Ok where do I begin! What a day what a day what a day! Some you know I run a web site for my company that supports about 50-60 other sites around the world. i.e. if we go down they go down, so that is baaadddd news. At about 9:55a today we went down. No problem I thought I'll just restart the server, that happens every once in a while. I restart and everthing comes back to life, we be happy! ummmm wait a minute 15 minutes later blamo everything is dead again! ok restart again... 15 minutes and blam...
WTF
Ok read the net install the latest updates to NT4, the roll up security patch from M$ and restart... this will fix it... 15 mins pop! uggg! ok read read read read... gotta love the old deja news that is now google groups. Install the exception viewer, ok done restart and watch... 15 mins pop. Ok turn off all indexing restart, 15 mins pop. ... yada yada yada... you get the idea.
Shoot ahead 5 hours it's now 4p have I been at this all day! Damn it! Ok there is a place next door that does hosting maybe they know whats up... little walk down the hall, little explanation, look of sheer disbelief as they finish my sentences! huh same problem your just started 2 hours ago! ughhh
WTF.
Wait your ISP is having it too! oh man this is getting out of hand.
For all of you people that have no idea what I'm talking about we now know 4 seperate servers that are completly independant from each other all having the same symptoms. All have started today and on one of the machines(that is running newer software) there is a message...
"Hello! Welcome to http://www.worm.com! Hacked by Chinese!"
ahhh believe it or not a feeling of relief now washes over me. It's not really just me. I have not been a complete retard... I quickly call my service provider and get the top man there. He informs me this worm is running wild on the net right now and sends me the patch. Patch installed, restart the machine, it has been going for 28 minutes as I write this now.
Breathe in breathe out, this is what they pay IT people for right, to figure this stuff out... I had visions of spending the night here before... now it's time to go home soon, what a day... it feels like I worked about 20 hours today! ughh damn worm writers...
I can't let you go without a small little gem I picked up before all this started...
Alot of you have DVD players now, I bet when you went to the store to buy that favorite movie and found out it was not on DVD you said WTF well... you may want to have a look here. They have stuff that no one has... now I'm not saying do something illegal here but hey information is free, right? The newest DVDs Jurassic Park III yes the one that came out in the theaters 2 days ago and Final Fantasy which is 2 whole weeks old, and my fav the Indiana Jones Trilogy, yep it ain't out yet, but hey information is free, right? Maybe in the days to come I'll post some other good DVD sites there are a bunch!
thats all for now... after I pick up all my hair I'm going home. cya i.am.sam
