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I'm gonna place a guess that they've been infected with that worm that was causing chaos around the web over the weekend...
Only a few sites work and everything is REALLY slow!
That being what happened with that worm...
Anyway, am I the only person who is getting affected by this, it's annoying me!
Only a few sites work and everything is REALLY slow!
That being what happened with that worm...
Anyway, am I the only person who is getting affected by this, it's annoying me!
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Ms NY wrote:
> Cor! Naughty BT! Reminds me of NASA, you never know what's going on
> inside those places.. except you of course :) well, inside BT that is!
> Not NASA! .. ?
wake up..
> Cor! Naughty BT! Reminds me of NASA, you never know what's going on
> inside those places.. except you of course :) well, inside BT that is!
> Not NASA! .. ?
wake up..
Azul²°°³ wrote:
> Who's the "slow joe" now, eh?
In the head - You
> Who's the "slow joe" now, eh?
In the head - You
Cor! Naughty BT! Reminds me of NASA, you never know what's going on inside those places.. except you of course :) well, inside BT that is! Not NASA! .. ?
Aha!
See??
Tis' the revenge of the 56K!
Who's the "slow joe" now, eh?
EH!?
Ha!
*runs*
See??
Tis' the revenge of the 56K!
Who's the "slow joe" now, eh?
EH!?
Ha!
*runs*
Ms NY wrote:
> Because of this worm??
Yes, because of the worm. Most of the BT servers are MS-SQL (I'm not sure if I should be telling you this :D) and somewhere, somehow, the worm managed to get it's way onto the internal, high security BT office network.
Of course, BT being all technical decided that their office phones should also run on this network. This meant network engineers had to be contacted through the mobile phones they have all been given as none of the normal phones worked.
However, mobile phone numbers for these people were stored on...you guessed it, the computer network. This meant no more engineers could be contacted, and BT had to work with what they had in the building.
Luckily, a few such as my dad were found. It put BT out of business for a day though. It hasn't even been on the news. I'm guessing they want to keep it secret so that people don't realise how easily the company can be brought down. Even the sales people were telling callers they had a "slight technical problem" and to ring back later. Slight :D
And now I've just told you this. Whoops. Ahh well.
> Because of this worm??
Yes, because of the worm. Most of the BT servers are MS-SQL (I'm not sure if I should be telling you this :D) and somewhere, somehow, the worm managed to get it's way onto the internal, high security BT office network.
Of course, BT being all technical decided that their office phones should also run on this network. This meant network engineers had to be contacted through the mobile phones they have all been given as none of the normal phones worked.
However, mobile phone numbers for these people were stored on...you guessed it, the computer network. This meant no more engineers could be contacted, and BT had to work with what they had in the building.
Luckily, a few such as my dad were found. It put BT out of business for a day though. It hasn't even been on the news. I'm guessing they want to keep it secret so that people don't realise how easily the company can be brought down. Even the sales people were telling callers they had a "slight technical problem" and to ring back later. Slight :D
And now I've just told you this. Whoops. Ahh well.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/biztech/01/28 [GIMP] /microsoft.worm.ap/index.html
It's only a few servers by the looks of it...
It's taken me about 4 minutes so far to load up the Yahoo mail page...
It's still going!
It's gonna take about 6-7 minutes to load this page, it's ~that~ slow!
Stupid worm...
It's taken me about 4 minutes so far to load up the Yahoo mail page...
It's still going!
It's gonna take about 6-7 minutes to load this page, it's ~that~ slow!
Stupid worm...
I have NTL Broadband. I had no problems. Maybe it's because my mum works there... Or not.
Yup, it was pretty beefy!
I've got my connection back now so it's not too bad...
Read...
Basically: :c)
Basically, someone came up with a way of using an exploit in MS-SQL server (and derivatives) to launch a highly efficient worm. This worm, once running on a machine would generate a random IP address, and send a ~370byte packet to another machine, trying to utilise the exploit on that. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Now, given that the worm continually generates these ~370byte packets (as fast as the network transport will handle it), and that there was nothing to stop several worms running on the same machine, you can see that switches and routers are very quickly going to poo themselves. (Oh, and it mangled the source address, so machines with nothing to do with this got hit by ICMP reply floods).
One, just one, MS-SQL server would be sufficient to bring down a Cisco 6509 router (not a cheap and nasty simple little router, this is a biggie).
So, a worm aimed at MS platforms that screws everything over for all internet users.
Nice. Not.
I've got my connection back now so it's not too bad...
Read...
Basically: :c)
Basically, someone came up with a way of using an exploit in MS-SQL server (and derivatives) to launch a highly efficient worm. This worm, once running on a machine would generate a random IP address, and send a ~370byte packet to another machine, trying to utilise the exploit on that. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Now, given that the worm continually generates these ~370byte packets (as fast as the network transport will handle it), and that there was nothing to stop several worms running on the same machine, you can see that switches and routers are very quickly going to poo themselves. (Oh, and it mangled the source address, so machines with nothing to do with this got hit by ICMP reply floods).
One, just one, MS-SQL server would be sufficient to bring down a Cisco 6509 router (not a cheap and nasty simple little router, this is a biggie).
So, a worm aimed at MS platforms that screws everything over for all internet users.
Nice. Not.
I checked my cable, it was a MOLE chewing it, the worm is trying to stop the MOLE!! IT IS THE MOLE THAt IS BAD!!! *gets attacked by mutated gopher*
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