Newsgroup: it.comp.sicurezza.varie
Titolo: Beware! Beware!

lusers, are happy.
Shit, you've just touched a nerve there.
My favourite pet peeve is that most cursed of inventions, the Windows
Firewall. The concept is, at first glance, sound; you try to add
stability to the quaking dungpile that is Windows Networking.
In practice, all you do is add a lot of clicky buttons for the lusers,
and things to worry their little braincells over. [1] There are also
instructions with these products, but you might as well label these with
large letters: THROW THIS IN THE BIN NOW.
Today's iteration of this was a classic of the type.
Joe Random Luser installs BlackIce [2] and sees a whole world of things
happening to his FPOS windows box that he previously hadn't ever known
about.
Cheif among these new worries is a box called something like
dns.ourdomain.net
 [3], which seems to be connecting to his beloved box
an awful lot of the time.
Paranoia creeps in. He blocks this vile cracker from his pristine
system.
At this point a worrying slowness creeps in [4], almost as if this vile
attacker has Done Something to his Windoze box.
So, at this point natural brainstem functions creep in. The luser whines
to the NetAbuse people here, and recounts his sorry tale, in shaky
ungrammatical capital letters, with multiple exclamation marks.
Moreover, he demands the immediate commencement of a hunt for the vile
hacker who wreaked so much damage on his immaculate system. [5]
And that was why we were laughing all afternoon today.
[1] 1.333314 braincells per luser. On average.
[2] A fucking Gibson-ism there. That tells you that the product'll be
shit, even before you see any more.
[3] Names changed to protect the guilty, i.e. me.
[4] Almost like a system that has been blocked from connecting to it's
primary DNS and is having to wait for a timeout and fail over to the
secondary DNS server...
[5] ...and slowed his downloading of porn, warez etc. so grievously.
--*
Dan Holdsworth PhD   
da...@supanet.com
By caffeine alone I set my mind in motion, By the beans of Java 
do thoughts acquire speed,  hands acquire shaking,  the shaking
becomes a warning, By caffeine alone do I set my mind in motion
Leonardo ROTFLante
"You are already familiar with the basic principles of placating unknown gods..."
                                       Voodoo for Windows programmers - chapter I

[5] ...and slowed his downloading of porn, warez etc. so grievously.
LOL
The perfect AOLer :-)

was popularly supposed to have said:
aaaccchhh, abiette scuse a tutti. Per un errore tecnico (mio di me), il
post non e' quotato, sicche' sembra che sia io a scrivere.
Non sto rispondendo a un tizio in inglese. Ho preso tutto il post da un
newsgroup dove lurko. Di mio c'e' solo la firma, il resto e' di un tale
Dan Holdsworth.
Leonardo
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 Dan Holdsworth.
Qual'e' il Message-ID? 8-DDDD
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 play with that shit for hours
Hey Juliet, why all this anger against that poor little kitten? Wait for
me getting my she-cat read these words...
Hey Juliet, perche' questa rabbia verso quel povero micio? Aspetta che
l'abbia fatta leggere alla mia gatta... 8-)
-- 
Max meeowww... fsssst, purrrrr purrrrr.
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 Qual'e' il Message-ID? 8-DDDD
Qualcosa mi perplime alquanto: perché in questo 3ad vedo solo
(20:37) i messaggi di Max, e non quelli ai quali sta rispondendo ?
Da che NewsServer vengono ?
Buon Anno, Secolo e Millennio.
Bye, G.

 (20:37) i messaggi di Max, e non quelli ai quali sta rispondendo ?
??? Io ne vedo 6 nel momento in cui rispondo (questo escluso, quindi):
Leo         - 16/12/100
KJK::Juliet - 16/12/100
Firebeam    - 31/12/100
Leo         - 17/12/100
Firebeam    - 31/12/100
Paperino    - 01/01/101
-- 
Max e il revival del bug Y2K.
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