Subaru Crew - Meet The Members II

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  • locke2clocke2c Member Posts: 5,038
    hey I'll take late! thank you, thank you.

    had dinner with my dad last night, celebrating with friends on friday. w00t!

    -Colin
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    @(*$&#@ nachi.worm virus.

    I had lunch at 8pm yesterday, after fixing these.

    Anyone else get hit? My PC was OK, but I have 138 users, and our SMS updates weren't working properly for many of them.

    -juice
  • subearusubearu Member Posts: 3,613
    No problems here at work or at home, just a bit slow on the ol' internet from the increased port traffic.

    My Linksys firewall/router is keeping busy I suppose. I'm betting one of my neighbors has it.

    -Brian
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Figures, too, the guy in charge of SMS is on vacation. We're cleaning up his mess, basically.

    -juice
  • twrxtwrx Member Posts: 647
    Well it shut us down here at the high school I teach at. The assistant principal went on the intercom to tell us that the building net was being shut off completly until the worm was cleaned off the computers in the business lab etc. His comment to me as I passed his office was "don't even say it". OK so I am a zealot.
    Needless to say my macs were not affected. I have read several articles on zdnet that all deny the possiblity that the Blaster caused last week's power failure. However I did find an articles saying that the Air Canada checkin shut down was a result. Also a virus shut down signals for the CSX train lines. In January a nuclear powerplant in Ohio (on the same utility company that is being blamed for last week's failure) was shut down by the Slammer worm.

    The terrorism aspect worries me. Windows is too easy to take down. What if the power grid was crashed by the worm? The implications are frightening. I've heard the argument before that mac, UNIX and linux are not popular enough for worm writers. Even if that is the case at the present time if Window remains the home/desktop system of choice then really secure network uses on *nix systems should not be a large enough chunk of the market to bring out too many hacker nuts.
     In the meantime I will enjoy OS X.
    twrx
  • kenskens Member Posts: 5,869
    The mblast.exe worm did hit a significant number of folks here at work. Luckily, I wasn't one of them!

    Ken
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    I guess many Subaru owners were safe, given the popularity of Macs among us...

    -juice
  • hypovhypov Member Posts: 3,068
    Yup, my Mac was safe :) but the internet was so clogged up that my throughput was only ~20kbps vs 1.5mbps that I should be getting :(

    -Dave
  • fibber2fibber2 Member Posts: 3,786
    plus we are still trying to recover from the power outage. Heavily computer controlled high vacuum equipment can take days to get back to stability.

    Oh, well - going to miss the chat tonight. If I can get out of here, we are planning a long weekend up in Maine.

    Steve
  • paisanpaisan Member Posts: 21,181
    Patching away last night at work. Tonight they will do a push to catch any we didn't hit. So I'll have to manually do the night trader's workstations or else they will get a "your workstation is shutting down in 2 min" msg in the middle of trading.

    -mike
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Careful, it was our "push" that failed. It missed about 1/3rd of the PCs!

    -juice (patching 4 PCs simulatneously right now)
  • locke2clocke2c Member Posts: 5,038
    since you guys brought it up, my team had all 200 of our servers patched 3 weeks ago. :)

    many others in our company were unprepared, though.

    -Colin
  • paisanpaisan Member Posts: 21,181
    It was the desktops that we had to take care of. This is a new patch as well, and new DAT file.

    -mike
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Ours were SUPPOSED to be patched, but like I said, the SMS jobs failed. Ugh.

    Hey, the chat is kicking me out, server errors? Anyone else able to get in?

    -juice
  • twrxtwrx Member Posts: 647
  • xccoachlouxccoachlou Member Posts: 245
    I got booted from chat and can't get back in despite even switching browsers... Do I have B.O.? :(

    - Lou
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    nachi.worm virus hit Edmunds.com? ;-)

    Lou: yes, but that's not why the server went down.

    -juice
  • dcm61dcm61 Member Posts: 1,567
    It was a nice chat while it lasted. ;-)

    DaveM
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    All 2 seconds of it! :o)

    -juice
  • #noname#noname Member Posts: 58
  • #noname#noname Member Posts: 58
    this has gotta have worm or virus written all over it, thanks Billy G. you doofus
  • paisanpaisan Member Posts: 21,181
    -mike
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Whoa, two anonymous posts, talk about bizarre.

    Notice they say "worm by" and then no name follows!

    OK, Twilight Zone!

    -juice
  • dcm61dcm61 Member Posts: 1,567
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Well, cool chat after all! :-)

    Thanks to Mod_Bob for fixing that PDQ.

    -juice
  • c_hunterc_hunter Member Posts: 4,487
    Our entire network was shut down for 2 days this week. My Mac and UNIX/Linux boxes were not affected, except for the fact that we did not have network access! Really steams me that we lost so much productivity because of the Windows machines. Wish we could put them on a separate network fenced off from the rest of us!

