A day in the life of a Pyro.

pretty much… you rock

S. Ussher 04/27/2005

Update: A reply from Symantec’s webmaster claims”it is a caching issue with Akamai,
and is being resolved.”

It appears Symantec, one of the leading computer security companies, has possibly been hacked.

I went to the main symantec.com site, looking for info about Norton Utilities for my family’s windows machine. (Which BTW appears they only ship bundled with a bunch of other stuff as System Works now.) So I clicked on “Products and Services.”

Main Symantec Page:

Products and Services:

I chose System Works from the menu:

Which is where the first odd thing happened. All I got was this page full of broken images, so I tried to click on “Buy Now”:

This page actually looked more like it should, so I clicked on compare:

And up came this lovely pop-up! Something’s not right here:

So I can only come to the conclusion that they were either hacked, or they really need to get a new web staff???

Dear God,

Why must there be so many assholes in this world?

Amen

A new computer worm is out and about. Luckily, as with most, mac users are immune. However, I thought this was humorous enough to post.

It seems that the worm Bropia.F is spreading itself via MSN messenger pretending to be some sort of scandalous image. Common names for the file are: Bedroom-thongs.pif, Hot.pif, Naked_drunk.pir, Underware.Pif, LOL.scr, New_webcam.pif, RoFL.pif, and Webcm.pif.

Users receive the following humorous image of a “hot chick”en with a bit of a tan.

Symantec rated this variant as high on damage and medium on distribution in the wild. The worm sends itself to all of the contacts in an infected users buddy list.

Bropia.F is a regular party animal, and it brings friends. It also Drops the Rbot-VH network worm and backdoor trojan horse, allowing hackers to take remote control of computers having been infected, capturing keystrokes and screenshots. A plethora of credit card and identity theft opportunities are available, heck it even lets them capture webcam footage. Also along for the ride is agabot.ajc which can perform a DDos attack on certain services.

Bropia.F hides behind the guise of a humorous photo, but it’s no laughing matter. The file size for Bropia.F is about 184 KB, and it affects Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, and XP.

Yet another reminder to keep you computer up to date, not to open unsolicited attachments (even from people you know), and better yet… GET A MAC!

Roger Rabbit’s Cartoon Spin: a wild ride through the back alleys of toontown! The only ride with a PG sense of humour in the G rated world of Disneyland, you are zany, wild, and a little bit of a loose screw. Energetic and colorful, you go at full speed, even though your taxi-car vehicles actually have four flat tires! Despite your older humor, you are a kid at heart and kids most relate to your cartoony world and like you the best. You’ve been known to make the adults a little queasy and a little bit dizzy. You leave your visitors dazed, a little confused, but more often, extremely amused. You take us to the places we’d never see in a ride featuring the straight-laced Mickey, but somehow you’re still all Disney.

What Disneyland attraction are you?
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