put down the microsoft and back away slowly
In case you haven’t heard, there’s a new
big, bad worm running amok out on the ‘Net. If you’re running
Outlook or Internet Explorer, you’re on a Windows platform, odds are
you’re vulnerable. If you’re not running that particular combination
of software, congratulations!, but life still pretty much sucks,
because the worm is fairly effectively generating a DDoS on the whole
damn net.
Here, for example, at the end of my tiny wittle wodem wink (what did
you think WWW stood for?), I’ve had over 294 distinct hosts try to hit
me with the Nimda exploit(s). I say “over” because there were only 294
that I could lookup a hostname for; I didn’t bother counting the IPs
that I couldn’t lookup. Here are some samples; do with them as you
wish (although if you’re running IE, visiting them would be a
particularly bad idea):
- bne-vod1.cisco.com
- cancerq.org
- car-covers.com
- comselect.com
- investorstitle.com
- issint.com
- julymorning.com
- mail.speechaccess.com
- sportbikehype.com
- sydneyscatclub.com
- teleglobe.net
- web3.tracent.net
- wildginger.com
- www.humbledigital.com
- www.ipoem.com
- www.ntmail.net
- www.pensiononline.com
If you’re an admin associated with one of the above, SHAME ON YOU! DO YOUR DAMN JOB!
If you’re a stock-holder in one of the above, consider contacting your
neighborhood shyster and arranging to file a due diligence lawsuit
against the company in question. When there are freely available alternatives that don’t
have the extensive, problem-laden track record of IIS, you have to ask
if people are mis-managing your investment by continuing to
pay for it!
I’m normally not an advocate of this sort of nuisance lawsuit, but
damned if I can see any other way to solve the problem. It would be
one thing if it only affected the people who choose to use Microsoft
product, but it’s starting to really fuck up the ‘net for the rest of
us, too. Clearly, Microsoft is not interested in fixing their crap
product; the only remaining alternative is to scare people off of
using it. I have this faint, probably naive hope that lawsuits will
work where crashes and cracks haven’t.
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