The CNN report I saw on this said these sleezebags also created the RBOT variant (which I'm guessing is an offshoot of of ZOTOB) and I hope these guys see some some serious jail time. My company got hit with RBOT.CDM variant which Trend didn't have a pattern for on Wednesday and entered via a laptop that hadn't been patched in a while that was placed someone's unsecured connection, and brought in the virus around our firewall. At least it caused OfficeScan to break on one of the downstream infectees and the end user was smart enugh to notice his Real Time Scanner icon turned red (which means something took it offline) and even smarter to call and ask about it. A quick investigation showed the Registry Editor and CMD prompt were suddenly inaccessable, but it's a ugly feeling to scan the file with the latest pattern and the Controlled Release pattern scan right over the file and not report anything. At that point, you rip all the downstream infectees off the network, call Trend and wait (WAY too long I might add) for them to send you their forensic toolkit, which you run on the infected machine and take the 65MB snapshot it writes out and FTP it them. They had a pattern fix (which they call a "bandage pattern") for us the next day along with a cleanup method. 15 infected machines later, you're done.
I can honestly say being at ground zero for an undiscovered variant virus really sucks. For having done Windows Network Administration for 10+ years, I felt rather at a loss. It's all better now, and with the arrests made, I'd like to offer my choice in punishment for these dirtbags if they get convicted.
I work for a large construction company and on some jobsites, it takes a while for for the sanitation crews to get around to pump out the Port-a-potties. I would suggest they farm these guys out to clean out some of these nasty johns... with only a short straw and lung inhalation power.
He didn't want anyone to know he trully did work for Novell and was his watch that sank them for the "We Can Beat Microsoft by buying WordPerfect, ooops guess not" billion dollar fiasco.....
I lived in Australia in the late 90s and all I can say is what a load of hypocrisy....
I remember after I moved there two distinct events. One was a television show which if I recall correctly was on the ABC (We Americans would call it PBS) was called "Sex Live" and I was stunned to see the level of graphic sexual content in this show. The 1st show I remember seeing was on how creative a woman could be with her "Map of Tasmania" - Muff to the Yanks - and all I remember thinking is "This wouldn't even pass Cinemax at 2am".
The 2nd was the day after I arrived in Melbourne 2 local policemen were killed in the line of duty. The Australian press had this as a front page headline for nearly 2 weeks. As a transplanted New Yorker living in California, I recalled thinking "This would make the front page news for what, a day?"
I own the PC version of GTA:SA and I can't think that anything I've seen in it so far would raise the hackles of Aussies aside from the violence. If they can show muff makeovers on their free-to-air TV, during a primetime slot no less, why on Earth would the stupid sexual mini-game in GTA:SA even BOTHER your typical Australian? Did Jack Thompson and Hillary Clinton start randomly ringing 011-61 numbers and get hold of John Howard or Kim Beazley? Frankly, the fact that there's as much cop killing in GTA:SA and the fact that it seemed all of Australia was in an uproar about these two cops getting shot I could understand the game being banned due to violence - but the sex?
Granted, Aussies are subjected to alot of American TV and idealisms but most that I remember either looked at it as crap or weren't impressed. Funny how it turns that moralisms change upon which way the wind is blowing in North America.
We Welcome Austraila into the union as the 51st state and will hence be renamed "South Hawaii". Please turn in all your stores of Vegemite and 4-20's for peanut butter and frozen burritos.
The IT consultancy I worked for at the time our young German friend released his worm made a chunk of change cleaning up his mess he left behind.
Frankly, I think he should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. He's no different then Mitnick and he went to jail for a long time, nor that fat tub of retard who modified Blaster who should have been posterboy'ed.
*shrug*
I owned UR2 and remember how much pain it took to finish that game with all the crashiness it had using a specific SB soundcard. The gameplay was great, albeit short and annoying when it blew up.
You must be on the other side of town if you have to deal with FN.
I'm in Antelope and I have ONE broadband option being Comcast which pushes cable at 1.5mb/256K for $49.00/mo with a no-server restriction (however they've never come after me yet)
WinFirst (now owned by Surewest) was going to start building its 10mb/10mb Fiber to The House down towards my way but they ran out of money 2 years ago and Surewest is not doing any new development anytime soon.
