August 12, 2003

Joe Jay vs. the Volcano Bug*

It seems Jay is fighting a nasty bug. No, nothing causing any physical ailments, because this one seems to be some nasty computer virus he most likely caught from his dad. Jay, please do not send me any email for awhile.

It does make me happy that I did just update my McAfee, but maybe I need to do that reboot now to install those new defs and then do a system scan. Jeez, who in the Hell thinks it is so much fun to cause so much havoc by creating those damn things. My little head up under this tin-foil lined hat thinks it is likely all those jerks who make and sell virus protection programs, or that were fired from such companies, but I could be wrong. It could be a bunch of those dweebs who are too afraid to troll comments, or hack porno passwords, or send thousands of SPAM messages from remote holes in the ground ... who have nothing worthwhile to offer humanity. You know the sort.

*I selected this particular movie title to cut all to pieces because as I watched such movie, I had this recurring thought: When is all this insanity finally going to end?

Posted by Tiger at August 12, 2003 06:25 PM
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Actually, it's that we both happened to get it, along with zillions of other people, like Acidman for instance. It's one of those things that comes in through a port scan deal rather than by e-mail. Just being online, without the right firewall/port blockage, and without having installed the appropriate Windows updates (when the updates are released before the problems they fix are exploited), is begging to get it.

My friend Bob will be able to laugh at my lack of firewall software.

Posted by: Jay Solo at August 12, 2003 07:21 PM

Perhaps this explains the port scan my firewall blocked yesterday? It came from 64.228.35.12, which was traced to somewhere in Toronto...

Oh, and I have a (sweeping hand motion) "brain cloud"...

Posted by: Susie at August 12, 2003 08:22 PM

How do you get port scans? Is that something associated with cable/DSL connections? Just wondered, as I seem to have no warnings from my firewall program at all. By the way, I swept my whole system and no viruses. Ad-Aware found 33 data-miners, but that is not unusual and was actually a pretty low amount considering how long it had been since I had run the program.

Posted by: Tiger at August 12, 2003 09:22 PM