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Latest MyDoom Variant Gives Google Problems
Devil's BSD writes "It seems like the latest MyDoom worm variant has caused a bit of an Internet storm. Google, at this time (12:28 EDT), is returning 503 errors on all queries submitted from certain locations. The MyDoom variant searches the user's address book for email domains (i.e. @yahoo.com) and searches various engines (such as Google) for email addresses in that domain."
Virus writers want to attack Microsoft or SCO, fine... but this... this is war! YOU DO NOT ATTACK THE GOOGLE!!!
Now my hotmail account will start getting spammed :(
i was getting errors when trying to search, but people i was talkin to online elsewhere in the country were fine. my whole office was screwin up.
gmail still works tho, hrm.
I thought I was going nuts, I've never had google give me problems.
I found it hard to remember the names of other search engines that I could use though.
Everything else seems to be ticking ok (news, images, Froogle, etc...)
I'm getting "
Server Error
The service you requested is not available at this time.
Service error -27
"
for all of my search attempts.
Can someone give an example showing this error? I am unable to reproduce it.
-kaplanfx
Visualize Whirled Peas
just when i needed it to search 234324093 of things!!!
(radiosoo) rlz.
I get:
Server Error
The service you requested is not available at this time.
Service error -27.
google slashdotted???
or more preciesly google [my] doomed!!!
As of 11:52 am CST I can get to Google.
Google was probably just confused with the upcoming release of Doom3. Google is just used to reporting 503 errors to any doom3 query sinc eit was vaporware until just recently.
If MyDoom uses certain search strings, you just dump all such searches? Worse case, just dump any search for anything which looks like an e-mail account?
CNN is on behind me, and they've been talking about nothing but Google's IPO. Seems like really bad timing for Google. :-(
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Google is down ... the world is ending! The beginning of the apocalypse! (I can't even check if I spelled that right without google)
Somebody call Homelnd Security - it's time to track down and eradicate Windows machines once and for all. The government has already issued a statement advising that IE is inherently unsafe, so it's time to take the next step.
Google going down is the first sign of the apocalypse. Now if my wife asks me for sex (the second sign), I'll know the world is going to end...
Just got this reply: Your client does not have permission to get URL /search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=e-mail+example.com&btnG=G oogle+Search from this server.
To use the Google API you need a key generated by Google, which requires a small registration, so, while of course, if the perpetrator did fill it out, he probably put in fake information, it would still be a good place to start looking.
Let's post a story on slashdot so that we can help. :-P
503? screw that... why not have a new error number designated specifically for MS infected systems... error 999: The operating system you are using is insecure and has been exploited... you are partially responsible for bringing this server to its knees... Now go in the corner and think about what you've done.
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1: Write crap software
2: Allow said software to DDOS all MSN competition
3: $$$
How do I keep track of people who are fingering
Get google hammered with a big ol DOS, then post it to Slashdot where they are sure to get hammered some more!!
The fact that Google went down appears to have affected the BBC, given that it was given headline news on the radio. Proof that Google has become a world wide institution(or maybe just where the BBC does some of it's "research" :) )
is returning 503 errors on all queries submitted from certain locations
Is that geographic locations, IP blocks, or what? I can use Google just fine at the moment, but have heard of trouble in California (I am in Colorado). TFA gives no details. Anyone have answers?
bash: rtfm: command not found
D'OH! I went to go search for the cause on Google News.
My world is crumbling...
Zaphod B
When duplication is outlawed, only outlaws will have
The query that google seems to block in order to work around this problem is a query for "mailer-daemon@domain.com" where "domain.com" is pretty much anything.
Anyone knows any good search site to use ? ...
Google/Altavista not working here
I would think they're planning on spreading a virus payload around by searching Google/Yahoo out, however Virus writers apparently don't think ahead very well. After the search engines implode from a Massive Ddos attack, A) The bots will essentially be dead when they can no longer search for emails and B) With Google and Yahoo dead,the entire Internet will let slip the dogs of war, if I were this virus writer I'd be deeeeeeep underground right about now (preferably six feet under). Maybe the Ddos attack was their aim? uggggh....
...in bed
Google did a search that took longer than 1 second! Good-bye cruel world!
*jumps out window*
...just use Google's alternate search form...
Happiness is like peeing yourself. Everybody can see it but only you can feel its warmth.
I would normally use Google to figure out the answer to your question, but, uh...
The wxWidget list serve has been hard hit, and I suspect the same is true for other listserves that also post to newsgroups or other generally accessible format (and don't diguise the email addresses).
Pretty nasty though so far, just a lot of garbage in the in-box. I suspect that anyone with an email address up on a web-site that recieves a reasonable amount of traffic (so probably ranked reasonably well by google) will also see some mail from this approach.
- Sighuh?
OK, so if Microsoft comes out with an antivirus product, what incentive do they have to immunize Windows-based computers against worms that attack their competitors? (i.e. Google vs MSN Search).
Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!
...but posting a Google story on Slashdot can't? What is this world coming to?
All Hail My Doom.
For doing the very thing we always failed at doing.
OH MY GOD, YOU SLASHDOTTED GOOGLE, YOU BASTARDS!
Yo Grark
Canadian Bred with American Buttering
Perhaps I'm simply 'located' better, but I can do regular google searches just fine.
But when I ask for "email slashdot.org" it returns a forbidden search page.
So it looks like Google is primarily stopping searches that are typical of this virus, but they may also have automated filtering that stops searches which are too many from IPs and netblocks. This part is probably something they implemented long ago.
But google is going slower for me today, and sometimes it stalls (some of the frontend machines dropping out a bit more frequently than usual?)
-Adam
How will this affect Google's IPO?
Webmasterworld has an interesting thread which details the problems are user agent and locality specific (for me in SoCal IE and Firefox are borked, Konqueror is working, but others report no problem with Mozilla or no problems in certain locals).
How do I keep track of people who are fingering
Atlanta seems to be down as I'm getting that message and within the atlanta area. Anywhere in the US not having problems? Anywhere else having problems?
