Monday, July 26, 2004
MyDoom variant takes down Google
the trouble with ubiquitous systems is that when they're down, the world appears to have collapsed too. I've been unable to do much work this evening cos the latest version of MyDoom uses Google to search for valid email addresses from any domain names it can find on your hard disk - and this has taken Google down. And receiving a 'service not available' message from Google was a big shock, but it not coming back up quickly was a bigger one, and I was left staring at my screen for a whileuntil some higher cognitive functions managed to kick in and suggest to me that there were, in fact, other search engines out there I could use.....
Work done, and those higher functions have left me - I'm off to get some KFC for dinner.....
the trouble with ubiquitous systems is that when they're down, the world appears to have collapsed too. I've been unable to do much work this evening cos the latest version of MyDoom uses Google to search for valid email addresses from any domain names it can find on your hard disk - and this has taken Google down. And receiving a 'service not available' message from Google was a big shock, but it not coming back up quickly was a bigger one, and I was left staring at my screen for a whileuntil some higher cognitive functions managed to kick in and suggest to me that there were, in fact, other search engines out there I could use.....
Work done, and those higher functions have left me - I'm off to get some KFC for dinner.....
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