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Friday, 15/03/2003 12:53 a.m.
It's been a loooong looooong time since the last time i wrote on ORG. Weird? Not so. I wrote lots of stuffs that i actually
intended for ORG, but later didn't have the heart to post it online. Don't ask me why, I just didn't feel like posting what
i already wrote on my machine. Maybe I was feeling a little sick, or maybe it was because of the sky, or maybe because
i had too much soya bean milk, whatever it was that made me what i did or didn't do for that matter, I knew for sure that i had no control over it.
Fortunately today, i felt like breaking the curse, and this is what i had to say on ORG. I'll keep my fingers crossed for future postings. In the mean time, i'll try to pray more often -- for blessings. :-)
Recently I've been going through all my old stuffs in the store room as well as those cluttering my writing desk for how long only god knows. It was a helluva reminiscing session, i must admit. Pictures of ex-schoolmates and the things that i've done for the past five years or so, really made me laugh. How immature i was, and how much i've done to survive school days. Looking back now, i realized that i've grown substantially. I guess it's college life that has actually changed my life the most. College allowed me to explore countless areas of interests, and also the opportunity to explore new paradigms and philosophies. Many times, my own set of beliefs were challenged to the max, but with a little faith that i'll pull through fine, i made it across fiery fire almost unscathed many times. But everytime i prevail over an ordeal, i always return from the battle field with lessons i couldn't get anywhere else other than actually engaging myself in the ordeals. To compare, the person i am now is so much different from the days when i was in secondary school. Immature, shallow, and incompetent were my not-so-proud
qualities then. But now, i am ready to take on so many things that even i impress myself sometimes. Seeking knowledge is my highest priority, but sometimes i feel i'm taking in too much than i can absorb, resulting in what i like to think as my own version of "buffer overflow" -- Memory Buffer Overflow (MBO). Although this is no security vulnerability, i am constantly looking for ways to counter the problem. Ginko Biloba maybe?
One more matter i'd like to discuss openly. Though i must forewarn, this is not for Mr. Chris Pirillo's thousands or millions of fans out there. Recently, and very recently, I believe that i am slowly (and very slowly) turning into an Anti-Pirillo individual. But why? you ask. Answer: I just don't know why. It's like the chicken and egg problem, it just happens, and nobody knows why. I, in shorter terms, begin to hate him terribly much for his stupid, senseless, mindless, inappropriate, disgusting, and LAME antics. I mean, why is he doing all the stupid acts that he does everytime on the show? Being a true geek is not like that. He's a geek that's giving all geeks a really bad name. Look at Patrick Norton. Cool person, simple as that. A true geek, silent but powerful and always ready to attack technology like a tiger on a pouncing position. That's my kind of a geek. I'd say he's my tech icon as far as technology is concerned. Talk only when necessary without all the cheesy stuffs. That's the true nature of being in the tech industry. Chris Pirillo is, i would say, a shallow piece of mutha phuckin piece of garbage. Even Michaela Pereira from Tech Live despises him. What a shame. Pirillo has got to reshape his attitudes before it's all too LATE!
I guess i've rambled enough and it's time for me to go. But before i do that, here's a piece of security alert i picked out from a security site. Good info for home users running Win 9X/NT/2000/XP.
---[ SECURITY ALERT ]---
A new worm on the Internet is targeting computers running Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system, using easy-to-guess passwords to try to access administrator accounts, according to alerts posted by antivirus companies.
The worm, W32/Deloder-A, appeared yesterday and is considered a low risk for infection, according to an alert posted by F-Secure Corp. in Helsinki, Finland. Deloder is believed to have originated in China, F-Secure said.
The worm attempts to connect to other computers on a network through TCP Port 445, randomly generating IP addresses to locate vulnerable machines. Port 445 is used to access shared files on Windows machines via the Server Message Block protocol.
When a vulnerable Windows machine is located, the worm attempts to log onto the machine's administrator account by trying 50 likely passwords such as "admin," "password," "12345" and "administrator," F-Secure said. If the worm succeeds in breaking the administrator account password, it places copies of a backdoor program called inst.exe in several locations on the infected machine.
The worm also modifies the machine's registry to run another copy of itself, DVLDR32.EXE, according to advisories from F-Secure, Sophos PLC and Symantec Corp.
Machines running Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, ME and XP are vulnerable to attack by Deloder, Symantec said.
No infections from Deloder have been reported, and most firewalls block access to Port 445. Still, many home computers without firewalls may be vulnerable to the new worm. As of this morning, most antivirus companies had posted updated virus definitions to detect the Deloder worm, as well as utilities to remove the worm from infected machines.
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