Been a BOFH is a hard work specially when you have to do nasty things, like suffer MyDoom, a lot of spam running across mail servers make a normal day a little hell.

Bounces all around, and soon you found yourself writting ugly shell scripts to remove one hundred mails comming from no where for you. Even more, like a death rising from the deep, deep earth Dumaru comes again... another e-mail address to be banned.

Somebody very close to me has experience slow performance on her Hasefroch 98, so I do normal tests... and there were something that I didn't see clear... uhmmm ...something is wrong here I told to myself...

So I open an MS-DOS session and I type: netstat -a | more (Yes, from no more time ago they finally uses more command) and what do you say that meet? ... come on try it. Exactly, few LISTENING lines on ports over 3100 so it may be MyDoom (it listen from 3127 to 3198) so I enforce her to scan again her machine with her brand new anti-virus. I hope it will be a false alarm because she is very carefully with her anti-virus, but as you never know better to scan again and to dowload again definitions from her anti-virus software.

I've just add an image promoting FireFox, if just use Explorer, please, check it, you may use another browser like FireFox which fast, light, and fully standar compliant. Even more, by using tabs you may browse much more clearly.


If you use another SO (MacOS, BSD, Linux ...) for sure that know what it FireFox and you don't need that introduction... we got to make it knowed among MS users, don't you?