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Was MacRumors Down?

MacFan25

MacFan25

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Was it just my browser, or was MacRumors down this morning? I tried to get on Macrumors on Safari and AOL, but for some reason, the site wouldn't come up.
 
I was going to ask that too, but you beat me to it. I thought the DSL in my office was messing up again. I couldn't access macrumors for the first month my DSL service was active. Glad it's back up!
 
I talked to arn earlier today...

there's a bug virus going around...affected the site...

it's affecting internet servers all over the world actually...been in the news...heh...
 
yep a bug virus. trippy.


more info...

http://www.warp2search.net/article.php?sid=10080&mode=&order=0




most of the boards i frequent were not loading. i was frekin out man. ive never seen this happen before... i mean when i usually have trouble getting internet access its because of my service but hell ... some of these other sites i went to were comming up... like cnn, foxnews... etc. etc. but all the forum sites were not. i thought the aliens were coming to get us all!

lol
 
While I'd love to lie this at M$'s feet - they did, aparently, put out a patch 6 months to a year ago (depending on which report you read) and enough idiot MCSE's didn't bother to install it! :rolleyes:
 
damn infection! this was a hell of a worm- stayed in RAM the whole time. tricky, tricky. thank god i'm back, i've been pestering people all night long... the chat room did come alive for a while tho (hi all :))

pnw
 
Originally posted by Dont Hurt Me
I thought this thing only was only hitting window machines/servers so that would mean that Mac- - - - - - is not running Macs! WHAT:)
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MacRumors is hosted on a Linux box.

arn
 
Originally posted by eric_n_dfw
While I'd love to lie this at M$'s feet - they did, aparently, put out a patch 6 months to a year ago (depending on which report you read) and enough idiot MCSE's didn't bother to install it! :rolleyes:
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The problem can be traced back to m$. Even though they released a patch for it, many IT people are reluctant to install even security patches because of the problems they can cause with their servers. It's given software might have bugs, but m$ should check and double-check, and even triple-check to make sure that their patches work, and don't do more bad than good. It's because of previous buggy patches from m$ that IT guys are hesitant to install these things...
 
Originally posted by eric_n_dfw
While I'd love to lie this at M$'s feet - they did, aparently, put out a patch 6 months to a year ago (depending on which report you read) and enough idiot MCSE's didn't bother to install it! :rolleyes:
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What's worse. Those people put those SQL Servers up available over the internet. SQL Servers are meant to be a BACK END server. An optimal SQL Server configuration would be:

Internet -> Firewall -> LAN -> Firewall -> SQL Server

I was up all night and was shocked Apple Store was affected by this. Their site was down for the majority of the night. Makes me wonder if they are using Microsoft SQL Servers. :eek:

I personally use Microsoft SQL Server, because it IS the best bang for the buck enterprise solution. Luckily, I wasn't affected one bit by the attacks.

This is similar to the Code Red attacks. Patches were available months before the attacks, yet there are idiot admins.
 
Originally posted by krossfyter
or some korens?
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Not a nice thing to say...

Koreans happen to have the greatest percentage of internet users worldwide but look, America and many other countries have a leser amount of hackers but they're more malicious.

And I'm not all korean but i find this very offensive.

And it was a worm :(
 
I was up all night and was shocked Apple Store was affected by this.

I believe that this bug slowed internet traffic in general. If a site is already busy, the extra draw from the bug might make a site inconsistantly available.
 
Originally posted by Sedulous
I was up all night and was shocked Apple Store was affected by this.

I believe that this bug slowed internet traffic in general. If a site is already busy, the extra draw from the bug might make a site inconsistantly available.
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That's not a good thing. I'm sure that Microsoft.com took as much abuse, if not MUCH more, yet it was up the entire night and it did not receive any performance hit. Engineering the network for speed and response is important. Rejecting traffic for unnecessary ports are important; apparently, Apple did not do this.

It may be very well that Apple is using Microsoft SQL Server, because if the worm hit inside the corporate walls, it runs amok amongst its own network, thus creating DDoS.

That sucked bad for Apple. Seeping below 99.97% uptime. Three nines... not so good.
 
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