Nearly all of my area is outside of SBC's DSL footprint
Thought I'd weigh in on seeing it (and starting the repeat since I missed the 1st 45 minutes of it)
Not bad. Olmos does a decent job of doing Adama and there's enough Battlestar lingo (Frack this and that) to bring me back to my childhood for a little bit. Hat's off to SciFi for not totally butchering it.....At least the Viper pilots don't scream "Yo" when answering one another...
as a @home/Comcast/ATTBI/Back to Comcast cable user I've seen great (@home) not so great (ATTBI) and downright crap (what I have now) I just think it's kind of odd that this 'cap' comes out on the heels of Comcast being the 1st of the bunch of providers who hold my monopolized area (no DSL/Fiber/Wireless) to release a tiering system (Regular 1.5mb down/256 up and "Pro" 3.5mb down/384 up).... I'm guessing they want to save some bandwidth for the people who are willing to shell out another 50.00 a month ($99.95) for something we had 4 years ago when @home was in town.
They'll throw in 5 "Static" Addresses for you (Their disclaimer: 5 Persistent IP Addresses- As a result of Network enhancements or upgrades, it is possible for your IP address to change periodically. We will be unable to notify you of an IP address change)
Other gotchas: Actual speeds may vary and are not guaranteed. Many factors affect download speed...Available in Comcast wired and serviceable areas only. Service may not be available in all areas. Use is subject to Comcast High-Speed Internet Subscriber Agreement (and when installed in a business location, the Comcast High-Speed Internet Pro Addendum). Up to 5 computers may be connected to the service and no servers may be installed on the service.
So basically, they still don't want us to use our routers for more than 5 computers, and still won't let us have servers, and and and... we pay twice as much for what would probably be around the same speeds we're getting now anyway.
Until they spank all those bandwidth hogs!:)
If anyone upgrades to this Pro deal in 95843 Sacramento County, let me know what kind of speeds you get. I'm curious.
This chubbasaurus is an 18 year old adult (not a child; he can go to big boy's prison now, not kiddie kamp jail) I say send a message to all the script kiddies out there. Taking down large networks and causing X number of dollars in damages, lost productivity, etc. is a serious crime. If this POS gets the maximum penalty, maybe it'll make others (at least in countries that will do something about it) think twice.
Yes, Fatbastard did just tinker with the virus that he obviously didn't create himself. However, it's not his first crime his aliases point to according to what news is out there and his site hacking adventures.
Sadly, I would be willing to bet the author of the parent worm is probably not from the USA and from some country that has no cybercrime laws nor any extradition policy with the USA and will probably not be caught.
Get out a hanging judge, a short rope, and a long prison sentence.
Maybe Chubbs can pump some iron in prison and drop 200 lbs off his frame and come out a new man.
I too am in a similar situation. I had my entire CD collection in transit when my car magically disappeared one night (and found stripped 5 days later) My auto insurance capped @ $200 for possessions in the car and that would have covered 1/8 of my collection. At least I have the list I presented to my insurance company of my lost CDs and have the empty jewel cases for 95% of my music stored somewhere.
After losing control of his old company EA, he was determined to "show them" by making 3DO bigger and better. Guess he didn't succeed...
It's not that he didn't succeed, he tried to the wrong way. EA was always a publisher. 3DO was a hardware vendor (of some very expensive hardware I might add) before they turned to the soft stuff. Frankly, he could have made 3DO bigger or better, but EA did come 1st and when you're not the 1st out of the gate you're at a disadvantage and Trip and Co had to play catchup right up to the end.
I've never played any 3DO game outside of High Heat and I have seen noticable quality slips as 3DO's fortune waned. This year's product is really a beta title at best, when in past years they owned the market, and EA's baseball titles were minor league in comparison.
I can only hope and pray that Microsoft re-enters the baseball sim market and throws out all the crap 3DO conjured up for 2K4 and does it the justice that a fat wallet can do.
I'm not so sure on how doomed HH is. Microsoft games as of late (OK, we'll just say Freelancer) haven't been horrible....and all Microsoft did buy was the HH engine. Microsoft didn't want EA to have the only game in town in the baseball sim market so they had to step in......that said, Microsoft has already walked away from the baseball game market once before, even when they were using the Monkey Engine for the backend stuff, which I thought was very cool.
