No, you're wrong. OR the spammers are complete retards.
Why?
Its so extremly much more efficent and EASY to write a scanner for these three types of security problems: 1) Open proxies. Well, they might be blacklisted, but thats easily verifiable from the sites blacklistning.. 2) Open relays. Same as 1. 3) Compromisable boxes, you have no CLUE on how many wuftpd 2.6.2(2), bind, sendmail, you, fucking, name, it, apache 1.3.VULN, openssh, sshd servers there are out there if you CARE to portscan every ip out there.
Why bother going highly public with a virus bound to make the papers, when you could silently run a portscan on the backyard of the 'net.. ?
theres almost always something a AV can hook up too like a checksum of some string in the code, and even if you do something with it, there are not many ways of altering strings (AND CODE) in your programs so that it always shows up as totally diffrent checksums. and there are ways to detect this kind and behavior (polymorphism) in a program aswell - and warn the user.
some av has automatic finding of viruses nowadays, like looking for unusual behaviour - ie changing many executable files or adding themselfs to startup-folders etc...
writing viruses isnt that easy, however, writing a worm like msblaster is disqusting easy nowadays with almost all needed sourcecode in x86asm available, just pick a hole to exploit.
the lovesan worm is even quite "stupid" in it ways of using tftp/a huge.exe for its dirty buisness. no credits to that viruswriter from me.
David P. Anderson Department of Geological Sciences Southern Methodist University
The science and technology news service at slashdot.org, self-described "news for nerds," has become a widely read and extremely popular website in the last few years. Enough so that it has introduced a new word into our vocabulary: to be "slashdotted." This is a phenomena in which a news item reported on slashdot.org generates sufficient attention to a particular website that thousands of news-hungry readers descend on that site en masse, creating temporary havoc for the system and often crashing the targeted server.
Our server, www.geology.smu.edu, has been slashdotted twice in the past year. The server has also been subjected to some large bursts of network activity focused around other news media attention, particularly surrounding the destruction of the Space Shuttle Columbia.
After a large surge of server accesses brought our system down in the fall of 2002, it was rebuilt as a two-headed Linux Virtual Server. At the same time provisions were made for system redundancy using the Linux High Availability utilities. In this configuration two machines share the load of a single virtual webserver, while performing out-of-band heartbeat signaling. This plus an automated backup system provides for a seamless failover capability. Each machine has its own independent 100 Mbit connection to the Gigabit SMU internet service, and each has its own Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS). If either machine fails, the other automatically takes over it's resources to provide smoothly continuous, uninterrupted service. Similarly, one will automatically releases the other's resources when/if the other (failed) machine comes back online. This is a scalable architecture, though currently configured using only two machines.
www.geology.smu.edu
Our nominal access rate for the geology department web/ftp server has usually averaged around 4000 to 6000 hits per day, which corresponds to about 400 to 600 separate visits. With the media attention surrounding our infrasound work on the destruction of the Space Shuttle Columbia in February, we saw peaks as high as 42000 hits per day, corresponding to about 2700 separate visits. Figure 2 shows the daily statistics for February as generated from the Apache log files using the Webalizer utility.
Figure 2. Daily Usage for February 2003
The Columbia was destroyed on February 1st, and we published tentative time, location, and magnitude estimates on the evening of February 3rd. This was accompanied by a spike in web activity on the 4th and 5th, and sustained above-average accesses for the next week. On February 14th, Dr. Herrin held a press conference and presented his team's completed analysis, and that information was repeated in the national media over the next two weeks, producing the spike of activity surrounding the 21st.
Other months not shown here have seen similar peaks of activity, such as that surrounding the publication of our paper on the search for Strange Quark Matter at the Los Alamos National Laboratory archives, and the publication of some of our Planetary Imagery in the popular press and on display at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C.
Figure 3. Daily Usage for Jaunary 2003
Compare and contrast the statistics for February 2003 with those for Jaunary 2003 in Figuire 3, when our website was first mentioned on slashdot.org. The seeming exponential decay of accesses is striking. The hourly usage statistics for 18th through the 20th of Jaunary show a simlar exponential-appearing curve. Notice the slight rebound around the 27th through the 29th, like the behavior of a damped sinusoid or a critically damped pendulum. We make no claims as to the significance of these data, other than to note in passing that the attention spans of slashdotters seem to follow an exponential or perhaps damped sinusoidal curve.
ok, this is going very offtopic and i really dont wanna make myself more stupid than i already look;) anyway, you'll have to realize thats its all relative, to me, sweden is very _very_ far away from what i would call socialistic in the sense of former russia. socialism to me is about stopping people from exercising their right to live the life they want themselfs. to me socialism is evil. socialism takes your rights and generalises you with the rest of the population no matter how good or skilled you are.
if that is what you want to call sweden and europe, god help us.