Apparently it only throws an error when trying to search for an e-mail address (it also looks like they are using at least some degree of intelligence to determine if you are or not)
The following queries generate the error:
email example.com
email@example.com
HOWEVER, the following does *not* generate an error:
name@example.com
My guess is that they are filtering queries based upon what the virus searches for. Good for them!
bash: rtfm: command not found
I'm in Northern Utah.
From work, I was getting the Google errors. (I tried refreshing to get on a different machine, but no luck.)
I could VNC (2 blocks away) to home and search just fine though.
Funny thing is, I got the same type error on Yahoo.com. MSN.com didn't seem to be affected.
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Virus writers, when caught, should have their hands cut off -- or at least a mouse finger. The world just doesn't need this kind of crap going on.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
I've been unable to access any of the google search services since before 9:30 AM this morning. (austin TX)
Here's he HTML of the error page, for the history books
<html><head><title>503 Server Error</title><style><!--body {font-family: arial,sans-serif}div.nav {margin-top: 1ex}div.nav A {font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif}span.nav {font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-weight: bold}div.nav A,span.big {font-size: 12pt; color: #0000cc}div.nav A {font-size: 10pt; color: black}A.l:link {color: #6f6f6f}A.u:link {color: green}//--></style></head><body text=#000000 bgcolor=#ffffff><table border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td rowspan=3 width=1% nowrap><b><font face=times color=#0039b6 size=10>G</font><font face=times color=#c41200 size=10>o</font><font face=times color=#f3c518 size=10>o</font><font face=times color=#0039b6 size=10>g</font><font face=times color=#30a72f size=10>l</font><font face=times color=#c41200 size=10>e</font> </b><td> </td></
"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."--Benjamin Franklin
I was referring to the very high number of 503s that /. was giving out last week, which seemed to have gone unexplained.
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
Fight Spammers!
What a great day for the first- and second-runner up search engines. At least for today, I'm running all of my queries through AllTheWeb.com. I guess being less popular proves strangely helpful at a time like this.
Sometimes I worry that I'll develop Alzheimer's disease, but no one will notice.
use mirrors instead:
http://www.google.co.jp/
http://www.google.fr/
http://www.google.se/
http://www.google.fi/
http://www.google.ca/
all above seem to be responsive atleast to me
There are no atheists when recovering from tape backup.
..And anyone else feel like they just don't quite trust other search engines after using Google for so long?
No it wasnt a DoS, it was an upgrade.. And it was announced beforehand..
---- Booth was a patriot ----
If Google is failing for you, you can work around the issue by using:
http://labs.google.com/personalized
Just don't bother with the personalization settings and you can get regular google searching from that URL and it still works. It's the labs site of course, their beta-test area for new ideas, and it seems to not be affected.
What I thought was a bit odd was that (as a poster on another thread mentioned) the WHOIS entry for google.com is strange:
M
Server Name: GOOGLE.COM.SUCKS.FIND.CRACKZ.WITH.SEARCH.GULLI.CO
That doesn't seem just like MyDoom.
If you think that an Ace is necessary for a full house, then I want to play poker with you for money!
The worker productivity in the U.S. jumps as workers unable to search for things in Google start to do actual work. Tune in at six for the rest of the story.
On the other news, both BSD and Apple died earlier this morning when cars driven by each collided each other on the freeway.
1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d
For Denial of Google.
Google is BIG. VERY VERY BIG. They have server farms all over. What's more, they have different DNS entries depending on which server you look them up from- this helps spread the load out geographically. So, someone Googling on the east coast doesn't get the same server as Google on the west coast. Therefore, though part of Google is down, the rest may yet be up.
The World Wide Web is dying. Soon, we shall have only the Internet.
I can't do any searches, and I tried both of the ones you referred to, and they both give this error message.
moo
Now, I don't use any Windows machine which is allowed to connect to an outside network, so I've never been personally subject to all these problems.
But it seems that these exploits are so common that no one even gets excited about it anymore, it seems to be taken for granted. Sort of like a weather forcast: Rain Tomorrow.
Where is the outrage? The anger at time and money wasted on dealing with these seemingly constant problems?
Or do the IT people who deal with Windows boxes view the frequent patching, virus upgrading, cleanup, rebuilding, and whatever else, as a benefit which provides job security?
To make one of those feeble car analogies, would you be outraged if the car you drove broke down every time an insect smacked into the windshield?
I am just amazed at what people are putting up with.
Strangely, I get a "Service error -27" on any search except froogle. (austin)
http://www.teoma.com/Teoma.com is a great Google alternative. Many haven't heard of it, but it's great!
I'm in Mexico and Google is still not working! It is amazing that we're so tied to Google that we forget the others search engines (in fact when I couldn't search into Google I thought "well I'll wait a couple of minutes" instead of using another search engine like Yahoo!)
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Unfortunately there is very little we can do to retaliate when one of our favorite systems is being attacked. IMO the problem is not the viruses themselves, the problem is that we still don't have a solution to DDoS attacks. If we can solve the DDoS problem, there will be no point in writing DDoS viruses anymore.
It was donwn for few mins as well... I wonder if it's related..
I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress -J Adams
Is it just me or are their other people out there frantically searching their websites for email addresses, so they can remove them. I can almost feel the spam coming. Oh no!!!!
I mean really...
Didn't they all give up?
nuclear iraq bioweapon encryption cocaine korea terrorist
big news for our culture.
From my location, any search string containing the string 'mail' (like mailman, mailbox, email, etc) would fail. But after about 10 minutes, all was well again.
sudo eat my shorts
The same for me! I can search from my co-lo'ed webserver, but not from work (~15 miles away) in VA.
It must be a distance thing.
All I get is
"Server Error
The service you requested is not available at this time.
Service error -27."
-- DuckWing
google works fine on Firefox 0.92 doesnt work on IE 3.0,4.0,5.0,5.5,6.0 or netscape 7.1 all tested. Just though you should know. Rock on firefox
has gone to hell.
My coworkers may realize I really don't know anything if I can't google up answers real soon now...
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
Here in Dallas, I can't search from work, but can search fine from home (VNC). I have tried several different user agents (Thanks user agent switcher in Firefox!), but no difference.
BTW, I am in a midsized office building with over 100 users surfing the web.
