Better find a new security hole then as this is closing the door to msblaster's hosts. So basically the "next" worm would have to find another vulnerabilty in Windoze to get to the W32/Nachi worm
But since its gotten in a "host" a new way the W32/Nachi worm is of little concern since its trying to kill the old worm.
But what this will do is make leet hackers trying to industrialize thier worms. Such things as taking more control over the system, disabling all traffic to Microsoft, attacking virus protection, or even close the door themselves so that cleaner worms or "copy-cat" worms can't get in.
The evolution of the "worm" has begun.
The other question I have is whether or not the W32/Nachi worm cleans up itself it it can not find a host to spread to. The "cure" may turn out to be no better then msblaster if it generates massive network traffic looking for new hosts.
If there are no lines of code in Linux as they state then they are giving out misleading statements and false claims. Not to mention selling a new product (the license) and making it look as this is a new source of income.
The SEC is extremely anal about anything that misleads investors or even looks like a pump and dump scheme. The SEC might not a penny from you in penalties, but will throw 20 government employeed lawyers at SCO them and halt the stock from trading. (ya.. more legal expenses)
First low power consumption is become more and more and issue. Electricity is not cheap, and with more and more computers in organizations, they are looking for ways to cut down on the electricity bill.
This is two fold because with lower power consumption means less heat. Walla.. save MORE electricity by not running huge, or as many air conditioning units.
This even falls back to home use. 10 years ago running your own home server was a "pipe dream" and not needed. Now just about every slashdot reader has some sort of server(s) running. I myself only run a Duron 1000 due to is low power consumption and cooler temperatures. For serving up files and a few dns, web hits is more then enough. After switch DOWN from a Palamino cored Athlon to this, I saw my monthly electric usage decline.
And your mention of not needing to market is just wrong. They should be out there stating...
We run cooler.. We run cheaper..
And add in a few plugs.. We run faster, better, cheaper, blah blah blah. Go to the extent of showing a picture of an Athlon frying an egg on one picture and a piece of ice sitting on a Trasmetta CPU. And by marketing their name, people come to know it, and trust it more, which mean people will be more interested in products with their chips, which mean more companies will seek out Transmetta chips which mean more revenue.
Why does BASF advertise.. "We dont make 'jack', we just make 'jack' better"
Sure.. but if the universe is expanding.. what is it expanding in? Or is the universe creating "area"? And if its creating a defined size, a dimension, heck a cube that is called the universe, what is that in?
Sure.. but SCO's claim is that since they have been using it for the past "two decades" its not an issue.
I mean come on. You can't be sued for implementing something , distributing it, have the other company KNOW that its in there, and never say a word until it wants to.
IBM urges its customers to use non-warranted, unprotected software. This software violates SCO's intellectual property rights in UNIX, and fails to give comfort to customers going forward in use of Linux.
This lets the cat out of the bag. SCO states "non-warranted, unprotected software"
Unprotected my little white ass. Its called the GPL ass wipes.. the same thing you are ranting about in your response and that no one has the balls to take on. Its not our fault that an un-warrented, unprotected software is kicking your ass.
And the ONLY reason it would need protection in the first place is because of Scum sucking worthless POS companies like you SCO.
And comfort.. wtf. Are my servers suppose to give me hugs and kisses daily? I feal dam comfortable running it. I dont have to put up with licensing BS. I dont have to put up with reporting a problem and waiting 4 fricken months for some fat developer to put down the donnuts and change 2 lines of code.
SCO.. you are violating my intellectual property by having to read such drivel and to put up with your Sheeeeooot!
IBM is going to bury your punk ass in 4 seperate patent suits which I hope you choke on.
I swear, the Iraqi Information Minister has got to be working for SCO!
This is what SCO is doing. This is a prime example of how people are feeling these days about SCO.
Lets face it, thier OS is in trouble when it comes to the ranks of UNIX admins for installation.
Maybe for HP, IBM, Sun, SGI, the OS of choice is dictated by the machine, but for Intel based processors its the Admin who gets to call the shots 99% of the time. Hey.. when you tell your manager its free and has development work being done by IBM.. its.. not... that.. hard..
So what does this lawsuit do? Tell every admin that SCO is evil, and not to buy there product.
They are not giving up, and are going to try to milk this for what they can, because they are to deap in and they know it. No one in there right mind will buy SCO anymore. They are a black listed company.
I can't wait to see Sun start sending out mailings to SCUM.. err.. SCO users. "Your SCO OS will soon fail to be supported. Try our upgrade!"
