OK, maybe you're right, but according to
symantec:
Backdoor routine
The worm also opens a listening port on port 1080. A hacker can connect to this port and perform the following actions:
Delete files.
Terminate processes.
List processes and deliver the list to the hacker.
Copy files.
Start processes.
List files and deliver the list to the hacker.
Deliver intercepted keystrokes to the hacker in an encrypted form. This action could release confidential information typed on a computer (passwords, login details, and so on).
Deliver the system information to the worm's creator in the following form:
User: <user name>
Processor: <type of processor used>
Windows version: <Windows version, build number>
Memory information: <Memory available, and so on>
Local drives, their types (for example, fixed/removable/RAM disk/CD-ROM/remote), as well as their physical characteristics.
List the network resources and their types, and deliver the list to the worm's creator.
This went through my workplace like wildfire today
on
Yet Another Windows Worm
·
· Score: 2, Informative
I don't know the damage yet, but hundreds of PCs running that other OS were infected. One interesting thing is it opens port 1080, which is normally used by MSN messenger. Try this on your network:
Check out the machines with port 1080 open. Then switch to a less infectious OS.
GOLDEN BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY
on
SCO SCO SCO!
·
· Score: 5, Funny
I am an Attorney and close confidant of MRS. MARYAM
GOTCHA, the former first lady and wife of the late
GENERAL RAY GOTCHA, the former head of state and
commander in chief of the armed forces of the Federal
Republic of Utahwonga.
She (MRS. M. GOTCHA), has as a result of the trust and
confidence she has in me mandated that I search for a
reliable and trustworthy foreign partner, who
will help receive some UNIX source code which she has
totaling Five Million United States LOC into a personal,
company or any reliable foreign Unix-like system for
safe keeping for a short period of time, since her family
computer accounts within and outside the country have
all been frozen by the authorities.
This source code in question has however, been carefully
kept in defaced form and deposited with a security
company that has branches in Europe and America.
You may therefore be required to travel to any
of the branches to collect the source code on behalf of my
client for safe keeping.
I shall let you into a complete picture of this mutually
beneficial transaction when I have received your anticipated
positive reply. This matter should be treated as urgent and confidential. This is very important.
PS, it's very important that you maintain your current good
relationship with Dr. Linus. Only he has the keys to the
vault in which we must deposit our Five Million United
States LOC. When added to the Millions of LOC already
there, we will
all become very rich.
Things were going a bit slowly with the Multiverse creation, so Gods Ken and Dennis went back to the Garden of Bell and created the Universe. Then their supervisor YHWH got credit for it and the rest is History.
From the reiserfs-list:
Ok, here is reiserfs utils directory for linux-2.4.1-pre7:
ftp://ftp.reiserfs.org/pub/2.4/linux-2.4.1-pre7-re iserfs-utils-patch.bz2
To use it just put the patch in "linux/../" directory
with pure linux-2.4.1-pre7 and:
Also, there is a patch to fs/super.c which you
should apply if you are using ReiserFS for a root
filesystem.
You can see the message and the patch
here:
TurboLinux founders Cliff and Iris Miller have begun a new company,
Mountain View Data, along with
Peter Braam known for the Coda and InterMezzo
file systems. Braam was associated (and perhaps still is) with
TurboLabs
in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
You mentioned in the second Linux Today article that you intend to integrate TUX with Apache. However, Apache has always been a cross-platform server and is heavily used on
*BSD and Solaris. Do you feel that this integration will undermine the portability work of the Apache team, or will it simply provide an incentive for web servers to be running Linux? [...]
Ingo: TUX is a kernel subsystem with a small amount of user-space glue code to make it
easier to use the TUX system-call. I believe that integrating kernel-based HTTP protocol stacks into Apache makes sense - i dont think this will 'undermine' anything, to the contrary, it
will enable similar solutions on other OSs as well.
This doesn't directly apply to Apache on a Linux 2.2 system (somebody remind DELL that there is no such thing as Linux 6.2), but for a glimpse into the future, check out the SPECweb99
2nd quarter
and
3rd quarter
results.