If anyone wants to see a screenshot of the error, check this blog entry from 2003. Found via yahoo.
Blog
It seems to be that google with their huge cluster from my point of the world is fast as ever (europe that is) I think personally the problems are caused by the lines of certain providers which seem to give in. Google works as fast as ever.
could this be an effort to influence google's IPO, by showing that google is not an invulnerable giant?
More music, fewer hits
That's been going on for at least 2 years.. I once emailed the administrative contact about it, more out of curiosity than anything. His response, 20 minutes later, was that it was somehow auto-generated and that there wasn't anything they could really do about it.
But here we are at MyDoom.N, which is the 14th virus in a series that requires the user to:
After ignoring 13 previous warnings, I must move from sympathy to malice. For the sake of all humanity, I beg the author(s) of the MyDoom series and other viruses, in your next version, please include the following instructions:
- locate a nearby table lamp with the light on
- remove pants
- break the bulb while it is glowing
- insert testicles into bulb socket
If they're dumb enough to get fooled by MyDoom again, they're dumb enough to get themselves out of the gene pool.Oh wait, the worms *are* Gods.
> $100 per share my ass
I know I'm going to be modded up on this
I am using Firefox 0.9.2 right now and am continuing to get 503 errors on google. I believe that this is an ISP-to-ISP issue, for whatever reason.
I'm getting this every time, nothing to do with the search string:
Server Error
The service you requested is not available at this time.
Service error -27
"we demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!"
There probably aren't more infected machines than legitimate Googlers, but think how many more queries each machine is submitting than any normal person could ever type in.
Google is down! Quick, must post to slashdot.
1. I'll Google search for articles about it... wait.. damn!
2. Maybe someone on usenet has posted, I'll just sear.. damn!
3. Crap someone else has already posted to slashdot, well at least I can post the google cach.. damn!
4. How do you spell cache anyway? I'll just goog.. damn!
5. Fine I'll just go image search for some pr0n.. damn!
A small taste of life without google...
Milwaukee, WI. Everything works except the web search - get a server error -27.
I don't believe it's a local browser issue... might've just been a coincidence, kind of like what might have had happened if I spelled coincidence correctly.
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503? screw that.... why not have a new error number designated specifically for MS infected systems... error 999: The operating system you are using is insecure and has been exploited... you are partially responsible for bringing this server to its knees... Now go in the corner and think about what you've done.
Canada seems unaffected, but much of google's service to the US *is* affected. If you work for a larger organisation then your connection is through a corporate WAN or VPN most likely. In that case, the gateway and/or proxy may be geographically distant. I did the same thing as you (almost--I SSHed to my home server and used Lynx to browse to www.google.ca and managed to see it working).
With my employer's internet connection, however, it appears to pretty much every website that I am connecting from Ohio. I could be in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, or any branch office and websites always log me with an Ohio internet address. Even if I try to visit google.ca instead of google.com at work it still falls over right now. Glad I have the option to connect through my home server and thus have two very different points of presence on the 'net.
CNN Money is now reporting the Google outage.
Gmail's interface is now screwing up on me. It says I have email in my inbox, but the actual inbox shows no messages. The inbox also has the same colors as the Spam box.
Orkut is still working fantastically, though.
I am defenseless. Use your button. Mod me down with all of your hatred.
I have a domain that I host mail for, let's call it thedomain.net. Every day 24 hours a day I get connections from thousands of different computers all sending mail to bernard@thedomain.net, ashley@thedomain.net, and any one of a hundred thousand other possible names at @thedomain.net that don't exist. These machines that connect to my machine are using the user unknown bounces to send spam to forged return addresses.
Naturally I put in a script to watch for this, drop the mails and ban the ips but I've been running the thing for a few days and I have 5000 banned ip addresses in my ipchains firewall!!! I am beginning to think that the number of compromised windows machines out there has led to an absolute security CATASTROPHE of science fiction proportions. The machines attacking me, according to ARIN, are located all over the world.
I'm not really that important or interesting a target, having a measily DSL line but yes I get constant connections from many different computers all over the world all day trying to use me to bounce mail.
I really think, if people knew how huge the number of compromised windows machines there were out there, people would be embarassed to recommend Microsoft products.
Google-owned Orkut is okay.
:)
Oh, by the way, join my Orkut community "Geek Pride"
be more reliable.
A computer can query Google a whole lot faster than a human does on average over a day. 100 thousand times faster sounds reasonable. That shouldn't be a problem with 10 concurrent queries.
If everyone on the planet has a computer and is a Google user. That is 6 billion users.
The math comes out to 60 000 infected computers will create the same amount of traffic as the human userbase will.
This is of course grossly inaccurate, but still.
The Internet is full. Go Away!!!
can somebody post a google cache of google? I need to search for something... thanks.
Google
Error
Server Error
The service you requested is not available at this time.
Service error -27.
The mydoom authors announced today that knowing id software's penchant for releasing a patch the day the game is released they will be attacking their patch servers next, on August 3rd.
for me, anyway. the site never comes up and instead, IE pops me into a google search for www.altavista.com . hooray for IE.
I have discovered a truly remarkable proof which this margin is too small to contain.
The entire media universe runs from the premise that some underpaid assistant can probably google up a reasonable facsimile of a piece of useful information-like attributes from Google rather quickly in order to satisfy the 200 dollar haircut in front of the camera. Should the font of knowledge fail then all the pundits must immediately take themselves to the nearest laser chamber for molecular disassembly.
I swear sometimes Futurama is a documentary.
Fellow /.ers, Google has been attacked with an uncontested callousness in an attempt to rid the internet of freedom of search. In a time of great crises such as this, it is the individual which must stand up amidst the plague which has befallen us and strive to rectify the situation. Therefore, for the duration of the Google outages in certain parts of the world, I will be running a non-profit "Google via Proxy" charity. Simply email with the desired search string. In turn, I will search for the string, save the page in the standard format of the world wide interweb ("html") and email it to you.
Google Via Proxy can be reached via the aptly named email address thescogg@hotmail.com. Please limit your search queries to one search term per hour. Thank you, and godspeed Americans and quaint foreigners.
