Internet Outage

[Crawlerman]

Okay.. I'm sure a lot of you who tried to acess this site, and many others, this morning were shut off. The Radio news claimed it to be a "minor virus that only affected a few small hosting sites.." B.S.! Most of the internet was taken down! The press did say something about the FBI getting involved.. and I think they must want to keep it hush-hush. hmm...

[This message has been edited by Crawlerman (edited 01-25-2003).]

[Guest]

Ya, MSN got whacked, my email is out.

I think they should boil them hacker punks in turkey oil, on live TV.

Hacking and breading these internet viruses is as much economic terrorism as bombs.

When will these Nerds get a life Eh?

[This message has been edited by Backwater Eddy (edited 01-25-2003).]

[Guest]

I don't have a problem with the hackers....it's those dang porn "SPAMMER" websites!!!! All those *#@@@*&^%&%* SPAM emails...If I knew how to "hack", you could bet their websites would be down for good!!!

[Guest]

It could have been a lot worse. The exploit used was in sql server, and the patch has been out there for months.
I wish they could do something about spammers. Part of the problem is how they distribute spam. Many times they use an unpatched server, so even if you track the origin of the message, it may not mean much.
If they could find a way to hold the person who runs a server that distributes spam accountable, it would help a lot.
gte

[deadeye]

'eyecatcher, I would do the same thing that you would if I knew how to hack! My little cousins were checking their e-mail at my grandma's house and there was about twenty of the porn sites that came up on it as well as ads for enlargement of several body parts. I that is just what they needed to see! That was enough to really tick me off. I wish the hackers would disable those sites!