the file. If they had a stupid background, we'd find something funny to give them.
Between the sorely juvenile humor and the liquor, it was completely hilarious to us at the time. I was even called by the school's Computer Support Desk at one time to see if I knew anything about the rare computer virus the student computers had. And before anybody points out how childish and potentially criminal this was, let me say that it was childish and potentially criminal. We just screwed with people's wallpapers but we could have remotely deleted their entire hard drives. Educating the masses about computer security is a difficult task, but goddamn if drawing mustaches on people isn't funny.
I'm still laughing at SCO's offer to pay a $250,000 reward to whoever can catch the MyDoom author. It's a bit like OJ offering $250,000 for the arrest of his wife's killer....
I'm not normally an irrational zealous dickhead, but I figure "When in Rome..."
Shhhhhh...
-- *~()____) This message will self-destruct in 5 seconds...
You may modify and redistribute this virus however often you like, so long as you include the source code. If you do not share the source code, you may not redistribute this virus.
Sounds like a pretty sweet deal to me. No wonder Linux systems aren't hit very often; viruses violate the GPL.
Ceci n'est pas une signature.
The obvious solution then is to demand that sco remove the sco.com domain. It's the only decent thing to do.
Since this virus is an act of cyber-terrorism, could it be said that he's supporting the terrorists? Can we finally bomb utah?
It's been a long time.
Wow, typoing URLS on informative posts, then replying with the correction is an excellent way to effortlessly build your karma score. I've got to try that sometime.
What? You haven't been to groklaw to read the evidence? Perhaps you should do your homework.
Bruce Perens.
I'm sure we could find some poor russian in siberia who would gladly accept say... 5k USD to sell one of their family members into the luxury of a US jail system. Plus we'd get to milk SCO for 250k... I like this plan. We'd probably also have to pay off an official "investigator" to forge some data, but it seems worth while... probably still come out 200k up for our side...
I offer 15 lines of code. From System V.
Free as in mason.
"Linux responsible for SARS virus"
"Linus Torvalds is Antichrist, confirms Pope"
"Open Source developers are sheltering Osama bin Lade, says Pentagon".
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it