Here's to hoping that Microsoft puts the necessary design team and resources together and puts out a game that 3DO was on track doing in years past.
The Sega Marketoids exceeded their bandwidth allotment (after being/.'ed no doubt) or the "beta tester" ran out of money or ran into a mail room guy.... conspiracy theories abound!
The Cuckoo's Egg is a bit dated (Using a paper clip across the phone contacts to simulate a dirty line?) but a great book nonetheless.
What's the subname of T3 that comes out in July
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"Rise of the machines". What runs those machines... software (How many times did the Terminator reboot across both existing movies movies?)....who "creates" (and using the term losely) a lot of software.... Microsoft.
The day that Arnie becomes a "Strategic Partner" with M$ is the day I punch my own ticket.
Nah, I'd go with a rack of blade servers running W2K3 Server. The weather hasn't been very compatible with me as of late....Days of the same old 90' California weather is getting old. How about 90 and sunny and a hailstorm the next? Doesn't that sound fun?
X-com.... IMHO, Redo the whole series. X/C 1 was by far the best of the bunch and the rest went swiftly downhill.
Syndicate: I just found my install disks for this game not too long ago. I'd like to see it remade since I never did get closure on this game....that final mission on the oil platform (?) I could never complete....
My hope for remake is the soon to be orphaned High Heat franchise from now bankrupt 3DO. Last year's (HH 2003) had all the guts of a stats game and had a rather average set of graphics. With this year's game, they threw out everything that was good and tried to hide it with great graphics and no mouse support. Now that 3DO died a painful death, hopefully someone will scoop up the franchise and bring it back to greatness. For PCs, they're only competing with EA's yearly disapointment in its Triple Play/MVP franchise. Either that, or I can only hope that Sega ports WSB to the big box.
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The CNN report I saw on this said these sleezebags also created the RBOT variant (which I'm guessing is an offshoot of of ZOTOB) and I hope these guys see some some serious jail time. My company got hit with RBOT.CDM variant which Trend didn't have a pattern for on Wednesday and entered via a laptop that hadn't been patched in a while that was placed someone's unsecured connection, and brought in the virus around our firewall. At least it caused OfficeScan to break on one of the downstream infectees and the end user was smart enugh to notice his Real Time Scanner icon turned red (which means something took it offline) and even smarter to call and ask about it. A quick investigation showed the Registry Editor and CMD prompt were suddenly inaccessable, but it's a ugly feeling to scan the file with the latest pattern and the Controlled Release pattern scan right over the file and not report anything. At that point, you rip all the downstream infectees off the network, call Trend and wait (WAY too long I might add) for them to send you their forensic toolkit, which you run on the infected machine and take the 65MB snapshot it writes out and FTP it them. They had a pattern fix (which they call a "bandage pattern") for us the next day along with a cleanup method. 15 infected machines later, you're done.
... with only a short straw and lung inhalation power.
I can honestly say being at ground zero for an undiscovered variant virus really sucks. For having done Windows Network Administration for 10+ years, I felt rather at a loss. It's all better now, and with the arrests made, I'd like to offer my choice in punishment for these dirtbags if they get convicted.
I work for a large construction company and on some jobsites, it takes a while for for the sanitation crews to get around to pump out the Port-a-potties. I would suggest they farm these guys out to clean out some of these nasty johns
That'll learn 'em
A whole lotta marketing hype....
I'll wait until November to see if it can outdo my Dual Core Megabox that only cost me 4 1/2x that of a 360...the fancy one.
He didn't want anyone to know he trully did work for Novell and was his watch that sank them for the "We Can Beat Microsoft by buying WordPerfect, ooops guess not" billion dollar fiasco.....
I lived in Australia in the late 90s and all I can say is what a load of hypocrisy....
I remember after I moved there two distinct events. One was a television show which if I recall correctly was on the ABC (We Americans would call it PBS) was called "Sex Live" and I was stunned to see the level of graphic sexual content in this show. The 1st show I remember seeing was on how creative a woman could be with her "Map of Tasmania" - Muff to the Yanks - and all I remember thinking is "This wouldn't even pass Cinemax at 2am".
