danny7 opened this issue on Jan 26, 2003 ยท 12 posts
danny7 posted Sun, 26 January 2003 at 5:21 PM
I just tried to go to the websites of Curious Labs and DAZ-3D and they're gone. Did they move? Did they >gasp!< go out of business? Did they get gobbled up by the Millennium Dragon?
elgyfu posted Sun, 26 January 2003 at 5:23 PM
They are just temporarily out of order-see previous thread for details.
BeatYourSoul posted Sun, 26 January 2003 at 7:23 PM
Just think of the revenue that's being lost! Don't these guys have someone to fix their servers on the weekends?
pdxjims posted Sun, 26 January 2003 at 9:02 PM
A lot of servers are down this weekend. My buddy in Seattle spent 24 straight hours recovering from the virus, and he's still not done.
BeatYourSoul posted Sun, 26 January 2003 at 9:26 PM
Let us all proclaim how much we love Microsoft! [crickets] Hard to believe that most of the world is dependent upon their Swiss-cheese software...
whbos posted Sun, 26 January 2003 at 10:26 PM
It's been terrible all day. I had problems purchasing something from the Marketplace today. Best thing to do with all these viruses lately is to do backups of all your data including that extra large Runtime folder.
Poser 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Pro 2014, 11, 11 Pro
bikermouse posted Sun, 26 January 2003 at 10:29 PM
I just got through to DAZ to DL that toon fish. the DDOS seems to come and go. (suspicious timing though.)
hauksdottir posted Mon, 27 January 2003 at 1:29 AM
Bikermouse, I agree about the suspicious timing. It is likely that the SQL attack was a test of weaknesses, and once they were found it was easy to focus and attack those systems without safeguards. One thing I worry about... if I have a cookie on a site allowing it to verify data, and I'm on a site when it's servers are being probed, can the attackers also sniff my system? Carolly
Erlik posted Mon, 27 January 2003 at 2:22 AM
Carolly: http://www.zonelabs.com/ and download Zone Alarm. It's free, easy to set up and works well. Or you might want to download the Pro version which has things like a fuller e-mail quarantine. $39, IIRC.
-- erlik
Spit posted Mon, 27 January 2003 at 2:54 AM
Cookies are on your own system, Carolly, not the server.
Kelderek posted Mon, 27 January 2003 at 2:37 PM
A cookie does not allow access to your system, it only verifies who you are when visiting the site in question. And "who you are" is just a string of characters that has nothing to do with your computer or yourself really, they just identifies the cookie as such. Your browser sends the cookie to the server, and the server recognizes it, because it created it in the first place.
bikermouse posted Tue, 28 January 2003 at 12:46 AM
Hauksdottir, You may be thinking of scripts rather than cookies. - TJ