This shows how a bleeding edge webserver, TUX 1.0, running on a tweaked 2.4.0-testX box can outperform a virtually identical box running IIS 5.0. Curiously enough, these are DELL boxes, and the tests were performed by DELL.
I understand that it is hoped that the advanced features of TUX 1.0 will eventually make their way into Apache.
I've been using ReiserFS for about six months now, and have been very happy with it. On my home system, the electrical power is much more likely to glitch, and the journalling system always comes up without any problems, and very quickly. You might say "get a UPS" but a UPS is bulky, expensive, etc.
At work I have five workstations and two servers running ReiserFS. These have performed flawlessly over the past several months, as they have been eased into production.
The ReiserFS folks have been really good about finding and fixing bugs. Recently, a bug was discovered which crashed the system with ReiserFS-3.6 systems if you saved a file from Star Office on top of itself on an NFS server. That bug was eliminated with ReiserFS-3.6.17 in just a few days after being reported.
Since ReiserFS isn't merged into the official kernel tree, when you want to try out the latest kernel, you have to patch ReiserFS into the system yourself, but that is quite easy.
I look forward to the day when ReiserFS and these others are merged into the kernel. By the way, the 2.4 kernel is quite nice. Try copying a file several times your memory size from one disk to another (a 600 mb iso image should do the trick) on both 2.2.x and 2.4.0-test9pre-whatever. And try to do something with your system during the copy. You'll become addicted to 2.4.0, I promise you. Its wonderful.
Here is
the link
to the system which you referred to. The CPlant is quite
impressive, 1,600 alphas running on Linux.
But its definately not the same system as the new 12,000 cpu 30 TeraOp ASCI EV68-based dream machine.
Now what would be _cool_ is if during checkout someone were to try out 2.4.0-test103 and find out that it actually outperforms Tru64 for certain classes of problems.
The reference to 2.4.0-test103 is based on the rate of test kernels, and the projected delivery time of this new machine. I hope that 2.4.0 final is available much sooner than that.
Here is
the link.
The building to house this monster is under
construction and ahead of schedule. At 16.5 KW apiece, thats over 6 MW just to power the boxes.
Congrats on the other patch, but looking at
the way the watchpoint patch was archived
here at
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com, it is
possible that other developers on the list never actually saw the second patch, but rather something that got somehow garbaged up along the way.
Just a thought. I only saw this garbaged up patch; I can see that you really do know how to submit a patch when the MTAs and MUAs cooperate.
Good luck.
As has been mentioned elsewhere, contacting
the maintainer is first, best step. For the
particular would-be patch which inspired this
story, the maintainer's name and email address
is now listed at the top of the source for/usr/src/linux/arch/i388/traps.c
in the 2.4.0-test7 kernel tree. This information was missing in the 2.2.x series tree.
As you know, lkml traffic is now between 150 to 200 messages a day. I looked through the archives, and I might suggest the following subject line for your submission on 6-21-2000:
[PATCH] Fix to watchpoint problems in traps.c
The patch in your 6-23-2000 submission (at least in the kernel mailing list archives) is not in the form typically used, namely the output of
diff.
Thanks for the info. ReiserFS 3.5.24 is the current patch for 2.2.16, so that's apparently consistent with 2.2.17.
I'm currently grabbing the 7.2 inst iso from:
I recently tried out 2.4.0-test7 with the patch
for Reiserfs 3.6.14, and it seemed to work fine.
I'll download the iso for 7.2 tomorrow and see what is there. In the meantime, if anybody knows what is really in 7.2 beta 1, please let us know.
Like, which kernel 2.4.0-testX, is it really?
And, which version of Reiserfs is supplied?
For some benchmarks, test5 seems to be a temporary high water mark.
NEW YORK (CNNfn) - Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com announced Monday that they have joined forces in an initiative to sell digital books over the Internet.
I work at a well known National Laboratory.
We have used Linux at a DOE-sponsored nuclear facility since 1993. The use of Linux was implicitly approved by the US Department of Energy since its use in our data acquisition and control system is documented in our formal Safety Analysis Report.
