I don't have a scroll bar with firefox how about you?

you mean on the far right? arrows up/down? if so yes i have it.

New 'Doomjuice' Worm Emerges, Targets Microsoft
 

New 'Doomjuice' Worm Emerges, Targets Microsoft
Mon 9 February, 2004 22:42

By Reed Stevenson

SEATTLE (Reuters) - A new worm dubbed "Doomjuice" targeting Microsoft Corp.'s MSFT.O Web site emerged on the Internet on Monday, which security experts said slowed parts of the software maker's home page.

Doomjuice, which some are describing as a variant of the MyDoom worm, spreads via e-mail systems already infected with the first version, which became the fastest-spreading virus ever when it was unleashed on the Internet at the end of January.

"It's only looking for machines that are compromised by MyDoom A or B," said Vincent Gullotto, vice president of the anti-virus emergency response team at Network Associates Inc. NET.N . He said it was not spreading as rapidly as the initial MyDoom worms.

Because Doomjuice spreads directly between infected computers, rather than via e-mail, experts said that it would not be accurate to call it a variant of MyDoom, which accounted for as many as one in five e-mails at its peak in late January.

But some computer security companies and Microsoft have taken to describing Doomjuice as a variant of MyDoom, naming it "MyDoom.C."

The MyDoom worm, as well as its variant MyDoom.B, were designed to entice e-mail recipients to click open an attachment, which then installed malicious software on a personal computer. The worms then instructed infected PCs to flood the Web sites of the SCO Group Inc. SCOX.O and Microsoft in an effort to shut them down.

Doomjuice, which experts said was most likely created by the same author as MyDoom, is designed to flood Microsoft's web site for request for data in an effort to bring it down, an attack known as a distributed denial of service.

Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft said that "all Microsoft.com web properties are stable and available to customers."

Security experts noted, however, that Microsoft's Web site was slower and was intermittently unavailable over the weekend.

The Web site of SCO, a small software maker based in Utah, has been shut down for more than a week after being hit by MyDoom. SCO has drawn the ire of advocates of Linux, the freely available operating system, for claiming to own the copyright on some parts of Linux and demanding licensing fees from users.

Microsoft's Web site http://www.microsoft.com remained up and running on Monday while http://www.sco.com remained offline.

The companies have also set up alternate Web sites at https://information.microsoft.com and http://www.thescogroup.com are each offering a $250,000 bounty for information leading to the capture of MyDoom's author.

I don't I will stick with firebird until FireFox gets out of Beta, the way open source works that should be about a week. I might be able to handle Windoze with these clients. Is Star Office still around?

P.S. I ran Adaware, Norton and Spybot and no new spyware in 2 days, it only takes an hour to get it with IE.

Re: New 'Doomjuice' Worm Emerges, Targets Microsoft
 

OK, this part really irks me. It probably irks pretty much everyone in the Open Source movement. The genius article author is happy to imply that Linux advocates were responsible for MyDoom.

Maybe the MyDoom author doesn't give a rat's bottom about Linux. Still let's suppose that the author really loves Linux; what about the millions of Linux users like me who don't condone things like this? Yes, I want to see SCO get fried for all their stupidity, but I want to see it happen the right way: by IBM's army of lawyers. :p

what i did was delete all of firebird including the folder it was in and then downloaded firefox 0.8 from:

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/0.8.html

clicked open the installer exe file and voila - a clean install.

now i'm 90pct hooked on it . it has some really cool features and i like the tabs a lot.

Windowz, not the way to go....
 

Personally I never liked windows, but I keep using it as an interface and for me it works well, but, there are reasons why. First of all, my connection is routed through a linux machine, an old and slow one, but is routed well so that my computers are not visible to anyone else and the linux box is locked down tight. Sure there is still the possibilities of email infections and spyware and so on, but I'm the only one who has high enough access to accomplish something like this. Everyone else in my house uses the computers for what they need them and nothing more.

Secondly, all my computers except for one are dual boot machines with one boot always being linux, I use redhat since I've been working with it for a few years now and I find it trouble free.

Why I keep windows is for its editors. Since I do quite a bit of coding here and there, having a good editor is #1, and most of the good editors are on windows, but that's all, I just edit things on the windows maching but compile and run them on one of the linux machines, this has worked great for me.

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mydoom virus
 

yeah got en email with an attachment called CC53.tmp which was infected.
that's a different extension than the usual ones i have seen but my anti-virus software still caught it.
:rolleyes:

I have Tab Extensions on Firebird, I'm not sure why the scroll bar won't show up but I'll wait until the beta hype dies down a bit in a few days.

I would still take Mozilla over IE.

missing scrollbar in firefox is discussed here
 

thanks, the forum was down yesterday, because of the beta release.

i've been using mozilla's web browser called "firebird" and i absolutely love it. The only thing is i can't figure out how to get the plug ins to download correctly, any ideas on that?? I havn't had a popup since i've been using it, and the spyware on my computer has drastically been reduced. Screw internet explorer this browser is 10x better,
Ryan

Firefox is even better.

What exactly is your problem with the plug ins?

Microsoft warns of major Windows security flaw
 

Re: Microsoft warns of major Windows security flaw
 

yeah just downloaded that one..:eek:

firefox seems very stable sofar.
anyone know of any issues with making a browser other than IE the 'default' browser and still using outlook or outlook express for e-mail?

???