the swedish system was working until some greedy people from (yeah you guessed it - the "socialist"-party) raised their own retirmentpayments soo much we had to lend money to cover the costs. but if humanity comes at the cost of a can of coke costing 4 dollars, you bet ill be there buying.
what is my point of humanity? its the right to be able to live a life where you dont have to rely on others for food, where you dont have to have two jobs to support your kids, where you can take two weeks of vacation without getting fired from your employeer.
and sincerely, is that what you have in america today?
yeah, that and jury costs for relasing white police officers after beating black people up.
it isnt socialism that makes your coke cost 25 kronor, if it was socialism it would be "people-coke" and cost exactly what it takes to produce+ship it.
sweden and norway isnt socialistic in the marxhistic coining. we're no more socialists here than anywhere else in europe.
its just you americans that aint openminded enough to realise that there can be two kinds of meaning to a single word.
i recommend you start training with "arab": in sweden, we have atleast two kinds of arabs "terrorist arabs", and "friendly arabs".
hint: the ones with guns are the "terrorist arabs".
Microsoft attacks users of opensource software (OSS).
Richard Stallman: This blatant attack on users of opensource software is outrageous! Microsoft must be stopped!
Linus Thorvalds: These users did NOTHING but used tools available to many happy users of the opensource community - if microsoft wants to punish then for this crime - I need to be punished too!
In response Bill Gates has replied: This is not at all about opensource software but the misuse of software created with good intentions but misused by evild03rs. (See Iraqis).
Slashdot Mirror
For all the people who get a turn on knowing their mails are read by others..
this is the most racistic comment i ever read on slashdot.
this is slashdot kiddo, get used to it.
Theres no way in _HELL_ we can build a site for 10,000 hits / hour with ONE microsoft 2000 license!
Simple.
if they need to ask people to leave to have a chance for the girls i'll say they're quite dorky.
No, you're wrong. OR the spammers are complete retards.
.. ?
Why?
Its so extremly much more efficent and EASY to write a scanner for these three types of security problems:
1) Open proxies. Well, they might be blacklisted, but thats easily verifiable from the sites blacklistning..
2) Open relays. Same as 1.
3) Compromisable boxes, you have no CLUE on how many wuftpd 2.6.2(2), bind, sendmail, you, fucking, name, it, apache 1.3.VULN, openssh, sshd servers there are out there if you CARE to portscan every ip out there.
Why bother going highly public with a virus bound to make the papers, when you could silently run a portscan on the backyard of the 'net
theres almost always something a AV can hook up too like a checksum of some string in the code, and even if you do something with it, there are not many ways of altering strings (AND CODE) in your programs so that it always shows up as totally diffrent checksums. and there are ways to detect this kind and behavior (polymorphism) in a program aswell - and warn the user.
.exe for its dirty buisness. no credits to that viruswriter from me.
some av has automatic finding of viruses nowadays, like looking for unusual behaviour - ie changing many executable files or adding themselfs to startup-folders etc...
writing viruses isnt that easy, however, writing a worm like msblaster is disqusting easy nowadays with almost all needed sourcecode in x86asm available, just pick a hole to exploit.
the lovesan worm is even quite "stupid" in it ways of using tftp/a huge
an hour? i hope you got around todo some more stuff than just fixing her pc then..
From the inquirerarticle:
Has the whole world gone stark staring bonkers? [Yes. Ed.]
yeah, that and you providing your friends with fast warez downloads ;)
Unplug Internet connection
Download patches from the Internet
Set up firewall
Plug in Internet connection
Is it only my seeing a problem here? Exactly HOW do you download anything when you're unplugged?
who cares about low bitrates, i want my cd-quality.
Surviving slashdot'ing with a small server
David P. Anderson
Department of Geological Sciences
Southern Methodist University
The science and technology news service at slashdot.org, self-described "news for nerds," has become a widely read and extremely popular website in the last few years. Enough so that it has introduced a new word into our vocabulary: to be "slashdotted." This is a phenomena in which a news item reported on slashdot.org generates sufficient attention to a particular website that thousands of news-hungry readers descend on that site en masse, creating temporary havoc for the system and often crashing the targeted server.
Our server, www.geology.smu.edu, has been slashdotted twice in the past year. The server has also been subjected to some large bursts of network activity focused around other news media attention, particularly surrounding the destruction of the Space Shuttle Columbia.