1. Sell OS
2. ALlow OS to ddos competitor search engine
3. ???
I'm (at work) in Newark, New Jersey. Getting the -27 on everything, including all searches and Google News. Same result if I use one of the international Google mirrors.
Everything2 has also been suffering since about 12:30 PDT yesterday. I wonder if this is related or merely coincidence.
This sig no verb.
There have been many reports recently of virus writers attempting to blackmail companies. Having this virus, an obvious DDoS attack on Google, happen the same day that Google announced the price of its IPO shares is just what you would expect if the Google didn't pay the blackmail.
I don't know how we'll ever be able to test this hypothesis, but I think that something stinks here.
thad
I love Mondays. On a Monday, anything is possible.
The BBC do a reasonably good Google-based search (page down for the search field) which is still up and smiling at the moment.
.ac.uk) it's OK.
I can confim the IP-based blocking behaviour noted by others below. It looks like Google is trying to protect itself by failing queries from certain locations. I can't get results from my home cable, but from work (in
I'm in midtown manhattan and nothing works for me.
The negative image of Google being vulnerable to attack is balanced by the realization that Google is indispensible to many people's experience of the internet.
I mean, why are people saying "Oh, look at their IPO! People will never buy it for $108 now!"
Wouldn't this just prove how many people use google? Honestly, who out there didn't notice see the effects on google before they checked yahoo search or whatever?
Microsoft wrote the virus, and timed it to coincide with the Google IPO. As payback for googles refusal to co-operate with their new search engine proposals.
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I'm trying to get an idea of how wide spread the outage is.
My area is down; error recieved: "Service error -27."
Location: Southwestern Michigan, USA
Whats your area? Are You down? Whats Your Error?
"Capital punishment makes the state into a murderer. Imprisonment makes the state into a gay dungeon-master"
Now what will people reply to dumb questions with if FGI won't work?
You're all Slashdotting Google, dang it.
Google is down and the world is in a panic. All clues indicate the butler did it. Don't believe me? Ask Jeeves.
All of my queries that are sent directly through google's website return "Service error -27.", however, all queries sent through the Opera web browser have no problem. Once I've succeeded in a search I cannot do anything else through google (next, cache, etc), because it does not contain a "sourceid=opera" in the query. By copying the address created by Opera, I was able to successfully search using IE. The address I used was "http://www.google.com/search?q=test&sourceid=oper a&num=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8", where "test" was what I was searching for.
I get a -27 error:
Clearly Google is running on pre OS X Macs:
-27 abortEr IO call aborted by KillIO
-S
...the virus writers ignore you. search.msn.crap is working fine.
I just got shushed by the computer lab manager.
Google appears to block Safari and Camino, but not Firefox.
How on Earth did it get my pager's email address?
We've received a copy of the virus (stopped at the gateway, of course), but here's the text of it for those who are curious:
Dear user xxxxx@domain.com, administration of domain.com would like to inform you
Your email account has been used to send a large amount of junk e-mail during the recent week. We suspect that your computer was compromised and now runs a hidden proxy server.
We recommend that you follow instruction in the attachment in order to keep your computer safe.
Best regards, The domain.com team.
The virus is then attached at the bottom of the message.
I'm in atlanta and yahoo isn't working either.
Believe me, if I started murdering people, there would be none of you left.
...isn't really realized until it goes down. We were researching Linear PCM formats over here when it went down.
I got the error message... "Service Error -27" and immediately though "hm... I wonder what that is," and opened up a new browser window, absentmindedly typing in my query to the Google toolbar...
!@#$!@#$
I laughed for a while, scratched my head, and decided to discuss with my co-workers what the decent "second place" search engine was... Dogpile seemed to be the most common answer. No relevant results, though. Geez, Dogpile is ugly.
[an error occured while processing this directive]
Some of the systems, both Windows and Linux are having this problem, while others are not, dispite being on the same subnet (on our NOC lan here in the UK).
Go figure. Session handling switches deciding which IP's go where and some end servers of Google's being borked is my best guess.
Spooky, Slashdot just gave me a "500 Internal Server Error" while trying to submit that the first time (and then again, with this post!)
This is not a good sign, eep.
Oh the days of Mozilla, Navigator Gold & Mortal Kombat (the first one) - [gets teary eyed]
... I do not think it means what you think it means.
i.e. is an abbreviation for the Latin id est, "that is". It's a synonym for "in other words", "that is to say", or (sort of) "specifically". It does NOT mean "for example", or "such as". For those expressions, you're looking for the Latin abbreviation e.g. - exempli gratia, which means "for example".
Saying this virus "searches your machine for email domains, i.e. yahoo.com", you're actually saying that it "searches for email domains, in other words yahoo.com". This implies that yahoo.com is the only email domain it searches for (or that you are an idiot, and honestly believe that 'email domains' is synonymous with 'yahoo.com'), which makes it seem like a rather pointless search, to say the least.
I.e./e.g. confusion seems to be increasingly common, which surprises me, because it doesn't seem to me that their meanings are at all similar. It seems rather like confusing the phrases 'In spite of which' and 'since Thursday'. Since Thursday, people still seem to do it.
If you really can't remember whether you mean i.e. or e.g., then just write out 'for example' or 'in other words' in full... it doesn't take that much longer.
Spokesman David Krane made a comment in an interview says probing whether virus is among causes of "malfunctions"
Spain's most popular DSL provider (or at least with the majority of users), Telefonica holds us behind a transparent proxy.
Thanks to the proxy, we are being banned from a plethora of sites, including slashdot, and now google.
If a whole country cannot access google, it is missing one of the most important services of the Internet today.
Asking slashdot or google to remove the bans seems useless. Asking the ISP is even more painful.
The only alternative seems to let the international community know about our problem. Since the very precise moment Telefonica stock value begins to sink, maybe they will rethink using these techniques.
FYI, the user agreement talks about complete internet access, and nowhere states it is behind a proxy.
Anyway, if you are interested you can get more information by using google. We can't.
Engage!
400 Bad Request
Bad Request. Bad! Go sit in the corner. Go on. Corner! Sit!
("400" errors are invalid request errors. See RFC2616)br>
409 Conflicting Request
An attack is a form of conflict...
