internet slowed to a crawl... thanks microsoft!

rokrok
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
seriously, all over t.v. today, yet ANOTHER worm exploiting yet ANOTHER security hole in windows. hell, between them, email viruses, etc., my morning tech-news resembles a weather report...



"well, jim, we've got a worm that originated somewhere in california and is spreading its way eastward. expect email delays in the midwest somewhere around noon eastern, with sporadic server stability on the east coast later today. a 'blue screen' warning is in effect for particularly stupid school systems in and around the austin, texas area that opted for a dell/windows me contract back in 2001. we'll keep you posted as they day goes on. back to you..."



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  • Reply 1 of 15
    scottscott Posts: 7,431member
    Is that why I can't download my doc's from my email at work?
  • Reply 2 of 15
    rokrok Posts: 3,519member
    just about every server running microsoft's sql server was affected by end of day... so yeah, it likely caused all sorts of problems, either directly or indirectly.



    if microsoft made cars this unsafe, they'd be recalled tomorrow, wouldn't they? <img src="confused.gif" border="0">
  • Reply 3 of 15
    vandewaalsvandewaals Posts: 450member
    (chuckle) Ain't it great?



    But sometimes I wonder if it's a chicken or the egg thing. As long as the Mac has such small market share will hackers care all that much about trying to exploite Macs? I'm no computer security expert, but I wonder whether Macs would be likewise problematic if they had 95% market share? If anything...I wonder if switching to a UNIX based OS may not have opened the platform up to more viruses. At least before the Mac OS was more of a propriatary beast. Now...we have many open source components built in (Apache, etc.)



    Not that I feel bad for MicroSoft...any bad press for them is good press as far as I am concerned. But it does make me dispair sometimes. Here we have this beautiful OS, and hopefully soon we will have some great hardware to go with it...yet people STILL keep going back to Windows no matter HOW many times their Outlook server or SQL gets hosed by a worm. I recall an oft quoted saying that "No one got fired for buying IBM...". Does this mean that IT professionals would rather play it safe with software that keeps getting hosed rather than trying out something new? And yes...I know there is the cost factor, but I just have to wonder how much people will put up with from Microsoft before they FINALLY start to think "Hey...what about going Mac?" And yes..I've been drinking again...
  • Reply 4 of 15
    scottscott Posts: 7,431member
    Unix has it's problems but it's designed to be secure. Keeping users away from root and stuff like that. It's "easy" to lock up unix. But with MS if you want to use it at all then you have to take the full risk.
  • Reply 5 of 15
    n a d n e r bn a d n e r b Posts: 144member
    Web slowing to a crawl? Pfft... everytime they say there's a new worm or virus slowing the internet.. I never even notice............ :confused: (56k modem?)
  • Reply 6 of 15
    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member
    The security vulnerability was patched half a year ago. You can blame lame Windows admins again for not downloading all the latest patches and hotfixes.



    I also don't think it was a coincidence that Bill Gates sent out an e-mail yesterday to his employees making statements about being more vigilant with regard to security. Somebody was sitting on this worm just waiting for an opportunity to unleash it.



    "Microsoft has a responsibility to help its customers address these concerns, so they no longer have to choose between security and usability."



    <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />



    Thanks for stopping 10 of 13 root nameservers in their tracks, Bill.
  • Reply 7 of 15
    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    [quote]Originally posted by Eugene:

    <strong>Thanks for stopping 10 of 13 root nameservers in their tracks, Bill.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    It's funny that this "attack" killed them while <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/10/23/server.attack/index.html"; target="_blank">this</a> who had the same target, didn't. M$ brings them down itself, haha.
  • Reply 8 of 15
    cubedudecubedude Posts: 1,556member
    I;ve never expierenced any of the slow-downs I hear about. I was fine. The only problem was that .mac was down and I couldn't my email.
  • Reply 9 of 15
    alcimedesalcimedes Posts: 5,486member
    the problem is that there are weekly patches to MS platforms. now you have a server that's probably running key components for your office. invariably, those patches will fuck something up on your server horribly, and you'll end up trying to rebuild the thing from scratch.



    so what happens?



    the the real world sys. admins decide that many of these patches aren't worth taking the entire system down, or hosing everything to the point where it becomes unusuable, so they don't get patched.



    i have a feeling that if patches were few and far between they would be applied more often, but half a dozen patches per month is too many.



    [ 01-26-2003: Message edited by: alcimedes ]</p>
  • Reply 10 of 15
    aquaticaquatic Posts: 5,602member
    [quote]The security vulnerability was patched half a year ago. You can blame lame Windows admins again for not downloading all the latest patches and hotfixes. <hr></blockquote>



    Smart people wouldn't buy M$ anyway.



    U. RI was completely out all of friday and yesterday and now I'm slower than back home in the boondocks of Vt. Sad!



    Where do you want to go today? Nowhere fast!?
  • Reply 11 of 15
    serranoserrano Posts: 1,806member
    Software Update takes care of us and our *nix problems. Recall the relativley frequent security updates? As long as Apple stays on top of it we should be OK.
  • Reply 12 of 15
    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member
    [quote]Originally posted by serrano:

    <strong>Software Update takes care of us and our *nix problems. Recall the relativley frequent security updates? As long as Apple stays on top of it we should be OK.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    That doesn't mean people will update. This MS-SQL vulnerability was exposed and patched months ago.
  • Reply 13 of 15
    crusadercrusader Posts: 1,129member
    UUNet got freakin' slammed. I was up at internethealthreport during the latter stages of the attack, and it was weird watching many of the "backbone" servers silp into the red (above 180ms latency). Late in the attack, the servers in Dallas got hit the hardest for some reason. By that time they had gotten Internap back up; and most servers on the E Coast were fine so it was all good on my end. Someone over at /. suggested that Bill Gates should be arrested as a enemy combatant because S. Korea declared this a terrorist attack

    BTW: Which network runs through the tunnel in Batimore? <a href="http://www.sunspot.net/news/local/bal-trainfire.special"; target="_blank">Tunnel Fire.</a>



    [ 01-27-2003: Message edited by: Crusader ]</p>
  • Reply 14 of 15
    mcqmcq Posts: 1,543member
    According to C|Net,



    <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-982305.html"; target="_blank">Microsoft fails Slammer's security test</a>



    Microsoft was even struck by this worm. Do a better job of applying those patches!
  • Reply 15 of 15
    jante99jante99 Posts: 539member
    An easier to solution of course would be for Microsoft not to write bad programs that have so many security holes.



    The scary thing is that the entire US Military uses Windows. CNN even showed Windows being used in a Tank to e-mail other Tanks and commanders. All Iraq has to do is a release a few worms and viruses and the US Army will be shut down. <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />



    That would be a bad publicity stunt for Microsoft
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