Micro$oft is EVEEL
OK, this is not strictly sea turtle related, except that this issue causes a huge burden to the seaturtle.org server and every other server in the world. Namely the propagation of micro$oft based viruses and worms. There must be millions of infected PC users out there that don't even have a clue that they are infected. And their machines are happily spewing infected messages to the rest of the internet. I clean several hundred infected messages out of my filter logs every couple of weeks, and another 20 or so a day get through to my inbox (and probably the inbox of all the other seaturtle.org users). Not to mention the literally thousands of probes logged each day by infected windozes machines looking for weaknesses in other computers on the internet.
Bah!
Unload all of your microsoft products now! Don't wait. At the very least, DO NOT use Micro$oft Outlook. If there was ever a spawn of the devil (or incompetent programmer) Outlook is it.
Here's the latest in a long series of worms run amok on windoze systems. It's called fizzer and it's a beauty:
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Ever since I installed some firewall software, I can't believe the rate at which people try to intrude into my computer. Just today, there were more than 200 blocked attempts. Crazy.
tee-hee (for B)
Posted by: matthew | May 12, 2003 09:02 PM
Yep. All of these infected boxes that are sitting around pinging and infecting other boxes are euphemistically called "zombies". I heard a worst case scenario the other day, a scenario where some worm propagates across the internet infecting millions of machines without doing anything to make it's presence know. Then whammo! It has some pre-programmed time or event trigger and all those machines go off at once and do something really bad (like shut down the internet). Those of you out there saying "big deal" might want to do a little research. A good part of our infrastruture, like power, water, etc, uses the internet to communicate with other parts of the infrastructure. All of the automated switches moving power here and water there would just stop working. Ack!
Thanks micro$oft. Why don't you hire some real programmers!
Posted by: Michael | May 12, 2003 11:13 PM