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Netcraft Jokes About SCO's Virus Fears
Elektroschock writes: "Through the media SCO Group sent the message that a virus writer that targets its website would be a Linux enthusiast. Netcraft has its own funny remarks in a dogfood article." Some of you might get a cackle out of the third solution.
Looking at their uptime stats, a DDoS wouldn't really make much difference.
The whole front page of SCO's website is dedictated to the virus. If you were running SCO you wouldn't have this problem, so why is it freatured on their website? Probably just fodder for the next lawsuit is my guess.
J.
Some cats swing, and others don't. Don't you be the kind that won't.
PING www.sco.com (216.250.128.12) 56(84) bytes of data.
--- www.sco.com ping statistics ---
34 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 33048ms
I asked him his thoughts about SCO's foolish crusade, and he said, "Hey, we would have been out of business in December if they didn't."
So I guess Solution Number 1 may be plausible for fiscal reasons also.
Hopefully people who use Linux won't be denegrated as mere Fans, Fanatics or Enthusiasts for too much longer, as Macintosh users have been for years, now that the big boys are putting out ads backing the "OS that could".
This morning I saw my first Linux ad on TV, sponsored by IBM. The theme, a young child showing up all over the World and a voiceover saying something to the effect of "the child is growing up".
The combination of ads promoting Linux, and the $250,00 bounties offered by those who would prefer it dead and buried, just might finally be opening the public's eyes to what's going on in Lindon and Redmond these days!
This just in:
"D'Aloisio Marc observed some things about the DoS attack, and raised some preliminary questions:
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Has anyone seen the DOS against SCO actually happen?
I have the new critter in a test environment where we conducted a
preliminary and rudimentary functionality and threat analysis and the
only activity I can get it to perform related to www.sco.com is to
resolve the name. In fact, it seems very unhappy if it cannot resolve
www.sco.com. Once it can, it happily scans local files for anything
that can be construed (very loosely) as a domain and tries to resolve
mail servers based on these. In fact, right now it's trying to resolve
'mx.makewin.rsp'. "Makewin.rsp' is a file referenced in the help files
of my DigitalMars C++ compiler on a test machine, so it's not a very
smart worm. The worm also seems to like to increment the third octet of
the host IP by one and syn to port 25 of that address over and over and
over... I have played with the date, etc, but still no activity directed
toward www.sco.com. It did die after 12 February, but gladly
resurrected when the date was set back prior to that. "
From: http://www.math.org.il/newworm-digest1.txt
Solution 3 recommends redirecting the traffic to 'somone you don't like.' I'm not sure whether I should admit to this but I think you all will find it interesting.
On Tursday afternoon somone began trying to hack into an MS SQL Server that my company runs. They weren't able to get in, but their brute force method of attemting to access the 'sa' account estentially caused a DoS on the application. We got the guys IP address but his ISP doesn't seem very interested in helping out.
It just so happens that we KNOW that a number of users inside our network have contracted MyDOOM. It also just so happens that we have our own internal DNS servers. Jokingly, we mentioned to our Network Admin that he should redirect all the SCO traffic to this IP. You could see a little glimmer in his eye at the suggestion and he paused for a moment and said that was a very interesting idea and that he might just do that...
Anyway, glad to see that we're not the only ones with the idea.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
.. wrote the virus themselves ;)
IBM makes the impossible and loses the case,
IBM buys SCO
IBM owns Linux
spelling mistakes are in my nature, just accept it.
It is an interesting idea about what is considered debatable. "The moon landing was fake" is one of those things. At the point something becomes undebatable it becomes a joke. You will then see so called "unbiased" or more "formal" people use jokes involving the undebatable. This joking is not as much taking a position on the issue as it is an acknowledgment of undebatable status/ humor availability of the topic.
I am very interested in how ideas move across and behind the line that is "the debatable" and when this unfolds in internet time it is fun to watch. I think SCO is well on the way to becoming a cultural "fake moon landing" and undebatable.
In other words SCO is becoming a joke. This is a good and bad thing.
According to the article
SCO Execs point www.sco.com at the loopback address 127.0.0.1 ... Millions of Windows users notice that their computer is running extremely slowly
It's population has been very helpful in researching genetic diseases (of which Newfoundland has a huge problem with, due to lack of variety in the gene pool).