It was dinner, self serve, the g/f got called in to work a double.
I've always thought that/. should have one topic that would be an OT thread, just for times like that earlier, and have it linked on the front page. Kinda a free for all thread. They do have the IRC chat, but I seldom get there. Interesting side note: I'm the owner of Chatmag, and yet I have little time to actually "chat".
Well, back to work time here, take care, and see you around/.
The interesting thing about it was that it looked as if it came from a/. user. I did get the answer, its the W32/Bagle-K worm. I thought if it was sent by a real person, and not a worm, then posting it here would of at least let them know that I know. As it turns out, its the worm, so, I'll just go back to my nap till the next crisis hits, or dinner, whichever comes first.
Just got this in my email inbox. Someone here have an infected machine??? (the attachment was a Netsky worm) The email was not sent by our email server, it looks like it originated with a Comcast user.
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Date:
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Hello user of Chatmag.com e-mail server,
Your e-mail account has been temporary disabled because of unauthorized access.
For details see the attached file.
For security purposes the attached file is password protected. Password is "36825".
Kind regards,
The Chatmag.com team
Dark Helmet: "Prepare to be scared"
SpaceBall 1: "Prepare to be scared"
SpaceBall 2: "Prepare to be scared"
Dark Helmet: "Why are you always preparing, just be scared"
They did the name change to Claria so they could fool the public into thinking they were not connected with the scum/spyware company Gator.
It's only a matter of time until they start up their lawsuits against anyone that calls them scum/spyware.
From an article regarding Gator/Claria:
In October, Gator threatened legal action against a site that dared to call its
software spyware. They claim that it's only spyware if it's downloaded
without the person knowing about it. Having just spent some of my
Thanksgiving vacation removing Gator from my father's computer, I beg to
differ. Most people who end up with Gator on their system have no idea
how it got there - which appears to fit even Gator's own definition of
spyware. Now, despite changing their name to Claria, it appears that Gator
won't be able to shake the critics they threatened to sue. While PC Pitstop
agreed to remove pages calling Gator spyware, they're coming back with a
new site that is just as critical of Claria/Gator. Apparently, they've carefully
worded the site to abide by the terms of the settlement. They don't call
Gator spyware, but give the definition of spyware and then explain how
Gator matches that definition. Should be interesting to see how Gator
responds. Of course, the angrier they get, the more attention will get drawn
to the way they get their application onto computers.
In related news. In a cost cutting measure, the Pentagon announces that the Navy Top Gun Flight School will be closed, and all future students will spend a week as a NYC cab driver. This measure is not expected to lessen graduates abilities to perform to standards.
How about the "You've Got Mail" voice, over and over and over, etc. A lot of the general public is already conditioned to react negatively to anything AOL related, so I figure they would attack the thief out of habit.
I tried Great Domains for a few that I had that I didnt need, with zero results. I then did some research into companies that would fit the domain names, and contacted them directly, explaining the situation, and made two sales in a month. You may want to try that.
(offtopic, but still informative, isnt it, mods?)
From the article:
"Zuccarini admitted in court documents that one reason he preyed on websites popular among children was ''because children are more likely than adults to make spelling errors and to mis-type website addresses,'' prosecutors said.
If he had made the statement that he misspelled the domain names to attract adults, thats one thing, but in his case intention is everything. He should of received 30 years.
From the article:
"During World War II cargo planes would drop supplies on Pacific Islands for later retrieve. Islanders without an understanding of technology joined cargo cults in hopes of petitioning their gods for more."
So when I'm uploading a bunch of files, and screaming at a slow connection, can I now claim I'm having a "religious experience"?
You're right on that one. I don't think I've ever been spammed by a Ford dealer, any well known local or national company. It's all been porn, bogus drugs, Nigerian scams, etc.
I've always believed educating users not to respond to spam would be the best way to go, but how do we educate people. Why not have the PC makers put up a warning banner before the OS loads, and can't be disabled. Make them see it every time they boot up.
Some simple message like "Unsolicited Commercial Email (spam) is a major problem facing Internet users. Please do not respond to spam, or click on any links in any email you have not requested, or sent from persons you do not know. Your computer will not function until you press the "I understand and promise not to respond to spam" button."
I know its simplistic, but you have to go to the level of the most casual of Internet user to get the message across.
I had submitted that piece of information at about 3pm EST, and see it was not included in the original story. Sophos has an alert, including all of the sites mentioned.
