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"For all you monkeys with NTL broadband..."

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!

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!

phi11ip wrote:
> 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!

I'm getting that..

Ho hum.

Why did I bother quoting all that..

You're not a monkey, you're an iguana!

So you're getting all crappy connections, I was reading about that worm yesterday, it just targets servers and p|sses about with them so that they run really slow...

This is like the only site that runs properly, not even Google works!

Google runs okay for me, lots of links don't seem to load properly. If they do, very slowly..

I'm not actually too bothered, just slightly annoying.

I could be a monkey if I wanted to be.

Mine is running really slow too. The pages usually open in about 2 seconds on my connection but they're taking a bit longer now. Should be thankful though not having to put up with that damn 56K!

I thought it was a bit slow and completely forgot about that virus, so I tried Kazaa, and it was downloading something at 1.50 whearas it's usually above 45!

I lost my internet yesterday (BTOpenworld) when the entire BT network (including the internal office network) across the country went down.

It gave my dad something to do in his work. For once.

Because of this worm??

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*

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.