    Now, I'm just getting 10-15 junk mails a day from the worm. I have set my mail client to forward them all to Microsoft....

    Speaking of which, Microsoft's web site is now being served from Linux boxes at Akamai. How ironic.....

    Craig
  • locke2clocke2c Member Posts: 5,038
    Our network never went down. Never even thought about it.

    Your IT guys have teh suck. ;-)

    -Colin
  • subearusubearu Member Posts: 3,613
    Microsoft is running Microsoft-IIS/6.0 on Linux according to http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.microsoft.com and there is a blurb about why/when they did that at http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2003/08/17/wwwmicrosoftcom_runs- - _linux_up_to_a_point_.html

    The short is DNS is sending us to Akamai, which is running Linux (and providing caching), but the HTTP header from microsoft also appears in the request, hence the IIS/6.0 part.

    -Brian
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Forwarding them to MS, LOL!

    -juice
  • Karen_SKaren_S Member Posts: 5,092
    Re: anonymous posts - Seems to be happening throughout the site. At this time, waiting for JohnV to do his magic and find out what's happening.
  • lucien2lucien2 Member Posts: 2,984
    ...or is that funnAy?
  • locke2clocke2c Member Posts: 5,038
    :)

    -Colin
  • hondafriekhondafriek Member Posts: 2,984
    A very belated Happy Birthday.

      Cheers Pat.
  • sube555lgtsube555lgt Member Posts: 78
    Been over on NASIOC and Cobb's WRX Forum for a while. RSholland and a couple others recommended this place, figured I'd drop in. You're most likely to find me in areas dealing with product development. I think I will try to hit up the weekly chats too.
  • lucien2lucien2 Member Posts: 2,984
  • sube555lgtsube555lgt Member Posts: 78
    Thanks lucien2! The name looks familiar, from NASIOC?
  • lucien2lucien2 Member Posts: 2,984
    I registered before I understood how screennames really function. But once I was lucien2 (because, incredibly, "lucien" was taken) I just ran with it.
  • locke2clocke2c Member Posts: 5,038
    I'm "ColinL" over there and on most forums besides here.

    Good to have ya!

    -Colin
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Welcome to the Edmunds.com Subaru Crew.

    Do you work at SoA HQ? What type of position? What year Legacy do you drive?

    -juice ('98 Forester, '02 Legacy)
  • bluesubiebluesubie Member Posts: 3,497
    Yeah, what DO you do anyway? Top Secret?
    You're the one that did the mega product line recommendation, right?

    Definitely check out Subaru Suggestions here. SoA gathers info from there for Product Planning. There's also an Subaru R&D lurker that pops in from time to time. :-)

    -Dennis
  • rshollandrsholland Member Posts: 19,788
    I know what he does, but I'll let him tell ya, if he so desires. :)

    Bob
  • kenskens Member Posts: 5,869
    Sube555 -- Hey, that user ID looks familiar from NASIOC.

    Welcome!

    Ken
  • subaru_teamsubaru_team Member Posts: 1,676
    I'm sure you'll enjoy our chats! We've been gathering suggestions for future models on our "Suggestions" board, so feel free to add onto the list. Just try to be specific about what model you are talking about.

    Patti
  • subaru_teamsubaru_team Member Posts: 1,676
    Are you a Leo or a Virgo? I celebrated mine last Sunday while on vacation. I can't find your post when you indicated your date?

    Hope it was a good one!

    Patti
  • rshollandrsholland Member Posts: 19,788
    Welcome back! I suspect you'll be hearing plenty from Seth. :)

    Bob
  • hypovhypov Member Posts: 3,068
    from vacation, Patti
    and belated Birthday wishes to you too :)

    -Dave
  • locke2clocke2c Member Posts: 5,038
    There wasn't one... just a link to another place 'throwing a party' for me. :)

    It was 8/19. 28! getting up there.

    -Colin
  • sube555lgtsube555lgt Member Posts: 78
    Hey everyone, been a little busy with that top secret job. ;) (I hate this no PHP deal, I hope I get used to it. I'll use it anyways for those in the know.)

    Back in school (college that is), but that doesn't mean I am not doing any less to serve the Subaru community. Great class setup, looking forward to finishing the brief for those who know what I am talking about. We're up to 15-20 pages excluding appendixes and other detailed materials. I'll have as much info as I can post possible when it's finished, but beware, the final draft will likely include around 50 or more pages. (Yes those eyes are bugging out!) It should be a good read.

    I am looking forward to getting active over here, though there is only so much time in a day. If someone sees a topic that may be interesting to me and I don't seem to catch it, PM me on NASIOC or Cobb's WRXForum. I'll be glad to ablige. Otherwise, I generally spend most of my forum-mongering minutes and hours over on those two boards.

    I must sound like such a N00b. :D
  • lucien2lucien2 Member Posts: 2,984
    the chat room is open! :-D
  • sube555lgtsube555lgt Member Posts: 78
    No it's not you crazy little Subaru nut!
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