Doubleclick is a public company, and I would imagine that the FTC is going to be getting involved in tracking down the person responsible for MyDoom B. Anything that interferes with a public company gets more attention than an attack against a small privately held company.
I can understand the rationale for blocking the antivirus sites, but still have not quite figured out what a person would gain by blocking Doubleclick.
Wouldn't the instructions for building the Ark be considered a technical manual? It certainly predates Chaucer. The Ark of the Covenant would be another example of a how-to.
I still crack up listening to Bill Cosby's "Noah".
When Yugo first started to import to the US, I was running an open car carrier, and over the course of a year picked up several hundred Yugos from the port of Houston. Most of them could not go into reverse gear, and the wheelbase was so narrow I had to deck the racks with plywood to prevent them from falling into the middle of the trailer. I couldn't find a picture of one on a carrier, but here are Yugo's on a train car Still a narrow fit, and worse on a car carrier.
Due to not being able to put the car into reverse, I loaded them nose to the front and to unload, I had to tilt the front of each rack up high enough for gravity to take over, put the the car in neutral, and back off the racks. To paraphrase Yakov Smirnov, "what a ride".
After a run in last year with SPEWS, and after some investigation, I believe I have found SPEWS owner/administrator, and posted last March as SPEWS no longer anonymous
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Thanks, you're right. I"m going back to bed :)
Correction: It's Zuker/Abrams/Zuker. Been a long nite for me, sorry.
I'd like to see Mel Brooks or Abrams/Zuker/Abrams do a Godzilla movie.
"There's a large reptile devouring Tokyo" "What is it"? "It's a large city in Japan, but thats not important now"
It was dinner, self serve, the g/f got called in to work a double.
/. should have one topic that would be an OT thread, just for times like that earlier, and have it linked on the front page. Kinda a free for all thread. They do have the IRC chat, but I seldom get there. Interesting side note: I'm the owner of Chatmag, and yet I have little time to actually "chat".
/.
I've always thought that
Well, back to work time here, take care, and see you around
It could be powered by sun in a jar.
Carried by a two legged robot.
And uses the latest ghost voice.
The interesting thing about it was that it looked as if it came from a /. user. I did get the answer, its the W32/Bagle-K worm. I thought if it was sent by a real person, and not a worm, then posting it here would of at least let them know that I know. As it turns out, its the worm, so, I'll just go back to my nap till the next crisis hits, or dinner, whichever comes first.
LOL! mod you funny. Actually, I find it was intentionally sent, so I'm handling it.
Just got this in my email inbox. Someone here have an infected machine??? (the attachment was a Netsky worm) The email was not sent by our email server, it looks like it originated with a Comcast user.
Return-path: michael@NoSpam.slashdot.org Envelope-to: editor@chatmag.com Delivery-date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 07:19:22 -0500 Received: from [68.40.232.44] (helo=carol-evaw4c178) by beula.chatmag.com with smtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AyVLN-0005up-C2 for editor@chatmag.com; Wed, 03 Mar 2004 07:19:21 -0500 Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 07:19:12 -0500 To: editor@chatmag.com Subject: E-mail account disabling warning. From: management@chatmag.com Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--------ffmsaotvpifkeajswaag" X-Mozilla-Status: 8001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 X-UIDL: 613b1e578bd29ab43b4b99295fe8bcd5 Hello user of Chatmag.com e-mail server, Your e-mail account has been temporary disabled because of unauthorized access. For details see the attached file. For security purposes the attached file is password protected. Password is "36825". Kind regards, The Chatmag.com team
From the article: "listings of likes and pet peeves."
Shouldn't that be "human peeves"?
Come on now, I am three miles from the dogster.com server in Gainesville, Fl, and I can't access it.
*goes off looking for the "pause Internet" button*
Dark Helmet: "Prepare to be scared" SpaceBall 1: "Prepare to be scared" SpaceBall 2: "Prepare to be scared" Dark Helmet: "Why are you always preparing, just be scared"
They did the name change to Claria so they could fool the public into thinking they were not connected with the scum/spyware company Gator. It's only a matter of time until they start up their lawsuits against anyone that calls them scum/spyware.
