This stupid MyDoom worm is slowing things down for me like you wouldn’t believe, and it’s causing e-mail server admins to block anything remotely looking like the virus. I’ve been trying to communicate with a tech support contact of mine who’s working from home and using her Yahoo! account. They just blocked my e-mail for “550 Administrative prohibition” — whatever the hell that means.
Now there’s a variant of it going around, and SCO is offering a reward for the capture of the SOB who created this. Meanwhile, there are jackasses who are cheering the creation of this little bastard.
This thing is pummeling my servers. They’re all sending the packets to the bit bucket, but it’s still unwanted traffic that has to be looked out. UtterlyBoring.com was down for a while this morning because the server its on was getting pummeled with e-mail requests with the virus. And for all of SCO’s faults, is this worth it? I’m not fond at all of what SCO is doing to the open-source community, but is taken down the Internet’s e-mail system as a whole a proper revenge? Hell no. My servers are running Linux or Windows 2003 — two great OSes, but they’re getting beat up, despite having nothing to do with SCO. Is that fair? No way.
SCO deserves what they get, but the rest of us don’t.
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No doubt. What a pain in the ass this is. I’m guessing with all the legit domains on the emails sent out by the worm a lot of people are getting fooled. The real crap is that it seems to be sending out emails from other peoples machines with my domain on them, and that’s probably why your emails are getting blocked. I’m sure spamcop is having a lot of fun with this too.
Me too. When I first got complaints about my email address in the from field I wasted a good three hours convincing myself that the mail could not have come from my server (logs, mail archives, vulnerability scans). I am on the verge of hitting the next person who mentions windblows and security in the same sentence without a negative jibe.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who did that. I know I spent too many hours making absolutely sure it wasn’t anything in my control. Meanwhile, useful projects weren’t getting done.
Gimme a gun, damnit.
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