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| | | (...) At the momment, I am getting 100% ping loss to www.brickbay.com. Yesterday, I reported to Dan several times about slowness of the brickbay server. It almost felt like the server was under great load. A traceroute (yesterday) showed some (...) (23 years ago, 18-Sep-01, to lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| | | | | Re: Problem with Brickbay? —Amy Hughes
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| | | | (...) It probably was. My web log shows *thousands* of attempts by the latest worm to infect me. Dan relies on ASP, so he's more vulnerable to these kinds of attacks. I hope people start billing Microsoft for this crap. I'm microsoft-free, and their (...) (23 years ago, 19-Sep-01, to lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| | | | | | Re: Problem with Brickbay? —Scott Sanburn
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| | | | | Amy & All, (...) Well, we can always jump on the Anti-Microsoft bandwagon (And they should have fixed this as well, don't get me wrong here), but shouldn't there be blame pointed at the people who write these worms as well? Scott S. -- (23 years ago, 19-Sep-01, to lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| | | | | | | Re: Problem with Brickbay? —Dave Johann
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| | | | | | (...) Ah, but it M$ wouldn't leave so many ways to exploit their software, then it wouldn't be exploited. Writing a worm is generally a learning experience. Releasing it to the public is the nasty part. Just my $.02 -Dave (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Problem with Brickbay? —Scott Sanburn
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| | | | | | Dave & All, (...) Yes, I guess from my perspective, I just don't understand people who willingly do something like releasing it to the public. If writing worms helps people learn how to defend against it, that's all well and good, but to mess up (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Problem with Brickbay? —John York
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| | | | | | In my opinion, more of the blame should be directed at Microsoft for their lack of planning and security. I am just amazed at the amount of viri spreading lately, and NOT 1 has affected me using RedHat Linux. Given the resources Microsoft has, there (...) (23 years ago, 21-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Problem with Brickbay? —Ray Sanders
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| | | | (...) While logged on thru earthlink last night, I turned on the personal web server on the iMac. The log was showing a nimda virii hit on average every 2-3 minutes. This was on a dialup port, which typically would have *no* port 80 server active. I (...) (23 years ago, 19-Sep-01, to lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| | | | | | Re: Problem with Brickbay? —Mark Chittenden
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| | | | | Well, brickbay is still down. And just today I heard on the morning radio about another DOS type virus running around. *SIGH* Don't script kiddies have anything better to do than to proprogate viruses that takes advantage of Microsoft's "EVERYTHING (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| | | | | | Re: Problem with Brickbay? —Dan Boger
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| | | | | (...) well, being that you're from NA, that's expected. The worm is trying to be smart, and infect mostly local ips - that way, it's not slowing down the backbone as much, and can spread further and faster. (...) hehe, aye :) I just hope someone (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| | | | | | Re: Problem with Brickbay? —David Lukens
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| | | | yeah, i'm gonna' go a hair off topic and rant a tad. (...) Aye! Well, I'm sitting here and averaging an IIS probe every 10sec. This is downright pathetic. Forensically speaking, nimda is not very interesting. It ties together a number of different (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.market.brickshops)
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