From an article regarding Gator/Claria:
In October, Gator threatened legal action against a site that dared to call its software spyware. They claim that it's only spyware if it's downloaded without the person knowing about it. Having just spent some of my Thanksgiving vacation removing Gator from my father's computer, I beg to differ. Most people who end up with Gator on their system have no idea how it got there - which appears to fit even Gator's own definition of spyware. Now, despite changing their name to Claria, it appears that Gator won't be able to shake the critics they threatened to sue. While PC Pitstop agreed to remove pages calling Gator spyware, they're coming back with a new site that is just as critical of Claria/Gator. Apparently, they've carefully worded the site to abide by the terms of the settlement. They don't call Gator spyware, but give the definition of spyware and then explain how Gator matches that definition. Should be interesting to see how Gator responds. Of course, the angrier they get, the more attention will get drawn to the way they get their application onto computers.
In related news. In a cost cutting measure, the Pentagon announces that the Navy Top Gun Flight School will be closed, and all future students will spend a week as a NYC cab driver. This measure is not expected to lessen graduates abilities to perform to standards.
How about the "You've Got Mail" voice, over and over and over, etc. A lot of the general public is already conditioned to react negatively to anything AOL related, so I figure they would attack the thief out of habit.
National Fruit Products in Winchester, Virginia (hometown of my Virginia office) is talking about buying the whitehouse.com domain name.
I tried Great Domains for a few that I had that I didnt need, with zero results. I then did some research into companies that would fit the domain names, and contacted them directly, explaining the situation, and made two sales in a month. You may want to try that. (offtopic, but still informative, isnt it, mods?)
From the article: "Zuccarini admitted in court documents that one reason he preyed on websites popular among children was ''because children are more likely than adults to make spelling errors and to mis-type website addresses,'' prosecutors said.
If he had made the statement that he misspelled the domain names to attract adults, thats one thing, but in his case intention is everything. He should of received 30 years.
From the article: "During World War II cargo planes would drop supplies on Pacific Islands for later retrieve. Islanders without an understanding of technology joined cargo cults in hopes of petitioning their gods for more."
So when I'm uploading a bunch of files, and screaming at a slow connection, can I now claim I'm having a "religious experience"?
Something along the same lines, NPR had a series called Lost and Found Sounds, with recordings of the Northern Lights
You're right on that one. I don't think I've ever been spammed by a Ford dealer, any well known local or national company. It's all been porn, bogus drugs, Nigerian scams, etc.
I've always believed educating users not to respond to spam would be the best way to go, but how do we educate people. Why not have the PC makers put up a warning banner before the OS loads, and can't be disabled. Make them see it every time they boot up.
Some simple message like "Unsolicited Commercial Email (spam) is a major problem facing Internet users. Please do not respond to spam, or click on any links in any email you have not requested, or sent from persons you do not know. Your computer will not function until you press the "I understand and promise not to respond to spam" button."
I know its simplistic, but you have to go to the level of the most casual of Internet user to get the message across.
I had submitted that piece of information at about 3pm EST, and see it was not included in the original story. Sophos has an alert, including all of the sites mentioned.
Doubleclick is a public company, and I would imagine that the FTC is going to be getting involved in tracking down the person responsible for MyDoom B. Anything that interferes with a public company gets more attention than an attack against a small privately held company.
I can understand the rationale for blocking the antivirus sites, but still have not quite figured out what a person would gain by blocking Doubleclick.
Wouldn't the instructions for building the Ark be considered a technical manual? It certainly predates Chaucer. The Ark of the Covenant would be another example of a how-to.
I still crack up listening to Bill Cosby's "Noah".
When Yugo first started to import to the US, I was running an open car carrier, and over the course of a year picked up several hundred Yugos from the port of Houston. Most of them could not go into reverse gear, and the wheelbase was so narrow I had to deck the racks with plywood to prevent them from falling into the middle of the trailer. I couldn't find a picture of one on a carrier, but here are Yugo's on a train car Still a narrow fit, and worse on a car carrier.
Due to not being able to put the car into reverse, I loaded them nose to the front and to unload, I had to tilt the front of each rack up high enough for gravity to take over, put the the car in neutral, and back off the racks. To paraphrase Yakov Smirnov, "what a ride".
Mike should of registered michaelrowesoft.com posted his birth certificate on the index page, and let Microsoft stuff it.
What about this one: Domain Name: MIKEROWSOFT.COM Created on: 27-Aug-02
Or this one: domain: michrowsoft.com created: 23-Jan-2004 registration-expiration: 23-Jan-2005
I just wonder how many variations there are out there.
Microsoft, a division of Stuart Pidowsky Enterprises, but their friends call them Stu Pid.
After a run in last year with SPEWS, and after some investigation, I believe I have found SPEWS owner/administrator, and posted last March as SPEWS no longer anonymous