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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 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.
Google is down ... the world is ending! The beginning of the apocalypse! (I can't even check if I spelled that right without google)
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...
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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Programming is like sex... Make one mistake and support it the rest of your life.
...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...
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
gmail still works tho, hrm.
You work in corporate communications, don't you?
How dare this amazingly useful -- cant live without -- service i pay nothing for go down?!?!
Sometimes I wish computers were less friendly.
For Denial of Google.
Why not (since it's windows programming), create an IE object and have it return the results, this it would appear to Google to be nothing more than just normal traffic?
III.IIVIVIXIIVIVIIIVVIIIIXVIIIXIIIIIIIIVIIIIVVIII
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
No problem, what's your e-mail address? I can forward you ten examples of the results of this error...
-Rob
Marriage doesn't have to suck!
I tried google.fr and I saw that it had surrendered to the virus.
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.
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.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.
CowsAnonymous: We're here to help moo.
They sent out the email to.. not open your email
How amazingly typical.
Just because you disagree doesn't make it offtopic or flamebait.
"You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the OC-3 to boobies.chemist.com, but that's just peanuts to Google. Listen...", and so on.
(After a while the style settles down a bit and it begins to tell you things you really need to know, like the fact that Google has different DNS entries depending on which server you look them up from, which is only a partial solution to the bandwidth problem -- so that despite the DNS tricks, any net imbalance between the packets you send to Google and the packets Google sends back to you, must be surgically removed from your pipe: so every time you type "natalie portman hot grits" into images.google.com, it is vitally important to get a receipt.)
People, its a server-side problem, you can have the problem running lynx on your toaster
I get a -27 error:
Clearly Google is running on pre OS X Macs:
-27 abortEr IO call aborted by KillIO
-S
...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]
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?
Works fine for me... just search for "Google Server Error" and click "I'm Feeling Lucky" =)
Does it have a UA string like "MyDoom-O (1.0 final)" or anything?
Any answer's?
Yeah and google.us is currently invading the penguins of Antarctica for their weapons of mass searches
Repeat after me: We are all individuals