OrionM31 Posted January 25, 2003 Report Share Posted January 25, 2003 Maybe someone was opening a new store in the area. During my stay in May in GZ I heard someone set off a string of firecrackers. (I am of course refering to the ones that look like the wreath you put on your door during christmas) I told my wife, "It's not new years? What's going on?" She said, "New store open." <sigh> Wake me up at 8 o'clock in the morning. Phil Link to comment
owenkrout Posted January 25, 2003 Report Share Posted January 25, 2003 No, no. This is way beyond that! I am so used to the new store, new construction, etc. ect. fireworks that I don't even pay attention anymore. BTW, I was wrong in my guess. There is a worldwide attack on the internet going on today. If you can log on you can find details on CNN:http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/01/2...k.ap/index.html Link to comment
Mick Posted January 25, 2003 Report Share Posted January 25, 2003 Whatever the source of the problem, I couldn't log on to anything until around 6pm China time. Even then, things were a bit slow. As to the fireworks, haven't heard any down here yet. Owen, maybe they stopped so abruptly because "Little Festival" was getting too big. Link to comment
Guest enight Posted January 25, 2003 Report Share Posted January 25, 2003 No, no. This is way beyond that! I am so used to the new store, new construction, etc. ect. fireworks that I don't even pay attention anymore. BTW, I was wrong in my guess. There is a worldwide attack on the internet going on today. If you can log on you can find details on CNN:http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/01/2...k.ap/index.htmlOwen, the firecrackers might for a new couple... especially it's weekend, many new couples would choose weekends for their wedding days. about the internet attack... on PC forum, they said South Korea was attacked on 14:30 too. Link to comment
owenkrout Posted January 25, 2003 Report Share Posted January 25, 2003 No, I am familiar with all these things. I am not talking about that level of activity. This is city wide, or at least our District and BIG stuff as well as the constant strings of little stuff. At any rate, it has stopped now except for an occasional random bang. The kids out of school had been setting off little stuff all day. This could be some local festival also. China is a big country and there are variences in local customs. Shenyang is the old original seat of the Manchurian Dynasty, so it could have something to do with that also. Link to comment
Guest enight Posted January 25, 2003 Report Share Posted January 25, 2003 No, I am familiar with all these things. I am not talking about that level of activity. This is city wide, or at least our District and BIG stuff as well as the constant strings of little stuff. At any rate, it has stopped now except for an occasional random bang. The kids out of school had been setting off little stuff all day. This could be some local festival also. China is a big country and there are variences in local customs. Shenyang is the old original seat of the Manchurian Dynasty, so it could have something to do with that also.yes Owen, you are right, if that celebration was taken place in a whole area... that must be for an important holiday... not here though... pity, I would very much like to know what holiday is it! I have bought firecrackers for Chinese New Year, we will wait till the midnight of the Jan 31! ... I forgot to tell my Alan do not call me at that time... cause I wouldn't able to hear anyting except firecrackers! Link to comment
tonado Posted January 25, 2003 Report Share Posted January 25, 2003 I can't log on to msn now! They change the login design but I couldn't get on last night and even now. Link to comment
Guest enight Posted January 25, 2003 Report Share Posted January 25, 2003 I can't log on to msn now! They change the login design but I couldn't get on last night and even now. Tony, what login design? ... I still can login on MSN, sometimes drops though. by the way, my POP3 based email account can not be connected since this afternoon. Link to comment
tonado Posted January 25, 2003 Report Share Posted January 25, 2003 Enight, http://login.passport.net/uilogin.srf?id=2 -------------------------------------------A New Look for Hotmail! To improve the Hotmail sign-in experience, we have updated this page with a new design.------------------------------------------Still not working. I have Verizon DSL now. Next month I will get rid of my MSN ISP. Link to comment
