Today is a good day. Avoided the Nimda virus Joe got. Installed Apache with Mod SSL and Open SSl without one hiccup.
Now I am getting french spam… Femmes, Hommes, Couples ` la sexualiti dibridie Yesterday was fun. Found that lots of people were hitting graphics on our web server through eBay web pages. A few people I might overlook, but these were thousands of hits from a bunch of auctions. Pulled out my haxor tricks to…
Selected Hotmail subjects in my Junk Mail Folder: Secrets of the Internet – Free Porn!! 19676 Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs – The REAL stor… EXPLOITED TEENS – They came in to be models b… US$31,000,000.00 We Run Background and Asset Searches!!! Fabulous Business Opportunity! Your Own Internet Business in 30 seconds FREE Have tax…
Scavenged RAM from one old computer for another last night. Have not turned it on to see if the new boards will work yet. New Yahoo! Article…Â New Malicious Computer Worm Preys on Anthrax Scare Think the idea of “alternate” domain providers (read rogue) is not such a good idea. First of all, computers have to…
Updated the Fountain of Knowledge layout. Was more removing the picture and making the page simpler. Looking to see if my VCR will play PAL tapes. Odds are not likely. Ran across this list of Windows file extensions with executable code at techtv. The value of the list is these are the file types virus writers use to…
Here is an article on computer viruses for which I was interviewed for the Spectator, the university student news paper. Lindsey Giddens Staff Writer Viruses are running rampant and are extremely contagious. But these viruses don’t attack your immune system–they attack your hard drive. The term virus is used to describe viruses, worms and trojans.…
VSU email and web are down. I’ve been out of the office so I can only surmise that this is related to the Denial of Service attack on Wednesday evening. Very strange that there was a test attack around 3pm and then consistent bombardment starting at almost exactly 5:30 pm. Like the person knew that…
Virus writers are evil. The latest, Nimda, is a really aggressive one. Look at some of the more successful viruses right now. SirCam, Magistr, Loveletter, and Hybris are all on Trend’s top 10 list. All, including Nimda spread by email. Also, like sAdmind (in the top 10) and CodeRed II, it hits Microsoft IIS servers. Like Bymer it hits unprotected network shares.…
Sheeesh… viruses never go away. What a pain. Had to diagnose a server’s virus problem. It was attacking other servers. Found a computer lab had several viruses. Dunno why the anti-virus software caught some, but not others. All a major pain.