sanmar
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posted on January 25, 2003 10:13:25 AM
Just heard on CNN Headline News of a new virus that is raising Hxxl on the internet & slowing down emails. It is similiar to the Red Alert of the past. I had trouble getting into MSN this morning. Don't know if that was the problem.
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computerboy
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posted on January 25, 2003 10:21:43 AM
Prodigy completely down, including website, email and personal web pages. Postal Service features down. Looks like this virus is a good one...
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NearTheSea
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posted on January 25, 2003 10:34:27 AM
computerboy-I have Prodigy (well now its ugh-SBC Yahoo, but still have the prodigy mail addy(s) ) and mine is up here on my 'main' computer, however, my I tried on my laptop (using dialup ) it won't recognize my username and password.
Though I set up my main computer to run on the cable internet we have, and still able to send and receive email with the prodigy addy without dialup... that might make the difference, don't know.
Are you using dialup on yours?
p*ssed me off it wouldn't connect on laptop...
I've also been getting A LOT more, last night and this AM of viruses, but Norton has stopped them.....
Yeah I heard this was a huge virus.
[email protected]
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tooltimes
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posted on January 25, 2003 10:46:05 AM
The worst seems to be over now as many sites that were down are back up now. I saw the sites of Bidville, ebay, Boomspeed, and Pongo go down and then come back up.
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paloma91
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posted on January 25, 2003 11:02:13 AM
I had an idea this morning something was going on. I received an empty email this morning. Empty sending, header and body and NO attachement. That only happens when a virus has been sent. THANK GOD I use Yahoo's email. I never got the bug!
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tooltimes
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posted on January 25, 2003 11:40:13 AM
The new attack is NOT a virus. It is only about 376 bytes of worm program that invades the memory on IBM servers and causes those servers to send out messages at a very high rate and that mimics a denial-of-service attack. It does mess up email programs tho.
The code instructs the server to go into an endless loop, continually sending out data to other computers, in effect performing a denial of service attack, BBC News Online technology reporter Alfred Hermida says.
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sanmar
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posted on January 25, 2003 12:08:14 PM
Really strange, I can't get into MSN, but I can get into Hotmail.com. Evidently they are on different servers. It has been 4 hours since I first tried, just tried again with no luck.
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carat01
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posted on January 25, 2003 01:49:03 PM
On MSN through cable on Long Island and have unable to access my email, have been trying different computers in the house and different ways to get there with no luck. Having no problems with anything but email but it's been over 11 hours which seems slow for MSN to have gotten a fix.
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CapYoda
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posted on January 25, 2003 03:10:01 PM
ack.
another worm unleashed by some guy with lots of times on his hand.
all I can say is, he/she should get a g/f, b/f to tie them up so they dont waste time with stuff like this.
i'm having trouble with hotmail too but it gets through after a few tries...
using outlook express though.
um... and I do notice a few sites are down.
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classicrock000
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posted on January 25, 2003 03:24:42 PM
cant they tell where its coming from so they can catch these people?
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tooltimes
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posted on January 25, 2003 04:12:21 PM
One of the news report said the worm was first discovered to be made by a hacker in China and he publicized how to make the worm. China has a somewhat different form of internet with limited gateways and the government tries to control it as much as possible so the worm could have been made to shut down the Chinese portion of the internet but was used all over the world. Just a pet theory. 
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tonimar1
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posted on January 26, 2003 10:21:38 PM
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,845164,00.asp
Would this be the virus you are talking about, its called .........Slammer hit the Internet hard Friday night and early Saturday morning, slowing Web traffic to a crawl globally as it generated billions of attacks, according to security response experts.
Check out the details from the site address I put on top.
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tomwiii
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posted on January 27, 2003 03:04:19 AM
???
mee ubb be bobo??
???
"What we have heah is a fail-ure to communicate!"
http://tinyurl.com/315v
[ edited by tomwiii on Jan 27, 2003 03:05 AM ]
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tooltimes
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posted on January 27, 2003 08:14:51 AM
A Wired Magazine website article said that Slammer could resurface Monday morning as thousands of corporate computer systems ar booted up that do not have the needed patches to fix the worm and those systems will spread the worm all over again.
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