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Conficker worm set to strike on April 1st?

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

What is it?
The Downadup worm (a.k.a. ‘Conficker’ or ‘Net-worm.Win32.Kido’) exploits the MS08-067 vulnerability in the Windows Server Service.
Currently the worm does not harm infected computers, but it has the capacity to cause considerable damage at a later time. Once infected, the affected computer generates hundreds of random web addresses and attempts to contact them daily […]

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If your blog or website suddenly slowed to a crawl …

Friday, March 20, 2009

It’s probably due to some changes your system admin made to the server without your knowledge.
In my case, switching to ‘php5′ solved the problem.
PHP ver4 has been around for years (latest stable version is php 4.4.9) - and most web hosts are using php4 by default.
PHP ver5 was introduced way back in July 2004 […]

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What is this “NonExistentShit”??

Monday, January 12, 2009

In the past few days, I’ve been getting many 404 email alerts sent by my 404 script:
Date: 10-01-2009 [06:29:29]
User requested for: http://www.easybiztools.com/nonexistenshit was not found !
User Details:
IP addr:94.76.208.8
Browser:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5
Referred by: n/a

If you check your server logs, you might find someone probing for the following files:
/nonexistentshit
/bin/msgimport
/mail/bin/msgimport
/rc/bin/msgimport
/webmail/bin/msgimport
/roundcube/bin/msgimport
That’s someone […]

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