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Internet Malfunction - SQL Worm On The Loose *Updated*
Posted by [PM], 01/25/2003 09:38 AM 
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It seems that a real LOAD of websites is unavailable at the time of this writing. This outage includes:
www.artofgregmartin.com, www.neowin.net, www.okaysoft.de, www.netshelter.net, www.avault.com, www.ve3d.com, www.internettrafficreport.com, www.tech-critic.com, www.littlewhitedog.com, www.overclockers.com, www.theinquirer.net, www.tech-report.com, www.viaarena.com, www.winbeta.org, www.windowplanet.net, www.anandtech.com, www.amdmb.com,
and other major websites.
Rumour has it said this offline frenzy is related to AT&T routers/backbones/servers. We will keep you informed.
Update: A basic 'internet health report' can be found here: InternetPulse.net. TwistedMetal from Tech-Critic has provided some more details:
ISP's using AT&T, started reporting their servers were slow, and that it was a router problem. A little while after that, 3/4 of the AT&T servers went down, and caused a major amount of sites to go offline. There is a backbone server called Winstar/GoodNet owned by AT&T, which is down also.
Driverheaven reports: There appears to be a Microsoft SQL Monitor worm spreading. Massive UDP traffic on port 1434 is affecting major internet backbones, including UUNET. Of course, servers and home users are being flooded as well. Many websites are currently inaccessible or slow, depending on your location and ISP. The SQL worm attack began Friday. It's sort of DoS'ing port 1434. Affected software is Microsoft SQL Server 2000 as to be read in this CERT/CC bulletin. Affected users and server administrators are advised to shut down servers and install this security patch or Microsoft SQL Server 2000 SP3 immediately. After patching SQL should run normally. More information about the worm named DDOS_SQLP1434.A is available from Trendmicro or Symantec. Interested observers may check for Packet Loss & IP reachability charts updated every hour: More real time stats: http://average.matrix.net Live info from NO-IP: NO-IP.com There is a good event summary on CNN. Everyone who just tuned in and wants to catch up on early morning developments is encouraged to give that article a read.
Driverheaven reports: There appears to be a Microsoft SQL Monitor worm spreading. Massive UDP traffic on port 1434 is affecting major internet backbones, including UUNET. Of course, servers and home users are being flooded as well. Many websites are currently inaccessible or slow, depending on your location and ISP. The SQL worm attack began Friday. It's sort of DoS'ing port 1434. Affected software is Microsoft SQL Server 2000 as to be read in this CERT/CC bulletin. Affected users and server administrators are advised to shut down servers and install this security patch or Microsoft SQL Server 2000 SP3 immediately. After patching SQL should run normally. More information about the worm named DDOS_SQLP1434.A is available from Trendmicro or Symantec. Interested observers may check for Packet Loss & IP reachability charts updated every hour: More real time stats: http://average.matrix.net Live info from NO-IP: NO-IP.com There is a good event summary on CNN. Everyone who just tuned in and wants to catch up on early morning developments is encouraged to give that article a read.
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#40729 Posted on: 01/25/2003 10:41 AM
ATT Cable in Los Angeles, i have been pulling my hair out thinking my pc had a problem. Guess this explains %75 of websites being either down or slug slow. Hope something is done soon...
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#40730 Posted on: 01/25/2003 10:42 AM
windowsbeta seems to be down aswell
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#40731 Posted on: 01/25/2003 11:16 AM
Norway here, on cable: Everything is so slow! I have been with slowness problems 2 days ago, I am not so sure if all this is related to the internet problems.
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#40733 Posted on: 01/25/2003 02:42 PM
I wondered why everything was down! All the site's I go to (except Warp2Search thank god) are down!
I hope it gets sorted soon. I am just north of London in the UK. ISP is NTLWorld (Cable Modem).
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#40734 Posted on: 01/25/2003 02:42 PM
Oh yeah MSN Messenger is down also.
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#40735 Posted on: 01/25/2003 02:45 PM
Every finnish page works fine, no problems here.
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#40740 Posted on: 01/25/2003 04:07 PM
Damn a lot of sites don't seem to work atm,
But hey at least W2S and my site are up
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Hey Rancho, I'm with you on this one, i'm on the main fibre back bone in NY (via cable) and I've got around 30-40% of my sites down for the last 3 hrs. Planethalflife.com and counter-strike.com come to mind just now.