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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.
I for one welcome our new "previously unknown Linux Thought Leader" overlord!
The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer. - Albert Einstein
Maybe the person who wrote the virus is trying to tackle the real virus - SCO's lawsuits.
Seriously, SCO's DOSing every Linux user's stress level...
Looking at their uptime stats, a DDoS wouldn't really make much difference.
Fact: *Santa Cruz Operations is dying.
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.
... the entire world starts to DDOS you, to see if an expected DDOS is taking place yet [huge grin :-] ... A company that monitors uptime starts a deathwatch on your site ... That same company publically ridicules you on their homepage :-)
Simon
Physicists get Hadrons!
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
some kickin' genetics research [utah.edu]
:-)
No wonder, they have a rather large population with a very coherent DNA to study there
(Yes, I'm half-joking, and no I'm not flaming. Utah folks are nice overall, but it's true that polygamy was practiced there up to 100 years ago mainly to populate Utah as quickly as possible from the small band of initial settlers. Those who've been to Utah know the proportion of white blond-haired blue-eyed people bearing the same last name there is quite staggering. Sweden looks cosmopolitan compared to Utah).
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
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.
Linux geeks reveal that they've secretly controlled satellites in order to build a "Death Star" out of existing space debris. (you think the hubble is busted? Ha! We just borrowed some parts 'cause we needed some lenses and a gyroscope).
This "Death Star" goes Independence Day on SCO Land with pinpoint accuracy -- McBride castrated before being zapped like an ant under a magnifying lens.
Sir Gates and the Knights of the Old Republicans wage war against Geekdom because of this weapon of mass destruction. They device a plan to send a Mac to the death star in order to introduce a virus.
Upon pitching the idea to Steve Jobs, the poor man laughs himself to death, leaving Gates and Ballmer (in their Matrix outfits) to have their tablet PC plugged into the Linux-powered "Laser" via Samba.
The XP Tablet-PC edition spreads like a cancer through the ext3 filesystem resulting in many "I Told You So" comments by Reiser.
Linus, finally sick of all these events, sheds his impartial nature and embraces his dark side. Finally teaches everything he knows to that bleach-blonde IBM Commercial kid and dubs him Darth Tux. Geeks around the world cede their control of the Death Star to Darth Tux, who shoots down both Washingtons and proceeds to carve his face onto Mt. Rushmore.
Darth Tux declared supreme leader, quoted as saying "Choice is good...as long as you choose Linux" Proceeds to create his own distro -- Slim Shady Linux.
Geeks install distro, wave their hands skyward in apathy, and enjoy the new era of computing.
http://www.sco.com/mydoom/
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What long-term steps should I take to protect against future viruses?
3. Do not download any documents or programs from any Website that you do not know to be reputable
This is just their way of stopping people finding what GPL stuff they're still giving away, isn't it?
I'm scared of numbers that can't be written as a fraction. It's an irrational fear.
Mormons, actually. It's like Christ++.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. --Edmund Burke
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.