412 Precondition Failed
There are conditions of use for Google. One says something to the effect of:
"You can't use automated request things which make an excessive number of requests."
A precondition of using this service is YOU ARE NOT A WORM.
There could, however, be a new one... br>
411 Problem exists between keyboard and chair
Catch all for human caused errors.
Ok... so it's not exactly accurate use for these codes, but close enough?
Seeing and hearing it all day at work, they never learn.
:-)
Send them warning mails from there own freaking IT department, they never learn.
Losing all data for the zillionth time, they never learn.
Asking me to fix there computer 'cause it's broken, They never learn.
I am going to wear my shirt tomorow: NO, I WILL NOT FIX YOUR COMPUTER. (black, longsleave
Message from god, Please logoff, rebooting the Universe
I believe that would make you THISloveable character
I'm in Mexico and only Google web searches is not working (images, froogle, news are fine); google.com.mx is not working in the same way.
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If you still want to use google, but are getting blocked (like me), try using Google Personalized
Works like a charm. (but a little bit slow)
It wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't so used to searching Google Web and Google Groups when working on a perplexing problem. I actually thought to go and do a search to see if others were reporting this problem in their blogs. Of course I caught myself only after I typed my search in my Google toolbar. Doh!
^.^ I submitted a short article to /. thinking google was down, but I now know about this... ...It's really like Nostradamus said:
The big searcher will be denied
and after the big angel with the gates
will come down, asking to open windows:
The End will be near, with judgement
and everyone will have to repent themselves.
Alì Salam Alè Palem Colà Ulim Dalam
Here's the cached version.
I get the 503 error on the main page, but I can still search through http://labs.google.com/personalized. Thank god.
The string changes every time, even for the same search. I tried email microsoft.com, same thing, but if you do the search over and over the string changes. Perhaps it is so they can tie it to unique searches.
a9.com which is run by Amazon using google still seems to be running.
_______________________________
"I'm not Conceited...I'm just a realist..."
For those still getting 503 responses from google, you can do your search via the "personalized search" option within google labs.
I don't know how but I'm pretty sure Microsoft is responsible for this. ...or at least i'm pretty sure that's the conclusion /.ers will come to
A website is a good starting point, so long as the interface is simple, you get your message across quickly, and provide a lot of information to back it up. Be prepared with other facts to address people who are anti-Democrat or pro-Hatch that are shifting the argument away from digital rights -- most will be unconvertable but some may have a different problem with him that they're not aware of.
You'll be doing a favor for all of us if you do this, and probably build up meaningful connections with like-minded individuals in the process. Enough people are upset that you'd have an array of talent to choose from (more if you can break each task into tiny easy-to-complete pieces) but money will as always be a consideration.
Howdy from Brookyn, NY USA.
Everything but Froogle get the below error message since at least ~10:00 EDT this morning.
-----
Server Error
The service you requested is not available at this time.
Service error -27.
Caught in the clutches of the Dark Lord Darl
McBride: "Google, I am your Father. Join me in the Dark Side."
Google: "You're NOT my Father...."
McBride: "Search your feelings. You know I am your Father. I own your code."
Google: "That's impossible. I CAN'T Search....";
McBride: "Then you will Die."
Lightning bolts. Cries for mercy. Millions of netziens unable to look up the answers to life as we know it as SCO sets forth its menions of MyDoom onto poor Google Arraywalker.
Yoda: "A terrible feeling I have. The net crting I hear. Pain. Suffering. Unanswered, go queries. The Dark Side is upon is."
INSERT INTO comment VALUE('Doh!') WHERE user='you';
Google Personalized Search still works.
Don't let "Personalized" in the name worry you; it won't personalize your results unless you go through the process of telling it your interests. The only difference I see between Google Personalized Search and normal Google Search is that the second result from a site is not indented.
The shareholder is always right.
haha
1 hour later, 15 year old nerd with copy of Visual Basic brings their entire service down...
Here is what I got just a reload ago.
That's a lot of errors to return for a single search. Maybe if they only gave 1 error for every search they wouldn't be so bogged down. Oh wait...
That's the sound of the joke flying right over your head.
do we know which locations are affected and which aren't?
You know - there was once a time when I had to manually list trought my fidonet archives and there was no such thing as google yet.
And then there was the great and the powerfull - the altavista. And then there was hotBot.
Ahh. the history...
Productiviy just went down about 80%
FYI I'm a programmer
that's more in the neighborhood of what this shitbag is worth.
I've been getting 503 errors for Slasdot as well for the last 15 or 20 minutes. It just came back but rather sluggish. Tried it both at home and at work and saw the same problem. Google from home (bellsouth.net) works OK.
I think the vast majority of people in this topic are blaming the users.
It's pretty easy to keep a Windows machine going without viruses.
As far as engineering it away goes, no project can engineer away viruses. They'll always go to the weakest link in the system: dumbass users.
But I'm having problems accessing Slashdot. When I can connect, I'll post a reply.
Pete Carr Owner Chatmag.com
Hmm... "Don't Panic" seems to be a good response... either that, or 42. ;-)
Do you know where your towel is?
interesting -- I've been googling right along this morning without any apparent interruption since about 6am central. I had no idea this was going on.
/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=email+domain.com&btnG =Search from this server. (Client IP address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
When I try to do a search with the term 'email' and something that looks like a domain, I get the 403:
Your client does not have permission to get URL
but any other search works just fine and has all morning.
There is much cruelty in the universe, John.
Yeah, we seem to have the tour map.
Atlanta, GA here - server -27 error on web searches. image/groups works fine.
However, it shoudl be noted that there are others here in Atlanta who can search just fine. Everyone at my company, and my friend @ IBM cannot search. Everyone else I've spoken to here in ATL can.
I remember that old David Letterman tv joke ad that went something like Dave saying:
"Imagine what the world would be like without television?"
[TV static for 5 seconds then Dave comes back on]
"Scary, wasn't it?"
Now imagine the world without the Internet... +++NO CARRIER
When gmail will be wide-spread.. imagine a virus, digging all your 1GB e-mails to get addresses..
This could be a real disaster..