The only time the Linux boxes stop working is when power is lost, which is quite rare (we have a good UPS). I once had a two year uptime on one system.
Of course, we're now using Linux for the usual SAMBA and webserver stuff as well.
This link to the
Avalon
system at Los Alamos may be reachable from the outside. I'm inside the firewall right now, so I can't verify if the link will work for the rest of you (it works for me). There is another relatively new Beowulf cluster at Los Alamos, 128 dual processor P-III's, IIRC, named Rockhopper. Sorry, don't have any links for that machine. Some of the folks who put that machine together now work for the TurboLabs division of TurboLinux.
My brand new VA FullOn 2230 has been up an running all of 13 days, since it was first booted up.
Since it came configured as a server, I did have one minor software-related glitch. I use gnuplot to produce dynamic output for the webserver, and RH 6.2 configured as a server didn't have that installed. This problem took about 60 seconds to solve, since I had to go get a library from another machine to make it all work.
My employer, a Federal Agency, prefers Dell as a just-in-time supplier. I got a quote for an almost identically equipped Dell server, and it was $2400 more than the VA rack-mount box.
I use Linux-Mandrake 7.1 at home and on several of my workstations at work because I like the ease of setting up ReiserFS, but after hearing this story, I'm glad I left my machine configured as shipped.
According to Caldera, they have released their Developer Preview of Linux Technology which is described:
Caldera's Linux 2.4 Technology Preview includes:
Preview of Linux 2.4 kernel technology
Beta preview of Java 2 platform for Linux, version 1.3
Java HotSpot Client and Server Virtual Machines
glibc 2.1.91: (2.2 beta)
Latest C/C++ Linux development tools
KDE 2.0 Development Snapshot
Improved USB support
PHP3 and PHP4 for rapid development of dynamic Web sites
This is not to be confused with Caldera's confusing versioning scheme in which 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4 all were based on Linux kernel 2.2.x. Maybe Caldera will jump up to 7.0 when the real 2.4.0-honest-to-God comes out in October 200x, and RedHat, Mandrake, Slackware, and SuSE all come out with 8.0.
With the support of volunteers ftp site administrators, Pinstripe is available from several mirrors. The following have complete copies of Pinstripe, please use a mirror close to you:
Slashdot Mirror
Backdoor routine
The worm also opens a listening port on port 1080. A hacker can connect to this port and perform the following actions:
nmap -sN -p 1080 AAA.BBB.CCC.*
and
nmap -sT -p 1080 AAA.BBB.CCC.*
Check out the machines with port 1080 open. Then switch to a less infectious OS.
She (MRS. M. GOTCHA), has as a result of the trust and confidence she has in me mandated that I search for a reliable and trustworthy foreign partner, who will help receive some UNIX source code which she has totaling Five Million United States LOC into a personal, company or any reliable foreign Unix-like system for safe keeping for a short period of time, since her family computer accounts within and outside the country have all been frozen by the authorities.
This source code in question has however, been carefully kept in defaced form and deposited with a security company that has branches in Europe and America. You may therefore be required to travel to any of the branches to collect the source code on behalf of my client for safe keeping.
I shall let you into a complete picture of this mutually beneficial transaction when I have received your anticipated positive reply. This matter should be treated as urgent and confidential. This is very important.
PS, it's very important that you maintain your current good relationship with Dr. Linus. Only he has the keys to the vault in which we must deposit our Five Million United States LOC. When added to the Millions of LOC already there, we will all become very rich.
Best Regards,
Dr.Darl McBloodsukr
Things were going a bit slowly with the Multiverse creation, so Gods Ken and Dennis went back to the Garden of Bell and created the Universe. Then their supervisor YHWH got credit for it and the rest is History.
Eliminate any spaces you see in the following URL:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l= reiserfs&m=97965219413577&w=2
Ok, here is reiserfs utils directory for linux-2.4.1-pre7
ftp://ftp.reiserfs.org/pub/2.4/linux-2.4.1-pre7-r
To use it just put the patch in "linux/../" directory with pure linux-2.4.1-pre7 and :
# bzcat linux-2.4.1-pre7-reiserfs-utils-patch.bz2 | patch -p0
Also, there is a patch to fs/super.c which you should apply if you are using ReiserFS for a root filesystem.
