I think it has with that particular office space. I was majorly screwed ($400)
on some RAM by the software/computer parts company that was formerly in
that building. VOS was (once upon a time) pretty good.
I have had really good luck with Computer Base.
They don't know much on the *nix side, but they have always been solid and right
on. They sold me a 12Gb IBM UltraLVD drive that was DOA, He sat on the phone
with IBM tech support and got me another express shipped to his store.
Pretty cool service if you ask me.
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 09:36:33AM -0700, Dennis Soper wrote:
> On Saturday 11 August 2001 19:40, you wrote:
>
> > Robert at VOS told me The CodeRed is affecting Linux and FreeBSD and some
> > other Unixes. I tend not to believe him untill I have some facts. He said
> > I haven't done my research. I thought someone on the list would know. I
> > don't see how it could. I could see it flooding one of the ports but
> > that's about it. He said it was written in machine language. I would
> > think that would be assembler. If this is true or not could you show me
> > it's not. I'd like to print it up and show him.
>
> I have 2 production Linux web servers at the U of O. The only thing Code Red
> has done is fill my log files full of garbage. Code Red only works on IIS--
> as the logs show it looks for specific files, which are not present when
> using the Apache server, whether in *nix or Windoze. However, the traffice
> Code Red generates on a network could slow down response time of a *nix box
> running Apache (but not as much as installing Windoze on the machine). And,
> as a properly *nix configured box doesn't run Apache as root, it's going to
> be rather diffucult to install a trojan. Apache hasn't had a major security
> flaw, such as Code Red, since 1997.
>
> <rant on>Robert at VOS should pull his head out of his backside and take a
> gander at what CERT says about this Trojan. My experience with the people at
> VOS is that they are not very knowledgeable or IMHO, honest. I've seen
> Soundblaster 128 PCI sound cards in the store packaged (and priced) as
> Soundblaster Live! Value cards. They sold me a computer with a flaky
> motherboard and wouldn't repair it (this is before I started building my
> own). They've also screwed over a number of other people who I know-- so
> much so that I recommend that people I know who ask me where to buy clones to
> steer clear of their business, and to go to Stan's instead.</rant off>
>
> Cheers,
> Dennis
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