Hello windowsupdate.microsoft.com ...Time to die!

[sime]

This has potential...

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/08/13/internet.blaster.reut/index.html

The question of course is will it work?

Looking here will probably answer that...

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=windowsupdate.microsoft.com

later

Sime

[jasonlane]

Hehehehheheh                


Also I see that 135 ain't doing them to good at the mo'............

25,000000 and rising (or is it off the graph????)



[ August 13, 2003: Message edited by: Zardoz ]

[Fett101]

It's not as if the planned attack on the windows update server is a surprise. They'll likely put plans into motion to reduce the worms damage.

[hm_murdock]

someone should put plans into effect to reduce the effectiveness of their plansto reduce the worm's effect

[raptor]

M$ knows.

[Stilly]

well now that it has taken effect, has anyone noticed any difference in internet speed?

[ August 16, 2003: Message edited by: The Stiller ]

[raptor]

no.

M$ is getting traffic : http://www.microsoft.com/security/articles/improving_pc_security.asp

[raptor]

isnt it impossible to improve security in XP?   :rolleyes:

[guest94]

Dudez, it looks like the August 16 hackathon for Microsoft was a complete failure.  Take a look at this story:  Microsoft gets chance to fend off attack - it attacks windowsupdate.com, as opposed to windowsupdate.microsoft.com.  I thought the writer of the worm might have been a bit clueless when I heard of how inefficiently it spreads itself (I don't think the crashing is part of the plan most of the time).  He wasted a good opportunity to: (i) attack M$ Windoze users and (ii) attack M$.  But I'd say another variant of the worm will emerge.  I'd say you could get a LOT worse than what "Blaster" can do.  This badly written one's little more than a pain in the ass...

[guest94]

AND another thing.. @ the Netcraft website it was last updated some time in July, and any increase in traffic is probably due to people patching their systems before this worm!!!

[Merlin]

Of course the Blaster worm didn't work
Microsoft changed to Linux
Linux doesn't have the RPC vulnerability
What's really pissing off is that M$ still has the guts to say it wasn't a big deal.
Of course it won't be if u move to Linux.
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.microsoft.com
Microsoft.com is running on Linux too.

[Calum]

[bigsleep]

Excellent!
I've got a screenshot of both those pages.
The server history is best as it clearly shows the change on the 15th.

I had no idea that IIs would run on Linux.

[ August 17, 2003: Message edited by: Bigsleep ]

[jasonlane]

This is only just the begining. It inspires confidence don't it that M$ can't even trust their own products, how ever it does confirm and re-affirm that M$ are in the wrong business. Don't give up the day jobs boys.

How long are we going to have to wait until M$ are off the scene so we can get on with some real work?

[TheQuirk]

Ugh. Get a hold of yourself. Microsoft simply used Akamai's caching service to get load off of their (Microsoft's) servers.