You can see the message and the patch here:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=reiserfs&m=9796521 9413577&w=2
You mentioned in the second Linux Today article that you intend to integrate TUX with Apache. However, Apache has always been a cross-platform server and is heavily used on *BSD and Solaris. Do you feel that this integration will undermine the portability work of the Apache team, or will it simply provide an incentive for web servers to be running Linux? [...]
Ingo: TUX is a kernel subsystem with a small amount of user-space glue code to make it easier to use the TUX system-call. I believe that integrating kernel-based HTTP protocol stacks into Apache makes sense - i dont think this will 'undermine' anything, to the contrary, it will enable similar solutions on other OSs as well.
This shows how a bleeding edge webserver, TUX 1.0, running on a tweaked 2.4.0-testX box can outperform a virtually identical box running IIS 5.0. Curiously enough, these are DELL boxes, and the tests were performed by DELL.
I understand that it is hoped that the advanced features of TUX 1.0 will eventually make their way into Apache.
At work I have five workstations and two servers running ReiserFS. These have performed flawlessly over the past several months, as they have been eased into production.
The ReiserFS folks have been really good about finding and fixing bugs. Recently, a bug was discovered which crashed the system with ReiserFS-3.6 systems if you saved a file from Star Office on top of itself on an NFS server. That bug was eliminated with ReiserFS-3.6.17 in just a few days after being reported.
Since ReiserFS isn't merged into the official kernel tree, when you want to try out the latest kernel, you have to patch ReiserFS into the system yourself, but that is quite easy.
I look forward to the day when ReiserFS and these others are merged into the kernel. By the way, the 2.4 kernel is quite nice. Try copying a file several times your memory size from one disk to another (a 600 mb iso image should do the trick) on both 2.2.x and 2.4.0-test9pre-whatever. And try to do something with your system during the copy. You'll become addicted to 2.4.0, I promise you. Its wonderful.
But its definately not the same system as the new 12,000 cpu 30 TeraOp ASCI EV68-based dream machine.
Now what would be _cool_ is if during checkout someone were to try out 2.4.0-test103 and find out that it actually outperforms Tru64 for certain classes of problems.
The reference to 2.4.0-test103 is based on the rate of test kernels, and the projected delivery time of this new machine. I hope that 2.4.0 final is available much sooner than that.
Yes, that is the reference. Chyeburashka or Cheburashka is one of my daughter's favorite cartoon characters. I like Crocodile Gena too.
Total of 24 processors activated (19149.62 BogoMIPS).
Just a thought. I only saw this garbaged up patch; I can see that you really do know how to submit a patch when the MTAs and MUAs cooperate. Good luck.
As has been mentioned elsewhere, contacting the maintainer is first, best step. For the particular would-be patch which inspired this story, the maintainer's name and email address is now listed at the top of the source for /usr/src/linux/arch/i388/traps.c
in the 2.4.0-test7 kernel tree. This information was missing in the 2.2.x series tree.
[PATCH] Fix to watchpoint problems in traps.c
The patch in your 6-23-2000 submission (at least in the kernel mailing list archives) is not in the form typically used, namely the output of diff.
Please don't be discouraged, and try again.
ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.mandrake-linux.com/M andrake-iso/7.2beta/i586/
Actually, the 2.2.17 news is good. 2.4.0-test7 and 2.4.0-test8pre4 seem to be still having problems with the truncate bug.
Soviet Union, which formally ceased to exist 25 December 1991.
If you want to "read" the page, select View, Character Set, Cyrillic (Windows-1251). Obviously, the Evil Empire is at work in the former Evil Empire.
I recently tried out 2.4.0-test7 with the patch for Reiserfs 3.6.14, and it seemed to work fine.
