> I finally got to know the reason for the mysterious > occurrences regarding whois and ping. LL please give > your valuable suggestions on this. > > There seems to be a rogue worm in the wild, aptly > named [EMAIL PROTECTED] worm. Seems > to infect TCP port 43 (thus affecting whois) and > manipulate the server's NVT ASCII replies. The worm > also injects malicious text into the ICMP packets > resulting in the strange ping replies. The worm is > Artificially Intelligent (mind you!) and seems to be > able to do amazing things not discovered yet ... LL > has already encountered one ... what about the others? > > You guys won't believe what happened when I tried to > ping case.edu.pk again some time back. The transcript > is shown below verbatim : > ---------- > $ ping www.case.edu.pk > ..... > Dude, what's your problem? Are you some kind of jerk? > Or plain stupid?
I don't care if you are trying to fool around with the newbies on this list, but you won't get that response using a stock ping program on any os... In fact none of the standard ping programs will ever show the data packets that are transmitted or received. Please keep these jokes outside this list. If you feel that u need to post jokes, then at least mark it as such in the subject line, so that our time is not wasted reading totally useless stuff. In case these are genuine messages that you get from your computer's ping program, consider reinstalling your os.. Ambar Roy PS: I cud not find [EMAIL PROTECTED] worm anywhere. Please provide us with some refferences... _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