The 2nd was the day after I arrived in Melbourne 2 local policemen were killed in the line of duty. The Australian press had this as a front page headline for nearly 2 weeks. As a transplanted New Yorker living in California, I recalled thinking "This would make the front page news for what, a day?"
I own the PC version of GTA:SA and I can't think that anything I've seen in it so far would raise the hackles of Aussies aside from the violence. If they can show muff makeovers on their free-to-air TV, during a primetime slot no less, why on Earth would the stupid sexual mini-game in GTA:SA even BOTHER your typical Australian? Did Jack Thompson and Hillary Clinton start randomly ringing 011-61 numbers and get hold of John Howard or Kim Beazley? Frankly, the fact that there's as much cop killing in GTA:SA and the fact that it seemed all of Australia was in an uproar about these two cops getting shot I could understand the game being banned due to violence - but the sex?
Granted, Aussies are subjected to alot of American TV and idealisms but most that I remember either looked at it as crap or weren't impressed. Funny how it turns that moralisms change upon which way the wind is blowing in North America.
We Welcome Austraila into the union as the 51st state and will hence be renamed "South Hawaii". Please turn in all your stores of Vegemite and 4-20's for peanut butter and frozen burritos.
The IT consultancy I worked for at the time our young German friend released his worm made a chunk of change cleaning up his mess he left behind. Frankly, I think he should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. He's no different then Mitnick and he went to jail for a long time, nor that fat tub of retard who modified Blaster who should have been posterboy'ed. *shrug*
I owned UR2 and remember how much pain it took to finish that game with all the crashiness it had using a specific SB soundcard. The gameplay was great, albeit short and annoying when it blew up.
You must be on the other side of town if you have to deal with FN.
I'm in Antelope and I have ONE broadband option being Comcast which pushes cable at 1.5mb/256K for $49.00/mo with a no-server restriction (however they've never come after me yet)
WinFirst (now owned by Surewest) was going to start building its 10mb/10mb Fiber to The House down towards my way but they ran out of money 2 years ago and Surewest is not doing any new development anytime soon.
Nearly all of my area is outside of SBC's DSL footprint
Thought I'd weigh in on seeing it (and starting the repeat since I missed the 1st 45 minutes of it)
....At least the Viper pilots don't scream "Yo" when answering one another...
Not bad. Olmos does a decent job of doing Adama and there's enough Battlestar lingo (Frack this and that) to bring me back to my childhood for a little bit. Hat's off to SciFi for not totally butchering it.
Have one, had the other...Aside from figuring out I'm old, which is which? :)
as a @home/Comcast/ATTBI/Back to Comcast cable user I've seen great (@home) not so great (ATTBI) and downright crap (what I have now) I just think it's kind of odd that this 'cap' comes out on the heels of Comcast being the 1st of the bunch of providers who hold my monopolized area (no DSL/Fiber/Wireless) to release a tiering system (Regular 1.5mb down /256 up and "Pro" 3.5mb down /384 up) .... I'm guessing they want to save some bandwidth for the people who are willing to shell out another 50.00 a month ($99.95) for something we had 4 years ago when @home was in town.
... we pay twice as much for what would probably be around the same speeds we're getting now anyway.
:)
They'll throw in 5 "Static" Addresses for you (Their disclaimer: 5 Persistent IP Addresses- As a result of Network enhancements or upgrades, it is possible for your IP address to change periodically. We will be unable to notify you of an IP address change)
Other gotchas: Actual speeds may vary and are not guaranteed. Many factors affect download speed...Available in Comcast wired and serviceable areas only. Service may not be available in all areas. Use is subject to Comcast High-Speed Internet Subscriber Agreement (and when installed in a business location, the Comcast High-Speed Internet Pro Addendum). Up to 5 computers may be connected to the service and no servers may be installed on the service.
So basically, they still don't want us to use our routers for more than 5 computers, and still won't let us have servers, and and and
Until they spank all those bandwidth hogs!
If anyone upgrades to this Pro deal in 95843 Sacramento County, let me know what kind of speeds you get. I'm curious.
