Frank Hagan Posted January 25, 2003 Posted January 25, 2003 I noticed some slowness on the 'net last night. My new host sent out this email alert regarding the speed across the net: Good Morning, Once again there is a virus like worm spreading between servers throughout the Internet and causing major routing problems worldwide. This problem has pretty much brought the Internert to a crippling slowdown since midnight [Eastern Time] last night. The problem which is affecting all Internet servers is the work of a Microsoft server exploit similar to the "Code Red" virus which appeared in the summer of 2001 and is STILL bouncing around the Internet today. CNN and others are reporting this problem as being in the waning stages after a night of nearly shutting down huge portions of the Internet, but my opinion is that it will be just the first wave. Your website and all websites will most likely continue to load slowly all day. Very sorry for the inconvenience this may be causing you. More reading on the subject can be found here: http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/01/25/internet.attack.ap/index.html http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030125/ap_wo_en_po/na_gen_internet_attack_2 http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sqlexp.worm.html So even though we are now on a Linux server, and the data center we connect to the Internet through is all some variant of Unix,, the NT and other MS servers out there are still affecting us, and the rest of the Internet. Quote
capt jake Posted January 25, 2003 Posted January 25, 2003 Well this is timely. I didn't notice any slowdown here, but I have another question for you. I have been recieving a lot of infected e-mails lately, from people I do not know. Just a few minutes ago, I received a nasty e-mail from somebody telling me to stop sending infected e-mails. My machine scans clean and uploads the latest virus definitions daily. How did this person receive an infected e-mail from my e-mail address if I didn't send it?? :? Quote
Frank Hagan Posted January 25, 2003 Author Posted January 25, 2003 The "klez" variety of worms will snatch someone's address book and doctor up the infected emails it sends out so that the emails look like they are coming from another email address. So you get blamed for someone else's unclean machine! And the person with the infected machine doesn't get any feedback on it. You can refer them to this link for more info on it: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.klez.gen@mm.html#technicaldetails Diabolical little devils. :evil: Quote
capt jake Posted January 25, 2003 Posted January 25, 2003 That's kinda what I thought. Thank you!! Rats!!! Quote
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