tonado Posted January 25, 2003 Report Share Posted January 25, 2003 Internet traffic broadly affected by electronic attack By Ted Bridis, Associated Press, 1/25/02 WASHINGTON — Traffic on the Internet slowed dramatically for hours early Saturday, the effects of a fast-spreading, virus-like infection that overwhelmed the world's digital pipelines and broadly interfered with Web browsing and delivery of e-mail. Sites monitoring the health of the Internet reported significant slowdowns globally. Experts said the electronic attack bore remarkable similarities to the "Code Red" virus during the summer of 2001 which also ground online traffic to a halt. "It's not debilitating," said Howard Schmidt, President Bush's No. 2 cyber-security adviser. "Everybody seems to be getting it under control." Schmidt said the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center and private experts at the CERT Coordination Center were monitoring the attack and offering technical advice to computer administrators on how to protect against it. Most home users did not need to take any protective measures. The virus-like attack, which began about 12:30 a.m. EST, sought out vulnerable computers on the Internet to infect using a known flaw in popular database software from Microsoft Corp., called "SQL Server 2000." But the attacking software code was scanning for victim computers so randomly and so aggressively -- sending out thousands of probes each second -- that it saturated many Internet data pipelines. Schmidt said disruption within the U.S. government was minimal, partly because the attack occurred early on a Saturday morning. "This is like Code Red all over again," said Marc Maiffret, an executive with eEye Digital Security, whose engineers were among the earliest to study samples of the attack software. "The sheer number of attacks is eating up so much bandwidth that normal operations can't take place." "The impact of this worm was huge," agreed Ben Koshy of W3 International Media Ltd., which operates thousands of Web sites from its computers in Vancouver. "It's a very significant attack." Koshy added that, about six hours after the attack started, commercial Web sites that had been overwhelmed were starting to come back online as engineers began effectively blocking the malicious data traffic. At the height of the attack, another company reported that computers were flooded with more than 125 megabytes of data every second. "People are recovering from it," Koshy said. Symantec Corp., an antivirus vendor, estimated that at least 22,000 systems were affected worldwide. "Traffic itself seems to have leveled off a little bit, so likely only so many systems are exposed out there," said Oliver Friedrichs, senior manager with Symantec Security Response. The attacking software, technically known as a worm, was overwhelming Internet traffic-directing devices known as routers. "The Internet is still usable, but we're definitely receiving reports from some of our customers who have had it affect their routers specifically," Friedrichs said. The attack sought to exploit a software flaw discovered by researchers in July 2002 that permits hackers to seize control of corporate database servers. Microsoft deemed the problem "critical" and offered a free repairing patch, but it was impossible to know how many computer administrators applied the fix. "People need to do a better job about fixing vulnerabilities," Schmidt said. The latest attack was likely to revive debate within the technology industry about the need for an Internet-wide monitoring center, which the Bush administration has proposed. Some Internet industry executives and lawyers said they would raise serious civil liberties concerns if the U.S. government, not an industry consortium, operated such a powerful monitoring center. "No where do you see everything that has happened in cyber-space, no one has that synoptic view," said Dick Clarke, Bush's top cyber-security adviser, during a speech earlier this month to U.S. intelligence officials. "What we're talking about is seeing something in time to stop it, a major cyber attack." During the "Code Red" attack in July 2001, about 300,000 mostly corporate server computers were infected and programmed to launch a simultaneous attack against the Web site for the White House, which U.S. officials were able to defend successfully. Unlike that episode, the malicious software used in this latest attack did not appear to do anything other than try to spread its own infection, experts said. AP technology writers Anick Jesdanun and Frank Bajak contributed to this story from New York. Link to comment
Guest enight Posted January 25, 2003 Report Share Posted January 25, 2003 Enight, http://login.passport.net/uilogin.srf?id=2 -------------------------------------------A New Look for Hotmail! To improve the Hotmail sign-in experience, we have updated this page with a new design.------------------------------------------Still not working. I have Verizon DSL now. Next month I will get rid of my MSN ISP.Tony... I still logined on it sucessfully! the blue little windows on the left side of the screen ...is it? the MSN passport! lol seems it fonds of me! lol Link to comment
skibum Posted January 25, 2003 Report Share Posted January 25, 2003 It was a virus http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/01/2...k.ap/index.html Link to comment
sysy Posted January 25, 2003 Report Share Posted January 25, 2003 oh....candle for love is the only website I can go now!!!I am using ADSL.Of course, virus only infects Microsoft web servers, because Microsoft has long been ignoring security threats to its OS. Linux, which candle is running on, never had a virus, as are the cases for other Unix servers. Monopoly is very harmful to the general public. And this is what we see in real life when a monopoly is slow to react to a long-standing problem. Sounds familiar? Link to comment
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