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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!!!
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...
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.
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?
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
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.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.)
Yeah and google.us is currently invading the penguins of Antarctica for their weapons of mass searches
Repeat after me: We are all individuals