These zombie pc viruses are a major arse pain with littlw release anywhere in sight.
Aside from putting a bounty on spammers heads to stop it. It has been getting so bad that if i had the abilities to, i would be tempted to consider creating a virus that would try a number of ways to get onto a pc through known *OLD* exploits, and once successful terminate the spammers viruscode then proceed to flick a popup screen saying "get a virus scanner & update your computer" once randomly every day akin to the old nagware that fortunately seems to be less around nowadays.
Then again another option is to just put a grenade in their "drink cup holder" and piss the problem off entirely.
Mine did that for all of a fortnight until it started randomly crashing, i think the motherboard couldn't handle running at 100MHz.
Clocking it back down to 66Mhz on the bus (300Mhz on the cpu) and it ran hunky dory. It's still running hunky dory today with a few chunky hard disks as my smb server now. Been doing so ever since early '01:-).
I've got one of these i think... but then again it only states "Pentium" on it, and judging by the die on it, i suspect it may be a 1st gen pentium chip that was made on flawed solicon as im pretty sure i can see a hairline crack across 1/5th of it.
i did something similar (i.e. killed digital photos), except i did it while trying to recover my / on linux, my/home/me/digitalpics was on another drive. Managed to hose that when i went to the wrong drive in fdisk, didn't i?
I must agree with the Enermax comment, i have a dual fan model (fan pumping air into the psu, air pulling it out).
After a few months of it running a bit hot, i figured i ought to have a look at it. After pulling it apart, i found out that the air-out fan had totally and utterly seized, and from how much dust and crap that was on it, it must have done so way way way early on in its life.
Pull fan apart, apply motorcycle chain lube to the axle, get it to kinda rotate a bit but it never rotates freely. Pull it apart totally and reapply the chain lube, now it freely rotates, good as new:-). Now the PSU works fantastically without a hint of overheating like before.
At same time i decided to check every other fan over and replace the underpowered dodgy cpu fan i had on my duron 1200. No bloody wonder the thing was running in the 65'C range and had started crashing randomly.
one month & counting, still going strong. Of course i hope i havent jinxed myse........
Playing with a brand NEW scsi card in my pc. just fitted it, and a new 2gig hard disk. Gave the final check, everything looked right, powered it up and VAP, a pink flame came out of one of the cables on the hard drive controller next to the scsi card. I had done the genius thing and grabed the card firmly and pressed it in, however i had also grabbed the IDE cable and squeezed that onto the scsi card w/o realising it piercing the IDE cable & nuking my 5 minute old card.
Then there's the time i opened up a external hard drive enclosure with live power going to it. By sheer genius of design two 240v prongs next to the transformer poked right in the air next to each other, right where i leant on the board. while playing with a new cdrom drive.
Jesus fucking christ that hurt.
I never ever did that again. Although i have taken a few switchmode power supplied apart and relaired 'em. (wearing latex cloges, and discharging any & all capacitors before doing anything other than tapping on the fan to make sure it was alive
Cool, i must say, those little rodents of yours are a very funky colour there.:-).
Shame the only mice i've had dealings with this year were ones that decided to live under my pantry. I think i managed to kill 6-7 of them over a 2 month period. and no, they weren't cute, they were the shitty little brown ones that crawl through the trash.
My best effort was a few years ago thank god. I had decided to put linux on my boot drive, (all mighty 1Gb of it). I booted to dos, ran fips, split the partition, then after booting the linux install i proceeded to DELETE/dev/hda1, not the bogus partial drive made by fips. schoolwork gone, essays, jokes, god knows what else. Most likely some porn too.
It was one hell of a day, as soon as that happened i decided that i had to do what i should have done a lot earlier. Gone to bed.
Their current policies are as listed below. http://www.dnsbl.us.sorbs.net/Overview.htm l other info is at http://www.dnsbl.us.sorbs.net/SpamDBFAQ.html
The site owner is considering putting in time based blocks, which sounds good to me, and i'd be a whole lot happier about ( http://www.dnsbl.us.sorbs.net/SpamDBsuggest.html ). I havent emailed him, as i'm at work, i may well do so once i get home *ponders*
*subnote* speaking to my hoster who spoke to the co-lo centre guys, they refuse to pay this on the grounds that they believe it to be a form of blackmail.
