But the msblast.exe program does not install any other software besides the tftp server. Look at the code for msblast in notepad and you can see some of what it does.
Somedays it sucks when you can't decompile programs.
If you unpack the virus using UPX, you'll see that it doesn't attach itself to other files. It's really a lame kind of virus..more along the lines of proof of concept if you ask me.
But hey...I don't get paid to make determinations about virii;D.
1. Ctrl + Alt + Delete on windows xp and kill the msblast.exe process. 2. Open Windows Explorer, go to the C:\Windows\System32 folder and delete the msblast.exe program. 3. Start > Run > Regedit. Hit Edit then Find and type in msblast and remove the key in your registry. 4. Reboot. 5. Install the patch (Why didn't you do this during the month before you were hit with this poorly coded POS?) 6. Virus scan. Free online virus scan at http://housecall.antivirus.com.
I wonder if I can sue people because I once stayed in Salt Lake City and paid sales tax which invaribly went to some city improvement that everyone uses everyday.
Better yet, as soon as I find out what it is? I'm going to waste the money to patent it now years after I've left Salt Lake City so that I can finance my next vacation.
I bet if I could make money off of lobby for an unconstitutional law and be able to pull off legal extortion, I'd have no problem scaring people like the RIAA.
I will download whatever I want and feel that no one person or group can stop me from it.
Getting a grip would not be allowing a few disgruntled coders to sue for something that they did not create in the first place.
The fact that they bought the rights to the Unix operating system doesn't give them the right to sue someone over what they "think" is infringement. I mean come on...they aren't even willing to turn over the information to IBM and the general public to help prove their case.
This is basically akin to the original IRC coders come back into the scene and copyrighting the use of C/C++ code for a chat server and then suing the people who code Bahamut, Comstud, and Unreal for using the idea of chat networks without providing any type of proof that their code was used in the design.
I don't need sign a NDA to determine that the so-called "proof" that SCO has is all bogus.
Maybe if all of the contributors and developers of the Linux kernel source code collectively filed suit for wages from SCO for their work, SCO might realize that they really don't own what someone else created for everyone to use...even them.
If the kid is already being tracked by America Online, why in the hell would he go and do something as stupid as listing Steve Case's information? The last group of kids that went into AOL's customer information system, then known as CRIS, were prosecuted. Some are doing jail time, while others are on probation without any computer access.
For someone who is definitely not understanding what it takes to get into America Online, you have a lot of balls to say that the screenshots aren't real.
Why don't you take a moment from your Counterstrike playing and actually read through the MSF articles that we have listed on our website that proves the information is correct.
Observers.net does NOT post anything that we do not believe as true.
Knowing what the inside looks like first hand, ESPECIALLY from a former America Online employee who now works on the site, I do believe I would happen to be able to differentiate fake screenshots from the real ones.
You all wanted proof that the hack was done. We're carrying that proof on Observers.net. Check out the first story and that will give you all the proof you need that the hack was done.
The other news places (The Register, The Inquirer, and Wired) were not able to provide the proof that we have.
Our radio station at Observers.net will not pay for robbery by the RIAA or any other group that decides that they own the rights to someone else's work.
The RIAA is only out to make money for themselves. They cut these big contracts with artists and then screw them for the profit.
Let them sue I say, but I for one will not be paying them jack.
ICANN is nothing but a crock. Big corporations, such as Microshaft and AOHell use them to steal legitimately owned domains that were bought by PRIVATE individuals.
What's wrong? The government is tired of hearing about companies lining the pockets of these beaurocratic idiots and giving them the opportunity to think they are somebody important.
Need examples of domains stolen? How about aim.com, aimster.com, aol-beta.com, aol.org?
Do I really need to go on or do we all see the point here?
They didn't push it because AOL screwed over the free software community. Running a Linux operating system, then encrypting the file system and not allowing the user access to it, or even accrediting the programmers who wrote all of the software that that piece of crap relies on, caused its demise.
After Gamera was ripped from its insides, you couldn't even find one being sold ANYWHERE on the Gateway website...store...or for that matter...on AOL.
Let's see...what have we learned here? 1) Internet appliances simply aren't worth the money. 2) Internet appliances 9 times out of 10 screw over the people who had to write the software that runs the piece of crap and 3) If you can't build a computer for under $600, you have issues.
For the correct url it's http://www.observers.net/gamera2/gamerastory.html for information and download sites. If you can't find it there, email me at jacob@observers.net and I will get a copy for you.
Hi,
AOL for Linux has already been released...remember the Gamera client? That's the software running on the Gateway appliance and was pulled off of there to prove that AOL violated free software licenses.