I'll download the iso for 7.2 tomorrow and see what is there. In the meantime, if anybody knows what is really in 7.2 beta 1, please let us know. Like, which kernel 2.4.0-testX, is it really? And, which version of Reiserfs is supplied? For some benchmarks, test5 seems to be a temporary high water mark.
The story is here. Sigh.
Of course, we're now using Linux for the usual SAMBA and webserver stuff as well.
This link to the Avalon system at Los Alamos may be reachable from the outside. I'm inside the firewall right now, so I can't verify if the link will work for the rest of you (it works for me). There is another relatively new Beowulf cluster at Los Alamos, 128 dual processor P-III's, IIRC, named Rockhopper. Sorry, don't have any links for that machine. Some of the folks who put that machine together now work for the TurboLabs division of TurboLinux.
Since it came configured as a server, I did have one minor software-related glitch. I use gnuplot to produce dynamic output for the webserver, and RH 6.2 configured as a server didn't have that installed. This problem took about 60 seconds to solve, since I had to go get a library from another machine to make it all work.
My employer, a Federal Agency, prefers Dell as a just-in-time supplier. I got a quote for an almost identically equipped Dell server, and it was $2400 more than the VA rack-mount box.
I use Linux-Mandrake 7.1 at home and on several of my workstations at work because I like the ease of setting up ReiserFS, but after hearing this story, I'm glad I left my machine configured as shipped.
Caldera's Linux 2.4 Technology Preview includes:
This is not to be confused with Caldera's confusing versioning scheme in which 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4 all were based on Linux kernel 2.2.x. Maybe Caldera will jump up to 7.0 when the real 2.4.0-honest-to-God comes out in October 200x, and RedHat, Mandrake, Slackware, and SuSE all come out with 8.0.
With the support of volunteers ftp site administrators, Pinstripe is available from several mirrors. The following have complete copies of Pinstripe, please use a mirror close to you:
North Carolina, USA:r ipe/ s tripe/
ftp://metalab. unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/beta/pinst
http://metala b.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/beta/pin
California, USA:p e/ r ipe/
ftp://ftp.sourc eforge.net/pub/mirrors/redhat/redhat/beta/pinstri
http://ftp.sou rceforge.net/pub/mirrors/redhat/redhat/beta/pinst
California, USA: /pub/mirrors/redhat/redhat/beta/pinstripe/
ftp://ftp.kernel.org
http://www.kernel.o rg/pub/mirrors/redhat/redhat/beta/pinstripe/
Connecticut, USA: /beta/pinstripe/
ftp://ftp.uselinux.org/pub/redhat
Indiana, USA: .purdue.edu/pub/redhat/beta/pinstripe/
ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn
http://csociety-ftp.e cn.purdue.edu/pub/redhat/beta/pinstripe/
Michigan, USA: ftp://mrhankey.bizserve.com/pub/linux/redhat/ftp.r edhat.com/redhat/beta/pinstripe/
New York, USA: ftp://ftp.ee.cornell.edu/p ub/linux/redhat/beta/pinstripe
Pennsylvania, USA: ftp ://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/red hat/redhat/beta/pinstripe/
Pennsylvania, USA: ftp://cronus.res. cmu.edu/pub/linux/ftp.redhat.com/beta/pinstripe/
Tennessee, USA: ftp://sunsite.utk.edu /pub/linux/redhat/redhat/beta/pinstripe/ /
http://sunsite.u tk.edu/ftp/pub/linux/redhat/redhat/beta/pinstripe
Australia: ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pu b/redhat/beta/pinstripe/
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/ pub/redhat/beta/pinstripe/
Germany: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/mirrors /redhat.com/redhat/beta/pinstripe/
Germany: .de/pub/linux/redhat/beta/pinstripe/
ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.d e/pub/linux/redhat/beta/pinstripe/
http://ftp.uni-bayreuth
Norway: (ISO images only) ftp ://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/red hat/redhat/beta/pinstripe/
Peru: ftp://sajino.terra.com.p e/pub/linux/redhat/beta/pinstripe/
Japan: ftp://ftp.kddl abs.co.jp/Linux/packages/RedHat/redhat/beta/pinstr ipe/