True, i have sympathy for the guys in these countries who are genuinely trying to just get along with their lives and not screw anyone over.
I know this because my hosting provider is on the SORBS blacklist a hosted customer from within the same datacentre over a year ago.
As soon as the datacentre company realised that the customer was sending out spam they cut them off and booted them out. But this was already too late, and looking at the rules of sorbs, there is almost sweet f/a that can be done to take them off the sorbs listing. Ok, yeah they *COULD* pay the fee (donation to a charity), but that can almost be seen as extorsion for those who were screwed over like ourselves. I am *NOT* gonna fork out $70AU ($50USD) to get off this f*king list because some wingnut decided that spamming the net with their cheapass toner cartrige deals was a nifty way to go about things.
I've emailed 'em and got a reply back to the effect of "get your hoster to pay the fine, get off the list". It's just fucked.
I read it as "Microsoft Money Vs. Chicken", I was pondering what the hell these guys were smoking when they wrote this article. Then i realised it was my screwup for once, not theirs.
Those mofo's still have my host on a blocklist due to someone co-lo'd in the same datacentre 12 months ago starting to send spam. They got away with it for a brief period of times before being booted out of that co-lo.
Now were stuck with sorbs, and aside from paying some penalty for something we didn't frickin do, were stuck on that bloody list. And i might add the guy is out there spamming away his printer toner cartridges still./bitch session
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These zombie pc viruses are a major arse pain with littlw release anywhere in sight.
Aside from putting a bounty on spammers heads to stop it. It has been getting so bad that if i had the abilities to, i would be tempted to consider creating a virus that would try a number of ways to get onto a pc through known *OLD* exploits, and once successful terminate the spammers viruscode then proceed to flick a popup screen saying "get a virus scanner & update your computer" once randomly every day akin to the old nagware that fortunately seems to be less around nowadays.
Then again another option is to just put a grenade in their "drink cup holder" and piss the problem off entirely.
oh champion effort there.
i knew of the poo one ages ago (unfortunately), but never thought about the kitten or puppy one.
thanks for sharing, they rawk!
Mine did that for all of a fortnight until it started randomly crashing, i think the motherboard couldn't handle running at 100MHz.
:-).
Clocking it back down to 66Mhz on the bus (300Mhz on the cpu) and it ran hunky dory. It's still running hunky dory today with a few chunky hard disks as my smb server now. Been doing so ever since early '01
I've got one of these i think... but then again it only states "Pentium" on it, and judging by the die on it, i suspect it may be a 1st gen pentium chip that was made on flawed solicon as im pretty sure i can see a hairline crack across 1/5th of it.
Well lucky you that you are even remotely close enough to see it.
Me, im many 1000's away (km's, Miles, still the same).
oh yes, "THIS IS AN EX PARROT", *teehee*
im sure there's enough karma to burn around here. :-)
I promised i'd use my karma for good, not evil, but smeg it.
go to This site for *ALL* your answers.
i did something similar (i.e. killed digital photos), except i did it while trying to recover my / on linux, my /home/me/digitalpics was on another drive. Managed to hose that when i went to the wrong drive in fdisk, didn't i?
just went to your site and i love the links.
:-), im sure she'll LOVE it!
I'll pass the tardblog onto my missus, she's at uni studying to be a teacher
Ugh, thanks for that.
Now i will have to go beat my head against the wall to get the picture out of my head.
Sweet, DUDE, Sweet, DUDE.
*CRINGE*
I must agree with the Enermax comment, i have a dual fan model (fan pumping air into the psu, air pulling it out).
:-). Now the PSU works fantastically without a hint of overheating like before.
After a few months of it running a bit hot, i figured i ought to have a look at it. After pulling it apart, i found out that the air-out fan had totally and utterly seized, and from how much dust and crap that was on it, it must have done so way way way early on in its life.
Pull fan apart, apply motorcycle chain lube to the axle, get it to kinda rotate a bit but it never rotates freely. Pull it apart totally and reapply the chain lube, now it freely rotates, good as new
At same time i decided to check every other fan over and replace the underpowered dodgy cpu fan i had on my duron 1200. No bloody wonder the thing was running in the 65'C range and had started crashing randomly.
one month & counting, still going strong. Of course i hope i havent jinxed myse........
