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Geek Culture / virus hits SCO pretty bad

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Jeku
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Posted: 2nd Feb 2004 00:05
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Anyone try http://www.sco.com/ today? Looks like the virus was successful.

There's strangeness occurring on these forums, too, I was the first to post in the general chat for almost two hours--- is there a connection?

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lagmaster
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Posted: 2nd Feb 2004 00:25
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looks like sco nulled the nameservers for a while.

if they disable the nameservers the server wont be hit.

smart move by them

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spooky
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The 'strangeness' on these forums has been going on for a couple of weeks now and is getting rather annoying. On at least half a dozen occasions (including tonight) the forums have been unusable for a couple hours at a time usually late at night. You can get to main forum page where you see only one or two people logged in but you can't got any further. When Rich gets back from his hols he should be made aware of this me thinks.

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newbi 2 basic
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Posted: 2nd Feb 2004 00:56
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not had any problems here with these forums
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Dazzag
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Yeah, has been slow/ un-usable a few times in the last couple of weeks. Normally around midnight for about half an hour.

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Jimmy
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Posted: 2nd Feb 2004 01:23
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kinda scary.. I live about 2 miles from sco

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Yes, I do wonder what's wrong with these forums... and possibly this whole site!

Around midnight, sometimes the only part that wants to load is the navigation bar. No other part of the header seems to load however (??), and the rest remains gray.

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Elleomea
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Posted: 2nd Feb 2004 01:28 Edited at: 2nd Feb 2004 01:29
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Quote: " looks like sco nulled the nameservers for a while.

if they disable the nameservers the server wont be hit.

smart move by them "


Yes... so instead of their site being unavailable due to a DDoS attack, it's unavailable voluntarily... I'm sure SCO's potential customers (*snigger*) wishing to view their site will appreciate the difference.
Not that it really matters, SCO don't need a website, since the only business they go in for now is litigation .

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Kangaroo2 BETA2
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"Around midnight, sometimes the only part that wants to load is the navigation bar. No other part of the header seems to load however (??), and the rest remains gray."

Yes this happenned to me for about an hour tonight. I thought it was my PC so I restarted, but it still happenned. Then as quickly as it happenned, it stopped happenning

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Jeku
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Posted: 2nd Feb 2004 01:55
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@Jimmy - If you see a fighter jet in your area with a huge portrait of the Linux penguin on it, be prepared to take cover!


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AlecM
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Jimmy- Its your responsability to blow up SCO.

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Jimmy
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you send me some explosives and a few items with your fingerprints on them then I will.

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Many explosives carry chemical traces used to identify the origin of the explosive. Best to make your own.
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IanM
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Posted: 2nd Feb 2004 19:58
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Let's not go any further in that direction though ...

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Pincho Paxton
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Dunno about Midnight, but it happens here in England all the time. The site is being dumb-assed if you ask me. Those spammers are also doing something to the site...where are these people coming from?

Pincho.

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Dr OcCuLt
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Posted: 3rd Feb 2004 00:18 Edited at: 3rd Feb 2004 00:48
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hang on the virus was ment hit SCO and M$ at the same time why are all M$ sites runing in a happy maner.

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Jimmy
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Posted: 3rd Feb 2004 00:33
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because it's a fake virus. sent an email to the sco admin with the simple message "BANG!"

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Jeku
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Posted: 3rd Feb 2004 00:40
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@Dr - The virus is set to hit M$ tomorrow (Tuesday), two days after SCO...

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