First I wanted to be a chef. Then I wanted to be Napoleon. My ambitions have continued to grow ever since.
And it just uses Google behind the scenes.
Can anyone post a google cache of the story?
Try Mamma, The Mother of all Search Engines.
2bits.com, Inc: Drupal, WordPress, and LAMP performance tuning.
Step 1. Create new MyDoom variant with some "specific" things that will "target" Google
Step 2. Release virus
Step 3. Watch as Google searches fall off into the bit-bucket for many users
Step 4. Watch IPO tank
Step 5. Release your own search engine that doesn't suck but is certainly no Google
Step 6. Exclaim proudly: "See, we TOLD you Linux was no good! Not even Google, probably the biggest Linux success story ever, could keep it running!"
Step 7. Garned even MORE hate from all of humanity
(As a nice side-effect: "Watch as Slasdot slows to a crawl for a couple of hours as every geek on the planet tries to find out what happened to their beloved Google")
If a pion (n-) collides with a proton in the woods & noone is there to hear it, does lamdba decay into the source pa
So, a virus on an MS's os is attaching MS's main competition in their new battle field, the search engine. Just as MS is claiming they've improved they enginee and just as the competitor under attach is in the process of an IPO. I think that would get us all thinking harder about getting a tinfoil beanie. Of course, that will be your downfall since THEY will know what you're thinking.
HA! You fools!
Works fine for me... just search for "Google Server Error" and click "I'm Feeling Lucky" =)
Yeah, I've already gotten one of these messages from GEmail, claiming I'm a Penske user. Spam bombardment is also up dramatically. I'm sure I'll get plenty more. This kind of robot generated crap flood is just not funny.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
In NJ, US
News goes right to the error as did the search, but as I was done typing this comment it started working again and fast I might ad. Right before the IPO too... hmmm.
....... Thus ends my attempt at wit or whatever
I'm in Detroit, MI. All but Froogle giving a -27...
Wait it's back
channel9.msdn.com also downed. Is it related
It works now in spain.
Apparently everyone's email box is filling up quicker than they did during the nimda outbreak. One of the best suggestions is to block all compressed attachments that do not meet a specific naming convention (like PXF_file.zip). We started doing this recently and it takes care of all 0-day attachment virii... unless they happen to use our naming scheme..
For reasons I can't comprehend, there appears to be a total stop on all my email. My own mail server is receiving nothing -- strange, since normally I get about 50 spam emails per hour. Likewise, email is not coming into my yahoo mailbox, nor my ISP mailbox. I triggered some third party sites to send email to various accounts, and it does not come in, to any of my three different email servers (of course, my own mail server and my ISP's are just a couple hops apart, and mail.yahoo.com is notoriously slow at times, so I dunno what's up). Is anyone else seeing a "total stop" in internet email activity? I was worried that this was a virus on my mail server, so I ran a different virus check -- and it reports a "possible" infection of the file slmail.cpl. And of course, Google blocks my attempts to search for references to that file name, although when I search for "slmail cpl" I was able to find a reference to a "hack" for SLmail. I've uninstalled and re-installed SLmail but the same alert comes up, which makes me think it may be a false alarm, but of course I can't tell, and the slmail.com web site is not responding. (I chose to use SLmail because it's not often targetted by virus and trojan writers -- was I wrong?) Any advice on the slmail.cpl issue would certainly be appreciated.
-- http://www.MarkWelch.com/ Pleasanton California
It seems like the latest MyDoom worm variant has caused a bit of an Internet storm.
The server for http://isc.sans.org/ is no longer accessable, due to this.
Isn't there some variant that even warns you to disable AV protection because it will raise a 'false' alarm? Sometimes they even masquerade as a message from support@mycompany.com so the (l)user even thinks they are being helpful.
See my journal, I write things there
i got this when i simply searched for 'mailinator', but it doenst seem to be giving the error any longer.
-- john
Thank god I live in the ass-end of the world (Australia) and we're still Googling away.. (google.com.au)
:)
Seems we're forgotten by viruses DoS as well.
The first mydoom.A striked the Web on 26 JAN... guess what?? Today is 26 JULY wow, it has a huge impact..
The reason MS doesn't patch security holes is because they can launch DDOS attacks on competitors that refuse to be bought out, like Google...
I don't know the meaning of the word 'don't' - J
... this past weeks osma bin ladin and the governator viruses?
Not speaking/writing English natively, together with most of the world confusing those two as you point out, I've never *exactly* figured out what those two really meant. I better make a note of this somewhere...
Witness the marvel of the Windoze desktop. First, there's the plethora of technical BS admins try to cram into their user's heads via ... popup messages that must be clicked "OK" for the user to do even simple tasks. The average corporate user also suffers a veritable flood of "communist propaganda" to their inboxes, which must be read for fear of missing something important, much of it attachments. The company and M$ has trained them to click without reading, so you are surprised how? Then there's double extensions, extension hiding and all the dozens of "executable" extensions to keep up with! Even users with a clue have a hard time. Between that environment and the stupid way Outlook runs as root and can write to system folders, you get MyDoom internet storms. You don't have to be an idiot to get viruses on Windoze, you have to be a fucking genius to avoid them.
Fsecure is still up and has a reasonable description of how this M$ carried dissease gets around. It's a little dated and for this one menace there dozens of versions that have gone full auto by taking advantage of other holes, like download.ject did. Oh well.
The real idiots are administrators who still recommend the same platform for their place of work that's caused them all of these problems. How many times are YOU going to be fooled? It's not convincing your users.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
I just tried searching for "site:ii.com mailsnare", and got alternating forbidden and "server error" results.
"site:gov mailsnare" works fine. Go figure.
May we never see th
If I searched on the word "mail" or anything with the word "mail" in it, I got a "Forbidden" error from Google telling me I was unauthorized to see the results. I sent in two reports of it to Google - hope they don't mind!
Why is MyDoom a Microsoft problem?
I mean, I'm more than happy to blame Microsoft when Microsoft screws up, but I can't see how there was any technical error that Microsoft made that resulted in MyDoom where the Linux world does better.
May we never see th
OK, so if Microsoft comes out with an antivirus product, what incentive do they have to immunize Windows-based computers against worms that attack their competitors? (i.e. Google vs MSN Search).
