 Joe12345678
join:2003-07-22
Des Plaines, IL | Yahoo was slow Yahoo was slow for me over the last few days | |
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 | smoky_129
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join:2002-09-04
Arab, AL | Re: Yahoo was slow same here thought it was my isp | |
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hedyd4u
Premium
join:2003-12-16
Schenectady, NY | Don't use them I don't use the search engines listed.
must be that hole in IE LOL | |
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jeffbrantley
join:2000-03-24
Ballwin, MO | This is the END! The world is coming to an end! I can't search on google! help me! How will I go on living? | |
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jeffbrantley
join:2000-03-24
Ballwin, MO | Oh wait, nevermind... I figured out that I really didn't need to know what I found on google anyway. Call off the suicide watch. | |
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Improfane
join:2003-12-05
clubs:
1 edit | Oooh Yah, I got an email from VirusBuster (even though i dont use them)
said by "VirusBuster Newsletter":
Mydoom.R spreads as an attachment to e-mail messages to addresses collected from the infected computer. The attachment to the messages is the approximately 26 kB long worm. On the infected systems is also drops a 8191 bytes long backdoor component.
MyDoom.R ?
is this the same virus?
MyDoom.M ? On Symantec?
»securityresponse.symantec.com/av···@mm.html | |
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| Sunburn
join:2000-10-05
Denver, CO | Re: Google is blocking.. Google no longer works for me either:
Google
Error
Server Error
The service you requested is not available at this time.
Service error -27. | |
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| | smoky_129
Premium
join:2002-09-04
Arab, AL | Re: Google is blocking.. google responds just fine yahoo takes forever | |
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| | Sunburn
join:2000-10-05
Denver, CO | Google will NOT respond if your company has been infected with MyDoom and Google has blocked your domain from accessing search results. We just go an email explaining this from corporate security. | |
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| | Sunburn
join:2000-10-05
Denver, CO
| »news.myway.com/top/article/id/21···ers.html
Web Worm Spreads, Slows Google Searches
Email this story
Jul 26, 2:44 PM (ET)
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - An Internet worm that uses Web search engines to find new victims spread widely on Monday, apparently causing problems for Google Inc. on the day it set the price range for its initial public offering, Internet security experts reported.
The reports about the worm, a variant of a Web attack called MyDoom, came as outages on the search site Google.com hit in the United States, France and Great Britain. In many places the site was said to be working normally.
"The latest version of MyDoom, which started arriving in people's mail boxes in force today, uses search engines to find more recipients for its message," security research service SANS reported on Monday. "Some search engines report performance issues."
Web site performance slowed broadly on Monday, suggesting the possibility that a virus or other Internet attack may be causing problems, said Keynote Systems Inc. (KEYN.O), a Web performance tracking firm.
"It could be an indication that something is impacting the Internet overall. We are certainly looking into it and also looking into the possibility of some sort of attack. We are starting to see things creep up," said Keynote spokeswoman Della Lowe. " | |
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| Flizesh
Premium
join:2003-08-16
Staten Island, NY
clubs: | works fine for me | |
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Nerdtalker
Working Hard, Or Hardly Working?
Premium,MVM
join:2003-02-18
Tucson, AZ
clubs:
| Re: Google is blocking.. Works fine for me...
Sounds almost like a DDOS... | |
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join:2002-01-26
Eustis, FL
| Re: Google is blocking.. said by Nerdtalker  :
Sounds almost like a DDOS...
It is:
quote:
...the virus searches user files for domain names, then uses Lycos, Google, Altavista, or Yahoo to find for valid e-mail addresses within these domains. Those engines in turn are having trouble keeping up with the load as the infection spreads.
