Latest MyDoom Variant Gives Google Problems 607
Devil's BSD writes "It seems like the latest MyDoom worm variant has caused a bit of an Internet storm. Google, at this time (12:28 EDT), is returning 503 errors on all queries submitted from certain locations. The MyDoom variant searches the user's address book for email domains (i.e. @yahoo.com) and searches various engines (such as Google) for email addresses in that domain."
Alright, this means war (Score:5, Funny)
Oh no (Score:2, Funny)
Ah hah (Score:5, Funny)
I found it hard to remember the names of other search engines that I could use though.
The end of the world! (Score:5, Funny)
Nostradomus predicted this right? (Score:5, Funny)
Good Idea (Score:1, Funny)
Time for a new error (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ah hah (Score:5, Funny)
Do explain such a foreign concept as this.
Google is the one, the almighty.
No Problem... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Nostradomus predicted this right? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hrm (Score:2, Funny)
My Doom? Oh My (Score:4, Funny)
For doing the very thing we always failed at doing.
OH MY GOD, YOU SLASHDOTTED GOOGLE, YOU BASTARDS!
Yo Grark
Re:i was wondering (Score:3, Funny)
gmail still works tho, hrm.
You work in corporate communications, don't you?
Re:Ah hah (Score:5, Funny)
I found it hard to remember the names of other search engines that I could use though.
You could do a Google search for them, I suppose... :-)
Re:Alright, this means war (Score:5, Funny)
Re:HOLY FUCKING SHIT! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Nostradomus predicted this right? (Score:5, Funny)
I propose these worms be classified as DOGs (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Google key (Score:3, Funny)
I fear for zeitgeist (Score:5, Funny)
Re:An Example (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Time for a new error (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Ah hah (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, wait...
Re:Why the unevenness? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ah hah (Score:4, Funny)
My productivity... (Score:5, Funny)
My coworkers may realize I really don't know anything if I can't google up answers real soon now...
Re:Nostradomus predicted this right? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ah hah (Score:1, Funny)
Oh wait.
Fool me once ... fool me 14 times??? (Score:5, Funny)
But here we are at MyDoom.N, which is the 14th virus in a series that requires the user to:
After ignoring 13 previous warnings, I must move from sympathy to malice. For the sake of all humanity, I beg the author(s) of the MyDoom series and other viruses, in your next version, please include the following instructions:
- locate a nearby table lamp with the light on
- remove pants
- break the bulb while it is glowing
- insert testicles into bulb socket
If they're dumb enough to get fooled by MyDoom again, they're dumb enough to get themselves out of the gene pool....yes it is (Score:2, Funny)
Re:i was wondering (Score:5, Funny)
How amazingly typical.
Re:Nostradomus predicted this right? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why the unevenness? (Score:5, Funny)
"You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the OC-3 to boobies.chemist.com, but that's just peanuts to Google. Listen...", and so on.
(After a while the style settles down a bit and it begins to tell you things you really need to know, like the fact that Google has different DNS entries depending on which server you look them up from, which is only a partial solution to the bandwidth problem -- so that despite the DNS tricks, any net imbalance between the packets you send to Google and the packets Google sends back to you, must be surgically removed from your pipe: so every time you type "natalie portman hot grits" into images.google.com, it is vitally important to get a receipt.)
Re:firefox is not effected by google bug (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Nostradomus predicted this right? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Fool me once ... fool me 14 times??? (Score:5, Funny)
3a. User is told by their AV software that the attachment has a virus.
3b. User disables AV software in order to open the attachment.
Google runs Mac OS 9 ?? (Score:2, Funny)
Clearly Google is running on pre OS X Macs:
-27 abortEr IO call aborted by KillIO
-S
Dependence on Google (Score:2, Funny)
I got the error message... "Service Error -27" and immediately though "hm... I wonder what that is," and opened up a new browser window, absentmindedly typing in my query to the Google toolbar...
!@#$!@#$
I laughed for a while, scratched my head, and decided to discuss with my co-workers what the decent "second place" search engine was... Dogpile [dogpile.com] seemed to be the most common answer. No relevant results, though. Geez, Dogpile is ugly.
No real need for a new error (Score:2, Funny)
Bad Request. Bad! Go sit in the corner. Go on. Corner! Sit!
("400" errors are invalid request errors. See RFC2616 [w3.org])br>
409 Conflicting Request
An attack is a form of conflict...
412 Precondition Failed
There are conditions of use for Google. One says something to the effect of:
"You can't use automated request things which make an excessive number of requests."
A precondition of using this service is YOU ARE NOT A WORM.
There could, however, be a new one... br>
411 Problem exists between keyboard and chair
Catch all for human caused errors.
Ok... so it's not exactly accurate use for these codes, but close enough?
Re:Ah hah (Score:3, Funny)
Well, you could IF Google wasn't returning:
Server Error
The service you requested is not available at this time.
Service error -27.
Re:Time for a new error (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Ah hah (Score:5, Funny)
I tried googling for it but it just took me to the home page. I think it's broken.
Re:Ah hah (Score:4, Funny)
It took about 10 seconds for me to realize I was a dumbass.
TZ
Feeling Lucky Works (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Shouldn't that be easy to fix? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:You keep using that word.. (Score:2, Funny)
Any answer's?
Re:Why the unevenness? (Score:4, Funny)