.gov).
Because MSNBC, FoxNews, CNN and the Department of Homeland Security are always spouting about Internet Explorer and security exploits. Not having an active approach against those would be suicide for Microsoft.
I doubt a great many large organizations or governments (IE Customers) would appreciate Microsoft altogether ignoring major explotis and viruses because they affect the competition.
I know this for a fact, and already our site is mostly Linux (my hostname ends with
Can I get an eye poke?
Dog House Forum
Google has a lot of computer scientists and techies, and all they need to do is write a quick regex to match these "banned" searches, slap a 72-hour ban on any IP that's the source of more than, say, 1000 "banned" searches in a day, reply with a static page that says "SOL, your request came from an infected computer, contact your sysadmin" and then start looking for a more fundamental and elegant solution for a long-term fix.
They'll have this patched over in less than 24 hours, for certain.
May we never see th
Here's a post with a little thought in it. It's not the user, it's M$'s crappy software. The long and complicated steps you talk about are not found in fsecure's description, so I have no idea what user intervention you are talking about. I'm also used to the variants boing full auto more than I'm used to them depending on some poor hapless user pulling ROT13.
So enlighten us. How would you have handled this in your hypothetical email client that engineers user stupidity away. I'll even let you pick the OS you'll be running it on so you don't have to be saddled by the deficiencies of "Windoze".
Users trained to click things all day are not stupid, their software is. Kmail on any OS only hands files to clients for viewing. The long chain of exploits are missing there and you don't know what client my users have for a given file type. Files are never saved with executable permission turned on. There is no system wide registry for you to hide in. The list of dumb stuff M$ did to make this possible goes on. The most important thing is that my users are not conditioned to click things without reading them. Free software users don't see many "I submit" buttons and stupid workarounds to Windoze's core inability to easily share work.
Hows that for a ray of sunshine? You need to get out more.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Google simply can't do a search for something with a period in it. It's because of the way that internet addresses work. Notice the URL in your address bar when you search for "slashdot.org" in Google. If you search for just plain old "slashdot" there are no problems.
If you ask me, this is more like a fail-safe in Google so that the virus won't use Google to harm you. Because this variant of MyDoom uses search engines to hurt other people by searching for e-mail domains like "@yahoo.com" to find e-mails.
Oh, and to keep this variant of MyDoom from screwing with your computer, you could always NOT use your computer's address book and try writing stuff down on paper, or putting it into NotePad instead.
Don't believe everything you read online. Google still works fine. I've run all sorts of searches, and they all worked. You people are all too paranoid.
Latest MyDoom search engine use (initial analysis. more details, and eventual corrections, will be posted as they become available) The latest version of MyDoom, which started arriving in peoples mail boxes in force today, uses search eninges to find more recipients for its message. Once the virus is started, it searched the users files for domain names. Once it spotted a domain name (e.g. '@example.com', or in 'www.example.com'), it will search various search engines for valid e-mail addresses within these domains. These search engines include Lycos, Google, Altavista, Yahoo and possibly others. Some of the search strings used: http://search.lycos.com/default.asp?lpv=1&loc=sear chhp&tab=web&query=%s &nbq=%d
http://www.altavista.com/web/results?q=%s&kgs=0&kl s=0 &n=%d
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%s&ei=UTF-8&fr=fp -tab-web-t&cop=mss&tab= &num=%d
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF -8&q=%s
Google and Lycos appear to have problems responding to queries as a result.
Antivirus vendors are currently publishing updated signature files. Please update ASAP. Infected machines can be identified by looking for excessive traffic to search engines and smtp traffic.
The virus is UPX packed, after unpacking, the following strings are evident:
(a) Strings that suggest that the virus attempts to decode obfuscated e-mail addresses .dot. _dot_ (dot) at _at_ (at) .at.
(b) Mail headers for outbound mail
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="%s"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Date:
Subject: %s
To: %s
From: %s
(c) Strings that are appreantly used to avoid certain e-mail addresses:
mailer-d spam abuse master sample accoun privacycertific bugs listserv submit ntivi support admin page the.bat gold-certs feste help soft site rating your someone anyone nothing nobody noone info winrar winzip rarsoft sf.net sourceforge ripe. arin. google gnu. gmail seclist secur bar. foo.com trend update uslis domain example sophos yahoo spersk panda hotmail msn. msdn. microsoft sarc. syma
Anti Virus Vendor Links:
http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/defau lt5.asp?VName=WORM_MYDOOM.M
http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=desc ription&virus_k=127033
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32mydoom o.html
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc /data/w32.mydoom.m@mm.html
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/mydoom_m.shtml
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/virus .aspx?id=39711
http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/encycloped ia/overview.aspx?IdVirus=49861&sind=0
http://www.viruslist.com/eng/alert.html?id=1927068
http://www.grisoft.com/virbase/virbase.php?lng=us& type=web&action=view&qvirus=086fda5c5c9e70 00
Non-System foot or foot error. remove from mouth and strike any key when ready
http://money.cnn.com/2004/07/26/technology/google
Fake DNS registration for google.com by gandi.net.0 3037
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=115798&cid=98
Email worm Mydoom.o breaks out infecting Windows boxes across the planet. Part of the payload are searches against Google, Lycos, Yahoo, and Altavista (but not Microsoft) for email addresses from an infected domain.
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_127033.htm
Internet users report google.com hit hard by virus activity. Google starts blocking searches from infected domains/regions. Users also report that other search engines like Yahoo have significantly degraded performance.
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/25010.htm
Mainstream press picks up the news of Google's issues._ site/index.htm?cnn=yes
http://money.cnn.com/2004/07/26/technology/google
You can't buy this kind of competitor slamming and market cornering on Internet searching in one day... or can you?
Speak truth to power.
What makes you think it's "she" ? ;-)
Look, ass, I've seen the environment I'm talking about first hand. Yes, I've also seen Outlook auto rooted, with no action on my part. The stupid exchange "admin" did not believe what I said and had to do it for herself. After seeing it, she still did not understand the magnitude of what she had witnessed, saying "I get those all the time, it's part of normal advertising." Yep, she had remote access to everyone in the company's desktop and had her own machine rooted out already. The only thing dumber than Outlook was the person who recommended and oversaw it. I don't have those problems.
