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."
Shouldn't that be easy to fix? (Score:5, Insightful)
What a day to have problems! (Score:5, Insightful)
Smart (Score:2, Insightful)
My one permitted tin-foil hat question for today. (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:My Doom? Oh My (Score:4, Insightful)
Nick
The influence of Google in the world (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:alltheweb.com is down too?? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:My Doom? Oh My (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:My Doom? Oh My (Score:4, Insightful)
Or maybe just that the infected machines are generating thousands of queries each. In these days of multi-GHz CPU's and broadband, it wouldn't take as many millions of machines to
Re:Alright, this means war (Score:3, Insightful)
Doesn't seem like it would be all that efficient to google for email addresses. You'd have to do some parsing on the other end to dig them out of the rest of the page content, maybe a little work to make sure they weren't spam armored. Of course, I guess if you've hijacked some poor slobs computer, CPU cycles aren't really your problem anymore.
Re:Fool me once ... fool me 14 times??? (Score:2, Insightful)
Never mind the RPC vulnerabilities or the SQL Server exploit. Nah. This is the real shit. Millions of computers being operated by people who have no clue whatsoever.
When Leenucks actually makes it to the desktop someone will release a MyDoom equivalent that will turn thousands of boxes into spam-spewing zombies. Here Is teh info for yuo my friend!!!! teh tar file must be extract to ~/mydocuments ... Except this time it will be the user's fault, not the distro's. Or open source. Or Leenucks. Remember that LimeWire worm that was supposedly the new version of MS Office for Mac? How many clueless Mac owners fell for that? And whose fault was it? Apple? Noooo, it was the stupid users. Apparently Microsoft is saddled with intelligent users who can't help but be infected, and everyone else has retarded ones who should be shot because they opened an email attachment.
It's uncanny. But what's actually fucking frightening that people pushing Linux et. al. actually think they can engineer this problem away. Holy crap.
Re:Fool me once ... fool me 14 times??? (Score:1, Insightful)
You seem to forget that using Linux means you are no longer married to Intel. You can run Apple hardware, SPARC workstations, whatever works best for you. And in spite of your clueless rambling, a diverse target IS less susceptible than a target running the exact same software on the exact same archtecture. Your comparison to Macs is not valid, as Macs are now married to the PowerPC architecture. Choice is good, for a lot of reasons.
This thread brings back memories (Score:4, Insightful)
"Imagine what the world would be like without television?"
[TV static for 5 seconds then Dave comes back on]
"Scary, wasn't it?"
Now imagine the world without the Internet... +++NO CARRIER
Re:Google is doing fine for regular searches... (Score:4, Insightful)
It's base64 encoding but using a non-standard alphabet. Standard base64 doesn't have "-" or "_" IIRC.
Re:What I've seen first hand. (Score:3, Insightful)
Give it a rest you penguin-humping retard. The virus spreads through user action. Stupid users spread the virus. What the fuck is so complicated about that? Virus writers have started sending zipped viruses with attached installation instructions and these dipshits are STILL getting infected. You think if someone wrote a virus and instructed the stupid users to set the execution bit they wouldn't do it? History says you're wrong. History shows that people will follow even more complex instructions than that in order to run a virus.
Maybe if you religious rejects would spend a little more time fixing user space threats like the crufty old X system or finishing up your little game of desktop catch up that Microsoft has so sorely outpaced you in, you'd actually have a desktop system now instead of a kludged together ball of shit that wants to pretend it's UNIX while it tries to play with Windows. Pick a fucking goal and stop spending so much time and wasted breath bashing Microsoft. Christ. You little Linux and Windows zealots have got to be the stupidest subsets of all of the computer holy wars... you get on my fucking nerves. At least the BSD people have the decency to keep it to infighting that I can just ignore.
Yea yea, whatever. I'm a troll because I'm not felating your stupid little penguin. Give it a rest and just use your fucking system. You sound like a total dumbass when you sit there and blame "micro$oft" (please, spare me the droll attempt at witicism that wasn't even witty the first time someone used the dollar sign) for a problem that's clearly perpetuated by explicit user action.