More info can be found at http://www.observers.net/gamera2/gamerastory.html
Jacob
Observers.net
The fact of the matter is this. There are literally tens of hundreds of programs on that machine that are covered by the GPL. There was no mention off that. There is no way for the normal user to even SEE the file system or any view of the operating system as well.
We are not asking AOL to play by our conventions. The conventions that AOL did not play by is flat out that they did not give credit to the authors of the software used on the appliance. None of the programs listed include the licensing information at the top of the code.
We did not write any of the programs on that box. There are developers out that there that did. We think it only fair that they receive the credit that they are due for writing the programs.
BTW, there is no GPL in the appliance manual. If there was, we would have not pursued this story.
Thanks,
Jacob
Observers Staff
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Phantasm can be reached at phantasm@observers.net or you can email me directly at jacob@observers.net and I will be happy to forward the email along.
Thanks,
Jacob
Observers Staff
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America Online did not plan on another release of the software for the Gateway appliance. The appliance has actually bombed like every other internet appliance.
Yes, there will be updates to the software as per the norm of the AOL clients, but an update is a totally different animal than an actual release.
America Online has even discontinued beta testing according to the Instant AOL Beta area on America Online (kw: instant aol beta).
Although, it's not going to do much good for anyone to attempt to access that area unless they are a part of the now defunct beta program.
Jacob
Observers Staff
We are currently looking for mirrors of this article. Our host was slightly overwhelmed by the readers from this website.::cough::cough:: They had a stroke.
If you are interested in mirroring this story, please contact me directly at jacob@observers.net
Thanks,
Jacob
Observers Staff
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The guy's name is Jay Echoufani. He owns Orbit Satellite Communications (http://www.orbitsat.com).
And quite honestly? All of you hear don't know Paul...nor do you really care.
But for what it's worth? Unless you know Paul personally, I suggest you take your attitudes regarding him and stick them up your asses.
The FBI had no cause to actually walk in and scoop up the data center. They have placed a lot of legitimate people, including Foonet, out of business.
But you can expect that Foonet will return.
I guarantee you that much.
But the msblast.exe program does not install any other software besides the tftp server. Look at the code for msblast in notepad and you can see some of what it does.
Somedays it sucks when you can't decompile programs.
If you unpack the virus using UPX, you'll see that it doesn't attach itself to other files. It's really a lame kind of virus..more along the lines of proof of concept if you ask me.
;D.
But hey...I don't get paid to make determinations about virii
1. Ctrl + Alt + Delete on windows xp and kill the msblast.exe process.
2. Open Windows Explorer, go to the C:\Windows\System32 folder and delete the msblast.exe program.
3. Start > Run > Regedit. Hit Edit then Find and type in msblast and remove the key in your registry.
4. Reboot.
5. Install the patch (Why didn't you do this during the month before you were hit with this poorly coded POS?)
6. Virus scan. Free online virus scan at http://housecall.antivirus.com.
Real simple folks.
I didn't know SCO could consider themselves a Fortune 500 company.
More spin from the SCO publicity machine...I guess it's better than announcing layoffs.
SCO lawsuit crap--basically equated to this:
I wonder if I can sue people because I once stayed in Salt Lake City and paid sales tax which invaribly went to some city improvement that everyone uses everyday.
Better yet, as soon as I find out what it is? I'm going to waste the money to patent it now years after I've left Salt Lake City so that I can finance my next vacation.
Extortion.
I bet if I could make money off of lobby for an unconstitutional law and be able to pull off legal extortion, I'd have no problem scaring people like the RIAA.
I will download whatever I want and feel that no one person or group can stop me from it.
Getting a grip would not be allowing a few disgruntled coders to sue for something that they did not create in the first place.
The fact that they bought the rights to the Unix operating system doesn't give them the right to sue someone over what they "think" is infringement. I mean come on...they aren't even willing to turn over the information to IBM and the general public to help prove their case.
This is basically akin to the original IRC coders come back into the scene and copyrighting the use of C/C++ code for a chat server and then suing the people who code Bahamut, Comstud, and Unreal for using the idea of chat networks without providing any type of proof that their code was used in the design.
I don't need sign a NDA to determine that the so-called "proof" that SCO has is all bogus.
Maybe if all of the contributors and developers of the Linux kernel source code collectively filed suit for wages from SCO for their work, SCO might realize that they really don't own what someone else created for everyone to use...even them.