HEY, i work for HP!!! ;-).
:)
oh ok ok ok, not in computer support, but still i thought i'd try and get you to jump a bit.
Playing with a brand NEW scsi card in my pc.
just fitted it, and a new 2gig hard disk. Gave the final check, everything looked right, powered it up and VAP, a pink flame came out of one of the cables on the hard drive controller next to the scsi card. I had done the genius thing and grabed the card firmly and pressed it in, however i had also grabbed the IDE cable and squeezed that onto the scsi card w/o realising it piercing the IDE cable & nuking my 5 minute old card.
Then there's the time i opened up a external hard drive enclosure with live power going to it. By sheer genius of design two 240v prongs next to the transformer poked right in the air next to each other, right where i leant on the board. while playing with a new cdrom drive.
Jesus fucking christ that hurt.
I never ever did that again. Although i have taken a few switchmode power supplied apart and relaired 'em. (wearing latex cloges, and discharging any & all capacitors before doing anything other than tapping on the fan to make sure it was alive
Cool, i must say, those little rodents of yours are a very funky colour there. :-).
Shame the only mice i've had dealings with this year were ones that decided to live under my pantry. I think i managed to kill 6-7 of them over a 2 month period. and no, they weren't cute, they were the shitty little brown ones that crawl through the trash.
My best effort was a few years ago thank god. /dev/hda1, not the bogus partial drive made by fips. schoolwork gone, essays, jokes, god knows what else. Most likely some porn too.
I had decided to put linux on my boot drive, (all mighty 1Gb of it). I booted to dos, ran fips, split the partition, then after booting the linux install i proceeded to DELETE
It was one hell of a day, as soon as that happened i decided that i had to do what i should have done a lot earlier. Gone to bed.
Yeah, i wasn't impressed either.
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Their current policies are as listed below.
http://www.dnsbl.us.sorbs.net/Overview.ht
other info is at http://www.dnsbl.us.sorbs.net/SpamDBFAQ.html
The site owner is considering putting in time based blocks, which sounds good to me, and i'd be a whole lot happier about ( http://www.dnsbl.us.sorbs.net/SpamDBsuggest.html ). I havent emailed him, as i'm at work, i may well do so once i get home *ponders*
*subnote* speaking to my hoster who spoke to the co-lo centre guys, they refuse to pay this on the grounds that they believe it to be a form of blackmail.
True, i have sympathy for the guys in these countries who are genuinely trying to just get along with their lives and not screw anyone over.
I know this because my hosting provider is on the SORBS blacklist a hosted customer from within the same datacentre over a year ago.
As soon as the datacentre company realised that the customer was sending out spam they cut them off and booted them out. But this was already too late, and looking at the rules of sorbs, there is almost sweet f/a that can be done to take them off the sorbs listing. Ok, yeah they *COULD* pay the fee (donation to a charity), but that can almost be seen as extorsion for those who were screwed over like ourselves. I am *NOT* gonna fork out $70AU ($50USD) to get off this f*king list because some wingnut decided that spamming the net with their cheapass toner cartrige deals was a nifty way to go about things.
I've emailed 'em and got a reply back to the effect of "get your hoster to pay the fine, get off the list". It's just fucked.
As cut/pasted from my browser
HTTP 403.9 - Access Forbidden: Too many users are connected
Internet Information Services
GO NASA, GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *WWoooooooooo!!!*
I read it as "Microsoft Money Vs. Chicken", I was pondering what the hell these guys were smoking when they wrote this article. Then i realised it was my screwup for once, not theirs.
Yeah i noticed that a little while ago.
.mil started ignoring whois requests.
I wonder when
Must be all those damned terrorists.
At least you *KNOW* he isn't running Windows ME in there then...
Wait, unless he has virtual PC on there that is. Damn, there goes my positive thinking.
That's possible,
:-)
Other solutions include sending them harrassing emails advising them to use windows update *chortle*.
What about getting off SORBS?
/bitch session
Those mofo's still have my host on a blocklist due to someone co-lo'd in the same datacentre 12 months ago starting to send spam. They got away with it for a brief period of times before being booted out of that co-lo.
Now were stuck with sorbs, and aside from paying some penalty for something we didn't frickin do, were stuck on that bloody list. And i might add the guy is out there spamming away his printer toner cartridges still.