And when nabster was at its prime the record music industry had record sales.
How easily you dismiss that.
There were many people that pirated the music, but there were many more that use it as a "try and buy" services.
Tell ya what. Have the record industry produce the same number of CD's as it did in 1999 and then we will look at sales. Why they don't? It would invalidate there entire arguement.
Am I correct in saying that a router can be used at home to prevent these kinds of attacks in the first place?
Actually that is not correct. A "router" in a nutshell is just used to "route" traffic from point A to point B.
What what people need is a hardware based NAT switch with firewall firmware. It places that nice "buffer" zone between your machines and the web.
If if the NAT switch/firewall is compromised somehow, it will not get the hacker very far without the presence of an OS. Your boxes behind should still be safe (but left without networking).
Subject: 2)* Is the Motif source code publically available? [Last modified: Jan 02]
Answer: On May 15, 2000 the Open Group released the Motif source code for Motif 2.1, using a public license, to the Open Source community. On January 29, 2002, Open Motif 2.2 was released.
And hey it does not matter if you are white, black, Hispanic, Canadian or Native American. You are still a minority.
And guess what, India is an Affirmative action country.
So what would happen if American's moved to India, protested for jobs under India Affirmative Action, and then requested US salaries since they are still US citizens working for a US company?
Slashdot Mirror
No .. he actually took the time to include the link in html.
.. Dam SCO articles .. look what they are doing to me!
But after doing some research, it can be shown that your comment was copied from earlier prior work that is publically available.
Therefore claiming that he stole your intellectual property is a false and misleading claim.
Arg
Considering SCO repeats the same FUD and BS over and over again, why can't Slashdotters repeat the same jokes over and over?
Better find a new security hole then as this is closing the door to msblaster's hosts. So basically the "next" worm would have to find another vulnerabilty in Windoze to get to the W32/Nachi worm
But since its gotten in a "host" a new way the W32/Nachi worm is of little concern since its trying to kill the old worm.
But what this will do is make leet hackers trying to industrialize thier worms. Such things as taking more control over the system, disabling all traffic to Microsoft, attacking virus protection, or even close the door themselves so that cleaner worms or "copy-cat" worms can't get in.
The evolution of the "worm" has begun.
The other question I have is whether or not the W32/Nachi worm cleans up itself it it can not find a host to spread to. The "cure" may turn out to be no better then msblaster if it generates massive network traffic looking for new hosts.
Na ... nothing like that.
...
When Microsoft knows something like this is going to happen they pull in there secret weapon, big-gun software to handle the load
Microsoft's secret weapon
And finally ...
6.
Thank goodness!!!
My professor would be in some serious trouble should his P2P site every be discovered!
Yeppp ...
This is called balanced.
Joint Committe of Higher Education and Entertainment Communities
5 higher ed reps.
3 From Education committees
11 people from RIAA and other commercial organizations
So who wrote this document again?
Pump and Dump.
.. more legal expenses)
If there are no lines of code in Linux as they state then they are giving out misleading statements and false claims. Not to mention selling a new product (the license) and making it look as this is a new source of income.
The SEC is extremely anal about anything that misleads investors or even looks like a pump and dump scheme. The SEC might not a penny from you in penalties, but will throw 20 government employeed lawyers at SCO them and halt the stock from trading. (ya
And 640K is enough for anyone ...
.. save MORE electricity by not running huge, or as many air conditioning units.
...
.. ..
.. We run faster, better, cheaper, blah blah blah. Go to the extent of showing a picture of an Athlon frying an egg on one picture and a piece of ice sitting on a Trasmetta CPU. And by marketing their name, people come to know it, and trust it more, which mean people will be more interested in products with their chips, which mean more companies will seek out Transmetta chips which mean more revenue.
.. "We dont make 'jack', we just make 'jack' better"
I completly disagree with your posts.
First low power consumption is become more and more and issue. Electricity is not cheap, and with more and more computers in organizations, they are looking for ways to cut down on the electricity bill.
This is two fold because with lower power consumption means less heat. Walla
This even falls back to home use. 10 years ago running your own home server was a "pipe dream" and not needed. Now just about every slashdot reader has some sort of server(s) running. I myself only run a Duron 1000 due to is low power consumption and cooler temperatures. For serving up files and a few dns, web hits is more then enough. After switch DOWN from a Palamino cored Athlon to this, I saw my monthly electric usage decline.
And your mention of not needing to market is just wrong. They should be out there stating
We run cooler
We run cheaper
And add in a few plugs
Why does BASF advertise
My 0010 cents worth.
and then blue screen of death.
