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SuperFly
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 Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 7:35 am Post subject: SQL Slammer virus |
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Anyone in Korea get hit with the SQL Slammer virus yesterday?
Our whole company (70 thousand people nationwide) went home at 2pm MST yesterday.
Also heard that SBC got hit as well...
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AbbeFaria
Joined: 17 May 2005
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 7:42 am Post subject: |
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Oh crap, I better run anti-virus.
Oh wait, what am I thinking, I'm on a Mac.
Sorry, I just can't help but giggle at a virus scare. Silly rabbit, viruses are for Windows.
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Giant
Joined: 14 May 2003
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Its only a matter of time before they start coming out for MAC and LINUX. |
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AbbeFaria
Joined: 17 May 2005
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 4:33 am Post subject: |
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| Giant wrote: |
| Its only a matter of time before they start coming out for MAC and LINUX. |
It's not as simple as a programmer just deciding one day to code a virus for a Mac. A Mac is tougher, sans virus protection, than any Windows PC with protection. Infecting a Mac or hacking it is much more difficult. One day, sure, maybe. All a hacker needs is enough time, but I've certianly got a helluva head start on them. |
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dbee
Joined: 29 Dec 2004
Location: korea
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 5:20 am Post subject: |
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Oh crap, I better run anti-virus.
Oh wait, what am I thinking, I'm on a Mac.
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... well the odds that you are running an SQL server are pretty low I'd imagine. I mean what do those things cost anyway ... around 5 or 6 grand ?
... the slammer virus was interesting when it hit a couple of months ago. It had the highest propogation rate seen on any virus so far, and also the highest infection rate. It was quite a work of art, if you could call it that.
... the attack vector it used was a gaping hole in the windows sql server that had been discovered some time beforehand but was never patched by MS until the proverbial s**t hit the fan.
No-one is ever going to run a mac server anything, so there's no problem there. The whole mac OSX system was put on the alert list by sans a while ago for it's numerous faults and trojan posibilities. The first time a whole operating system made the list. That hardly makes the mac the bastion that it's acolytes would like to think it is. |
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AbbeFaria
Joined: 17 May 2005
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 7:22 am Post subject: |
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| dbee wrote: |
| No-one is ever going to run a mac server anything, so there's no problem there. The whole mac OSX system was put on the alert list by sans a while ago for it's numerous faults and trojan posibilities. The first time a whole operating system made the list. That hardly makes the mac the bastion that it's acolytes would like to think it is. |
http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=02166 |
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dbee
Joined: 29 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 1:04 pm Post subject: |
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No-one is ever going to run a mac server anything, so there's no problem there. The whole mac OSX system was put on the alert list by sans a while ago for it's numerous faults and trojan posibilities. The first time a whole operating system made the list. That hardly makes the mac the bastion that it's acolytes would like to think it is.
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http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=02166
Unless otherwise noted, this article is copyright 1997 Joakim Jardenberg and Christine Pamp,
published in TidBITS 378, copyright 1997 TidBITS.
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WTF !!!!! |
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Pangit
Joined: 02 Sep 2004
Location: Puet mo.
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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| AbbeFaria wrote: |
| I bought a Mac, and I'm a winner. |
Good work. 'Cause, you know, anybody and their dog can have a Mac. Oh, you want a prize? Sorry, we don't have one for jackasses.
Back to the real point:
Is anyone here running SQL? Oh, and not just any SQL, either. The very specific varieties of MSSQL server 2000 or MSDE SQL that this virus targets.
Nope, didn't think so. |
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muggie2dammit
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Location: Ilsan, Korea
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| Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2005 4:55 am Post subject: |
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| Pangit wrote: |
| AbbeFaria wrote: |
| I bought a Mac, and I'm a winner. |
Good work. 'Cause, you know, anybody and their dog can have a Mac. Oh, you want a prize? Sorry, we don't have one for jackasses.
Back to the real point:
Is anyone here running SQL? Oh, and not just any SQL, either. The very specific varieties of MSSQL server 2000 or MSDE SQL that this virus targets.
Nope, didn't think so. |
I had one version of MSDE SQL, but I never used it so i uninstalled it. Maybe a good thing.
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Giant
Joined: 14 May 2003
Location: South Korea
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Actually, I am running MSSQL in my office, but its not exposed to the 'outside'.
So I am sure I am safe. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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| AbbeFaria wrote: |
| Giant wrote: |
| Its only a matter of time before they start coming out for MAC and LINUX. |
It's not as simple as a programmer just deciding one day to code a virus for a Mac. A Mac is tougher, sans virus protection, than any Windows PC with protection. Infecting a Mac or hacking it is much more difficult. One day, sure, maybe. All a hacker needs is enough time, but I've certianly got a helluva head start on them. |
"Mac users have, to some extent, been lulled into thinking they don't need to be protected"
http://www.macworld.com/news/2001/08/06/hacker/
There are Mac viruses. One of the reasons they don't spread as much is that there are fewer Macs to be infected, and fewer viruses to infect them. Virus writers are well aware of this, thus they aren't as inclined to write viruses for Macs. Think about it. What's more prestigious, infecting 20 000 Macs or 1 000 000 Windows based systems? |
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