After a large surge of server accesses brought our system down in the fall of 2002, it was rebuilt as a two-headed Linux Virtual Server. At the same time provisions were made for system redundancy using the Linux High Availability utilities. In this configuration two machines share the load of a single virtual webserver, while performing out-of-band heartbeat signaling. This plus an automated backup system provides for a seamless failover capability. Each machine has its own independent 100 Mbit connection to the Gigabit SMU internet service, and each has its own Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS). If either machine fails, the other automatically takes over it's resources to provide smoothly continuous, uninterrupted service. Similarly, one will automatically releases the other's resources when/if the other (failed) machine comes back online. This is a scalable architecture, though currently configured using only two machines.
www.geology.smu.edu
Our nominal access rate for the geology department web/ftp server has usually averaged around 4000 to 6000 hits per day, which corresponds to about 400 to 600 separate visits. With the media attention surrounding our infrasound work on the destruction of the Space Shuttle Columbia in February, we saw peaks as high as 42000 hits per day, corresponding to about 2700 separate visits. Figure 2 shows the daily statistics for February as generated from the Apache log files using the Webalizer utility.
Figure 2. Daily Usage for February 2003
The Columbia was destroyed on February 1st, and we published tentative time, location, and magnitude estimates on the evening of February 3rd. This was accompanied by a spike in web activity on the 4th and 5th, and sustained above-average accesses for the next week. On February 14th, Dr. Herrin held a press conference and presented his team's completed analysis, and that information was repeated in the national media over the next two weeks, producing the spike of activity surrounding the 21st.
Other months not shown here have seen similar peaks of activity, such as that surrounding the publication of our paper on the search for Strange Quark Matter at the Los Alamos National Laboratory archives, and the publication of some of our Planetary Imagery in the popular press and on display at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C.
Figure 3. Daily Usage for Jaunary 2003
Compare and contrast the statistics for February 2003 with those for Jaunary 2003 in Figuire 3, when our website was first mentioned on slashdot.org. The seeming exponential decay of accesses is striking. The hourly usage statistics for 18th through the 20th of Jaunary show a simlar exponential-appearing curve. Notice the slight rebound around the 27th through the 29th, like the behavior of a damped sinusoid or a critically damped pendulum. We make no claims as to the significance of these data, other than to note in passing that the attention spans of slashdotters seem to follow an exponential or perhaps damped sinusoidal curve.
We were slashdotted a
ok, this is going very offtopic and i really dont wanna make myself more stupid than i already look ;)
anyway, you'll have to realize thats its all relative, to me, sweden is very _very_ far away from what i would call socialistic in the sense of former russia. socialism to me is about stopping people from exercising their right to live the life they want themselfs. to me socialism is evil. socialism takes your rights and generalises you with the rest of the population no matter how good or skilled you are.
if that is what you want to call sweden and europe, god help us.
the swedish system was working until some greedy people from (yeah you guessed it - the "socialist"-party) raised their own retirmentpayments soo much we had to lend money to cover the costs. but if humanity comes at the cost of a can of coke costing 4 dollars, you bet ill be there buying.
what is my point of humanity? its the right to be able to live a life where you dont have to rely on others for food, where you dont have to have two jobs to support your kids, where you can take two weeks of vacation without getting fired from your employeer.
and sincerely, is that what you have in america today?
yeah, that and jury costs for relasing white police officers after beating black people up.
it isnt socialism that makes your coke cost 25 kronor, if it was socialism it would be "people-coke" and cost exactly what it takes to produce+ship it.
sweden and norway isnt socialistic in the marxhistic coining. we're no more socialists here than anywhere else in europe.
its just you americans that aint openminded enough to realise that there can be two kinds of meaning to a single word.
i recommend you start training with "arab": in sweden, we have atleast two kinds of arabs "terrorist arabs", and "friendly arabs".
hint: the ones with guns are the "terrorist arabs".
Whats the price of a coke-can got todo with socialism? It's capitalism at its finest ffs.
You can buy a cokecan for 1 dollar easily, 0.50 at distributing channels, but someone prefered to rip your american ass.
(Yeah, I'm still laughing).
Dont think with your dick, then whats left to think with in this area? My genius is dedicated to science..
he did mention he knows some basic lisp syntax, that kinda implements nohumor.h
anyone else sees a connection?
maybe its the future, maybe someone just had a field day at the library..
how can sorting on k* be any harder than on just *?
beats me.
vilket troligen är vad dom ägnar sig åt när dom inte skriver meningslösa program...
1) Design slashdot t-shirt ...
2)
3) Karma!
this obviously means you can run infintite numbers of winamps.
have you EVER tried starting more than one? if you would you'd probably pretty quickly realise 0+0+0+0 doesnt equal zero.
In other news:
Microsoft attacks users of opensource software (OSS).
Richard Stallman: This blatant attack on users of opensource software is outrageous! Microsoft must be stopped!
Linus Thorvalds: These users did NOTHING but used tools available to many happy users of the opensource community - if microsoft wants to punish then for this crime - I need to be punished too!
In response Bill Gates has replied:
This is not at all about opensource software but the misuse of software created with good intentions but misused by evild03rs. (See Iraqis).
why would there be diamonds in comets? afaik plants -> oil -> coal -> diamonds.
i'd like to see where you get plants on a comet..