.. but if the universe is expanding .. what is it expanding in? Or is the universe creating "area"? And if its creating a defined size, a dimension, heck a cube that is called the universe, what is that in?
Sure
We know so little.
Sure .. but SCO's claim is that since they have been using it for the past "two decades" its not an issue.
I mean come on. You can't be sued for implementing something , distributing it, have the other company KNOW that its in there, and never say a word until it wants to.
Wait a second?
You missed such an important statement!
.. the same thing you are ranting about in your response and that no one has the balls to take on. Its not our fault that an un-warrented, unprotected software is kicking your ass.
.. wtf. Are my servers suppose to give me hugs and kisses daily? I feal dam comfortable running it. I dont have to put up with licensing BS. I dont have to put up with reporting a problem and waiting 4 fricken months for some fat developer to put down the donnuts and change 2 lines of code.
.. you are violating my intellectual property by having to read such drivel and to put up with your Sheeeeooot!
IBM urges its customers to use non-warranted, unprotected software. This software violates SCO's intellectual property rights in UNIX, and fails to give comfort to customers going forward in use of Linux.
This lets the cat out of the bag. SCO states "non-warranted, unprotected software"
Unprotected my little white ass. Its called the GPL ass wipes
And the ONLY reason it would need protection in the first place is because of Scum sucking worthless POS companies like you SCO.
And comfort
SCO
IBM is going to bury your punk ass in 4 seperate patent suits which I hope you choke on.
I swear, the Iraqi Information Minister has got to be working for SCO!
Just the other $0.98
One of the funniest things I've heard on /. for a long time
And WTF do you consider a long time?
3 hours?
SCO say's show me the money
their assets were bought by someone, if the software was any good that is.
And if not, the code just goes into public domain.
Cool! Looks like we all are going to have a copy of SCO source code in a year!
This man is talking out his ass.
.. we might have a new candidate for Governor of California.
Hey
This is what SCO is doing. This is a prime example of how people are feeling these days about SCO.
.. when you tell your manager its free and has development work being done by IBM .. its .. not ... that .. hard ..
.. err .. SCO users. "Your SCO OS will soon fail to be supported. Try our upgrade!"
Lets face it, thier OS is in trouble when it comes to the ranks of UNIX admins for installation.
Maybe for HP, IBM, Sun, SGI, the OS of choice is dictated by the machine, but for Intel based processors its the Admin who gets to call the shots 99% of the time. Hey
So what does this lawsuit do? Tell every admin that SCO is evil, and not to buy there product.
They are not giving up, and are going to try to milk this for what they can, because they are to deap in and they know it. No one in there right mind will buy SCO anymore. They are a black listed company.
I can't wait to see Sun start sending out mailings to SCUM
Here .. try this. I think there are 17+ power supplies that they reviewed. All the way from top end to bottom of the barrel in some cases.
power supplies review
And when nabster was at its prime the record music industry had record sales.
How easily you dismiss that.
There were many people that pirated the music, but there were many more that use it as a "try and buy" services.
Tell ya what. Have the record industry produce the same number of CD's as it did in 1999 and then we will look at sales. Why they don't? It would invalidate there entire arguement.
Am I correct in saying that a router can be used at home to prevent these kinds of attacks in the first place?
Actually that is not correct. A "router" in a nutshell is just used to "route" traffic from point A to point B.
What what people need is a hardware based NAT switch with firewall firmware. It places that nice "buffer" zone between your machines and the web.
If if the NAT switch/firewall is compromised somehow, it will not get the hacker very far without the presence of an OS. Your boxes behind should still be safe (but left without networking).
So I assume having a dual boot box would be a bit on the taboo side of things at M$.
Wonder if you would ever be heard from again?
Opening it up would probably also net the same results ...
.. (melt)"
"E"diana Jones:: "DONT LOOK AT IT MARION!!"
Old computer Scholar: "It's beautiful
Motif Faq
Subject: 2)* Is the Motif source code publically available?
[Last modified: Jan 02]
Answer: On May 15, 2000 the Open Group released the Motif source code for
Motif 2.1, using a public license, to the Open Source community. On January
29, 2002, Open Motif 2.2 was released.
"Shut-up and reboot."
That will be $110.
And hey it does not matter if you are white, black, Hispanic, Canadian or Native American. You are still a minority.
And guess what, India is an Affirmative action country.
So what would happen if American's moved to India, protested for jobs under India Affirmative Action, and then requested US salaries since they are still US citizens working for a US company?
such comments would have gotten you shot you insensitive clod!