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| IAmTheEvilest
There Is Nothing Like A Restart
join:2001-01-03
Santa Barbara, CA
clubs: | I can't even search for Google's own Gmail.com!  | |
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neftv
join:2000-10-01
Broomall, PA | WOW Imagine if the person or company that invented this virus put their talent to something real useful. | |
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BonezX
Basement Dweller
Premium
join:2004-04-13
Canada | jeez with all these coders making viruses you would think we could have a completely stable os, or a 100% uptime server, or even a low bandwidth videophone program, but these "coders" have nothing better to do then make viruses. | |
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| BosstonesOwn
join:2002-12-15
Everett, MA
clubs:
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| Re: jeez Id like to see the numbers on how many are out of work IT workers trying to seek revenge on the people who fired them
Then again one has to wonder how many are just script kiddies with ideas and barely enough brains to morph a virus into a semi sized problem.
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Improfane
join:2003-12-05
clubs: | I think you just stated the impossible. | |
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| jeffbrantley
join:2000-03-24
Ballwin, MO
| With a virus, you don't have to put a lot of time into it. If there is a bug, big deal! No one is using it for anything but what you want it to do.
While the code used these worms and virii isn't altogether lame, it isn't brilliant either. How much brainpower would it take to write a worm that causes all printers available to print 1000 pages with lines of gibberish? Nothing close to what it takes to create a program that analyzes the results from tests of quantum theory.
These virus writers just attempt to exploit the fruits of the real innovators. If half of the world's software/technology innovators turned evil and worked together to create worms and virii, the information superhighway would be permanently destroyed within days.
Most of the time virus writers put into their product is how to sneak it past the end user. I'm sure it took a REAL genius to figure out that you could make a lot of people open an otherwise suspicious email by labeling the attachment Anna Kournikova. Gee how did they come up with that gem! | |
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| | rengaw03
join:2002-09-13
Spokane, WA
| Re: jeez said by jeffbrantley :
How much brainpower would it take to write a worm that causes all printers available to print 1000 pages with lines of gibberish? Nothing close to what it takes to create a program that analyzes the results from tests of quantum theory.
$ftp hp-printer.target.com
$put /dev/urandom | |
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djlimon
Premium
join:2004-02-23
Montebello, CA | I can't search for nothing.... I typed "toothpaste" in the search field and got the error...So I typed "help me brush me teef" and got the error again. | |
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Anonymous
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join:2004-06-01
IA | Re: I can't search for nothing.... Google is working fine... | |
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leXicon5
Pelosi, SHUT YOUR Fing Pie Hole
Premium
join:2000-12-27
Saint Louis, MO
| Re: I can't search for nothing.... said by Anonymous :
Google is working fine...
Now....
Wasn't for over an hour... | |
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| | | Sunburn
join:2000-10-05
Denver, CO
| said by Anonymous :
Google is working fine...
You fail to see the point. It is not working fine for everybody..... | |
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P Ness
You'Ve Forgotten 9-11 Already
Premium
join:2001-08-29
Mineola, NY
clubs: | $130 Share IPO price at Fault? Maybe someone did not like or could not afford the IPO? | |
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MNeedham739
Proud To Be A Navy Veteran
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join:2003-07-20
Antioch, IL | Going insane... Fun day to be a Desktop Support tech, I know that much  | |
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r81984
Fair and Balanced
Premium
join:2001-11-14
St John'S, NL | Google Google is just blocking any search with both the word "email" and a "." in them. | |
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Piobaireachd
Happy Halloween
Premium
join:2000-09-21
Port Orchard, WA | Isn't Google *nix? I thought Google used a flavor of *nix. I'm assuming the new Mydoom variant is actually doing a DDOS rather that an attack on the server itself. | |
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major marco
Res Firma Mitescere Nescit
Premium
join:2003-02-13
Stepford, CA
clubs: | Cry Me A River And this happened on the day of Google's IPO. Coincidence I'm sure.  | |
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TheMadSwede
Premium
join:2001-01-30
Holland, MI
·Charter Pipeline
| For each... ..."me too" and "it works for me" post I read, I slapped myself across the face and shook my head violently, just trying to comprehend why someone would actually post that.
Granted, this post is almost as useless as those. But at least the point of this post is to point out how pointless those posts are.
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