This chubbasaurus is an 18 year old adult (not a child; he can go to big boy's prison now, not kiddie kamp jail) I say send a message to all the script kiddies out there. Taking down large networks and causing X number of dollars in damages, lost productivity, etc. is a serious crime. If this POS gets the maximum penalty, maybe it'll make others (at least in countries that will do something about it) think twice.
Yes, Fatbastard did just tinker with the virus that he obviously didn't create himself. However, it's not his first crime his aliases point to according to what news is out there and his site hacking adventures.
Sadly, I would be willing to bet the author of the parent worm is probably not from the USA and from some country that has no cybercrime laws nor any extradition policy with the USA and will probably not be caught.
Get out a hanging judge, a short rope, and a long prison sentence.
Maybe Chubbs can pump some iron in prison and drop 200 lbs off his frame and come out a new man.
I too am in a similar situation. I had my entire CD collection in transit when my car magically disappeared one night (and found stripped 5 days later) My auto insurance capped @ $200 for possessions in the car and that would have covered 1/8 of my collection. At least I have the list I presented to my insurance company of my lost CDs and have the empty jewel cases for 95% of my music stored somewhere.
Where's that fit under fair use?
After losing control of his old company EA, he was determined to "show them" by making 3DO bigger and better. Guess he didn't succeed...
It's not that he didn't succeed, he tried to the wrong way. EA was always a publisher. 3DO was a hardware vendor (of some very expensive hardware I might add) before they turned to the soft stuff. Frankly, he could have made 3DO bigger or better, but EA did come 1st and when you're not the 1st out of the gate you're at a disadvantage and Trip and Co had to play catchup right up to the end.
I've never played any 3DO game outside of High Heat and I have seen noticable quality slips as 3DO's fortune waned. This year's product is really a beta title at best, when in past years they owned the market, and EA's baseball titles were minor league in comparison.
I can only hope and pray that Microsoft re-enters the baseball sim market and throws out all the crap 3DO conjured up for 2K4 and does it the justice that a fat wallet can do.
I'm not so sure on how doomed HH is. Microsoft games as of late (OK, we'll just say Freelancer) haven't been horrible....and all Microsoft did buy was the HH engine. Microsoft didn't want EA to have the only game in town in the baseball sim market so they had to step in... ...that said, Microsoft has already walked away from the baseball game market once before, even when they were using the Monkey Engine for the backend stuff, which I thought was very cool.
Here's to hoping that Microsoft puts the necessary design team and resources together and puts out a game that 3DO was on track doing in years past.
The Sega Marketoids exceeded their bandwidth allotment (after being /.'ed no doubt) or the "beta tester" ran out of money or ran into a mail room guy .... conspiracy theories abound!
Freelancer and it's Keyboard\Mouse only input did happen to be the 1st game that came to my mind.
The Cuckoo's Egg is a bit dated (Using a paper clip across the phone contacts to simulate a dirty line?) but a great book nonetheless.
"Rise of the machines". What runs those machines ... software (How many times did the Terminator reboot across both existing movies movies?)....who "creates" (and using the term losely) a lot of software .... Microsoft.
The day that Arnie becomes a "Strategic Partner" with M$ is the day I punch my own ticket.
Nah, I'd go with a rack of blade servers running W2K3 Server. The weather hasn't been very compatible with me as of late....Days of the same old 90' California weather is getting old. How about 90 and sunny and a hailstorm the next? Doesn't that sound fun?
X-com .... IMHO, Redo the whole series. X/C 1 was by far the best of the bunch and the rest went swiftly downhill.
Syndicate: I just found my install disks for this game not too long ago. I'd like to see it remade since I never did get closure on this game....that final mission on the oil platform (?) I could never complete....
My hope for remake is the soon to be orphaned High Heat franchise from now bankrupt 3DO. Last year's (HH 2003) had all the guts of a stats game and had a rather average set of graphics. With this year's game, they threw out everything that was good and tried to hide it with great graphics and no mouse support. Now that 3DO died a painful death, hopefully someone will scoop up the franchise and bring it back to greatness. For PCs, they're only competing with EA's yearly disapointment in its Triple Play/MVP franchise. Either that, or I can only hope that Sega ports WSB to the big box.