__/ [Rev Turd Fredericks] on Wednesday 09 November 2005 04:42 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> __/ [Perfect Reign] on Tuesday 08 November 2005 15:36 \__
>>
>>> First thing my mom tells me her website is down. I check mine and - sure
>>> enough - I get very intermittent access. (She uses my reseller account.)
>>> I contact the hosting service and they tell me they've had DOS. I didn't
>>> know
>>> you could host websites under DOS. :) Seriously, it appears they had a
>>> DDOS attack last night. Grrr...
>>
>>
>> Mine has been under DoS for over a month. I get about 1,000 accesses per
>> day from Windows zombies. It was around 5,000 a day at worst, so I now
>> filter using some re-directions.
>>
>>
>>> Then, I read that there's actually a Linux worm running around shutting
>>> down PHP/CGI remote access scripts.
>>>
>>> http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_136821.htm
>>
>>
>> True. People are talking about it a lot these days. Certain CMS packages
>> are quite badly affected, as well as AWStats and the like (out-of-date
>> installations). My host was forced to go down 4 months ago due to DoS
>> attacks. Someone did not patch up a phpBB installation properly.
>>
>>
>>> I'll be sure to check under the "Additional Window ME/XP removal
>>> considerations" section to remove it.
>>
>>
>> What you need to do is wait until more countries take an example from
>> Australia.
>>
>>
http://news.com.com/Australian+ISPs+recruited+to+kill+zombies/2100-7348_3-5938170.html
>>
>> Roy
>>
> No, I would rather have all governments force MS to make better software
> or cut them off at the knees and cancel contracts with them. Why put
> more work on ISP's? It's not their fault people get infected with zombies.
It will take governments a few more years to wake up to reality or realise
what the phrase "platform migration" actually means. There is yet another
critical flaw with Windows, which was only announced today/yesterday. When
will they ever learn? Microsoft have started constructing another O/S
(Singularity) from scratch. No wonder.
Roy
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