Saturday, May 17, 2003

"The Fizzer Worm is a Curious Yellow-like worm. It infects Windows systems through a variety of paths, takes control of them, coordinates subsequent infection attempts using an IRC channel. It gets code-updates from a Geocities webpage, so that it can mutate to avoid anti-virus software.

A coalition of IRC operators who've banded together to fight the worm have hijacked the Geocities webpage that Fizzer uses to update itself and they've posted a poison-pill to it. The next time the worm checks for its update, it will download a set of instructions that tell it to uninstall itself." (via Boing Boing)

Usually, it's Westerners who invent artificial languages. Here's the first one invented by a Korean. (Warning: if your browser is Netscape this site will make it crash.)

This site (via Salam Pax) is sort of a gateway to the wonderful world of Muslim Blogs.

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