If the kid is already being tracked by America Online, why in the hell would he go and do something as stupid as listing Steve Case's information? The last group of kids that went into AOL's customer information system, then known as CRIS, were prosecuted. Some are doing jail time, while others are on probation without any computer access.
For someone who is definitely not understanding what it takes to get into America Online, you have a lot of balls to say that the screenshots aren't real.
Why don't you take a moment from your Counterstrike playing and actually read through the MSF articles that we have listed on our website that proves the information is correct.
Observers.net does NOT post anything that we do not believe as true.
Knowing what the inside looks like first hand, ESPECIALLY from a former America Online employee who now works on the site, I do believe I would happen to be able to differentiate fake screenshots from the real ones.
I think you have us confused with places like Wired, The Register, and The Inquirer.
Jacob
Observers.net
It's not hard to social engineer an aol employee to read you the numbers off of their securid and also give you their teleset number (CTI number).
:D
The social engineering portion was explained by Wired (albeit halfassed). I don't believe that we need to address this again.
But hey, if you don't believe us...that's fine. It's not our credit cards that are in danger
Jacob
Observers.net
Hi,
You all wanted proof that the hack was done. We're carrying that proof on Observers.net. Check out the first story and that will give you all the proof you need that the hack was done.
The other news places (The Register, The Inquirer, and Wired) were not able to provide the proof that we have.
Jacob
Observers.net
Our radio station at Observers.net will not pay for robbery by the RIAA or any other group that decides that they own the rights to someone else's work.
The RIAA is only out to make money for themselves. They cut these big contracts with artists and then screw them for the profit.
Let them sue I say, but I for one will not be paying them jack.
ICANN is nothing but a crock. Big corporations, such as Microshaft and AOHell use them to steal legitimately owned domains that were bought by PRIVATE individuals.
What's wrong? The government is tired of hearing about companies lining the pockets of these beaurocratic idiots and giving them the opportunity to think they are somebody important.
Need examples of domains stolen? How about aim.com, aimster.com, aol-beta.com, aol.org?
Do I really need to go on or do we all see the point here?
Isn't this like the pot calling the kettle black?
They didn't push it because AOL screwed over the free software community. Running a Linux operating system, then encrypting the file system and not allowing the user access to it, or even accrediting the programmers who wrote all of the software that that piece of crap relies on, caused its demise.
After Gamera was ripped from its insides, you couldn't even find one being sold ANYWHERE on the Gateway website...store...or for that matter...on AOL.
Let's see...what have we learned here? 1) Internet appliances simply aren't worth the money. 2) Internet appliances 9 times out of 10 screw over the people who had to write the software that runs the piece of crap and 3) If you can't build a computer for under $600, you have issues.
Jacob
Observers.net
For the correct url it's http://www.observers.net/gamera2/gamerastory.html for information and download sites. If you can't find it there, email me at jacob@observers.net and I will get a copy for you.
Hi, AOL for Linux has already been released...remember the Gamera client? That's the software running on the Gateway appliance and was pulled off of there to prove that AOL violated free software licenses. More info can be found at http://www.observers.net/gamera2/gamerastory.html Jacob Observers.net
The fact of the matter is this. There are literally tens of hundreds of programs on that machine that are covered by the GPL. There was no mention off that. There is no way for the normal user to even SEE the file system or any view of the operating system as well.
We are not asking AOL to play by our conventions. The conventions that AOL did not play by is flat out that they did not give credit to the authors of the software used on the appliance. None of the programs listed include the licensing information at the top of the code.
We did not write any of the programs on that box. There are developers out that there that did. We think it only fair that they receive the credit that they are due for writing the programs.
BTW, there is no GPL in the appliance manual. If there was, we would have not pursued this story.
Thanks,
Jacob
Observers Staff
Phantasm can be reached at phantasm@observers.net or you can email me directly at jacob@observers.net and I will be happy to forward the email along.
Thanks,
Jacob
Observers Staff
America Online did not plan on another release of the software for the Gateway appliance. The appliance has actually bombed like every other internet appliance. Yes, there will be updates to the software as per the norm of the AOL clients, but an update is a totally different animal than an actual release. America Online has even discontinued beta testing according to the Instant AOL Beta area on America Online (kw: instant aol beta). Although, it's not going to do much good for anyone to attempt to access that area unless they are a part of the now defunct beta program. Jacob Observers Staff
We are currently looking for mirrors of this article. Our host was slightly overwhelmed by the readers from this website. ::cough::cough:: They had a stroke.
If you are interested in mirroring this story, please contact me directly at jacob@observers.net
Thanks,
Jacob
Observers Staff