The Aerie
Some site downtime today, due to the jerks at Marketscore.com. I have not linked to their website, because the website loads viruses, trojans, and spywhere as soon as you connect up to it.
Who are these guys? They seem to be proud to be complete and utter idiots, that's who. They have a record of this kind of network abuse running back several years, and today they decided to spam my comments section of this blog.
Unfortunately, they're as stupid as they are venal. Their spamming tool was faulty. As a side effect of being faulty it ran very fast, like a winch with a snapped cable. Instead of producing spam comments, they rapidly filled up my computer's process table with erroneous tasks that produced thousands of lines like this:
[Wed Dec 15 23:10:15 2004] [error] [client 66.119.33.155] Premature end of script headers
I spent part of the evening trying to reconfigure my firewall to keep them out, but the firewall itself gave me so much trouble that I had to give up for now and just turn off comments.
The only people I hate worse that the jackasses at marketscore.com and other places would be any person stupid enough to ever buy anything due to spamming. I mean, is there ANYONE out there who has ever bought viagra or refinanced their home based on a spam? And if so, how can we remove these people from the gene pool?
Sigh - a whole evening wasted on this nonsense...
Posted by Albatross at December 15, 2004 11:36 PM