Last I looked (and I use Evolution really) KMail lets me save attached files just fine, regardless of what they contain. And then I can open them by double-clicking on them in Nautilus.
But they are not executables and they won't run. You might have an exploit for a particular program, but there's no such thing as MyDumb for Linux.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
CNN is on behind me, and they've been talking about nothing but Google's IPO. Seems like really bad timing for Google. :-(
I'd go so far as to say it was intentionally "bad" timing, on the part of the virus author...
Irritable, left-wing and possibly humorous bumper stickers and t-shirts
But an invalid one. Roman notation cannot be used for representing digits, only numbers.
"...That's the sound of the joke flying right over your head..."
Yeah, way too subtle. Good thing that
The scoop: google returned 403 on mail-related queries, putting frequent abusers on a banlist. IP's on the banlist receive 503. From what I can gather, Google had no performance/scalability issues. The only negative side-effect was innocent IP's being put on the banlist, for example some webproxy's.
Why don't they just switch to linux? Then they don't have to worry.
I wonder if Google could get in trouble by redoing the search engine to respond to MyDoom queries with random, valid email addresses from the microsoft.com domain... I mean, why not let the machines write home? I suppose they could occasionally list abuse@ftc.gov and a few other choice ones as well.
I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress -J Adams
It is efficient enough to spread fast and wide. By the time Google had a chance to respond to this the virus had probably attacked 90% of the targets at least once. All Google could do is to reduce followon attacks somewhat. I was hit 450 times, that is not counting the attacks that the spam filter just disconnected on.
I don't think the real target was Google. MyDoom has been launched several times and 2 out of 3 times there has been an uptick in phishing fraud attacks just afterwards. I don't think that the target was really SCO or Microsoft. Attacking them was just a way to throw investigators off the trail and also to work out which machines would make reliable zombies.
These guys use zombie machines for several purposes. they use them to send spam, to capture credit card numbers and to hide their tracks.
I think it is time to admit defeat with the anti-virus scanning software. We should simply block all executable attachments and zip files containing executable code. Fortunately most encrypted zip file formats do not encrypt the manifest so encrypted files can be blocked.
This type of technology can be written once and is then pretty much maintenance free. Maybe an occasional tweak but nothing like the constant need to work out the signatures of new viruses.
Looking for an Information Security student project suggestion?
Try http://dotcrimeManifesto.com/
Stock message boards at finance.yahoo.com don't deliver any new postings after 1:13pm. I wonder whether this is Yahoo's reaction to Google's IPO pricing? (just joking)
Hey, has anyone who can't get to www.google.com or re having problems with search tried any of Google's other data centers?
http://www2.google.com
http://www3.google.com
Or select from an even bigger list of "Google mirrors".
Hope this helps!
...unfortunately no one can be told what The Mat^H^H^HGoatse is...they must experience it for themselves...
I've noticed several high traffic Yahoo finance boards haven't seen any new posts since 1:13pm EDT. That's 5 hours now - no posts on msft, ibm, scox, to name a few (where normally there would be at least several dozens of posts on each of those boards in that span).
The same for procmail, but oddly also "postfix" at the time.
I have no further comments....
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
Search on Kartoo (worldwide) for "google", and it somehow seems to miss google.com as one of the sites related to "google". Pretty impressive.
Cool that you're comment made it to +5 though.
One simple rule for its versus it's
We share a world where lose == loose, accept == except, people "aks" questions about "nu-cue-lar" weapons, and write "seperate".
And you're in the least bit surprised by -- or hopeful that you can influence any improvement in -- the misuse of "e.g." & "i.e."?
You think YOU have problems?
*I* live in the hell of knowing the proper use of unsplit infinitives, subjunctive mood, and "decimate"!
Yahoo has grown into a great search engine lately. Get over your google favoritism and try other search engines. Google used to be way ahead of the competition, now other search engines match it in relevancy.
Isnt everything else other than Microsoft immune to viruses and attacks. Oh gee you mean its all a lie!
I use Copernic - cross-searches several and saves search results to disk. Can also automatically weed out dead links. More recent versions with more features available but I haven't bothered as Copernic does everything I need.
Well, since they are only used in English and not in other languages, yes I'd say so.
Unless you count knowledge of the dead language Latin as a prerequisite.
You might even say that those are now English abbreviations with the origin from Latin, since that is what the reality is (languages evolve, you know?)
I'd beg to differ. Here at work, executable attachments are screened out going in or out of the company. *wry grin* Problem is, we're in the business of software, and this policy has a nasty tendency to strip off patches we send to customers. We're slowly getting them used to connecting to an FTP site, but sending the programs in an email makes it more likely that they'llget to it immediately. Sending FTP addresses, they'll often just bookmark it. *wry grin* And how long will it take before the virus writers figure to switch back to clickable links, making them look like ZIP files as attachments? Honestly, I think that as long as there are people who'll open their door to strangers showing up at 3 AM, there will be people who click on virus attachments in email.
This sig has absolutely no significance and serves only to take up screen space and waste the time of the reader.
A rather funny coincidence that these stories should appear next to each other on google news.
moo
I'm betting Google has already had mechanisms in place to deny service to networks and hosts that flood it with connections or requests for a long time.
So any network which had a high rate of MyDoom infection would quickly be denied service.
Which probably means every single major news organizations' networks. Sigh...
Terrorists can attack freedom, but only Congress can destroy it.
Who wants to bet on whether or not this is industrial sabotage done by a competing company, conveniently timed to coincide with Google's IPO?
I can't imagine anyone having a bone to pick with Google. That is, unless they're a direct competitor. Even kiddies seem to think Google is the best thing since automated root kits.
~/ssh slashdot.org ssh: connect to host slashdot.org port 22: too many beers
Google openly celebrates how their search engine is totally run by a Linux system.
...
I love this so much!
whether or not google was directly attacked by the virus, or just as a DDOS
the virus brought down the Linux system.
bwaaaaahahahahahahaha
dumbass Linux fools.