God’s big-budget sequel to the monkey

Dear HotMail. if we could throw you into the sun the world would be a better place because of it. Please go diaf. That said, lets move on…

In addition to the abnormally massive amount of inbound spam I’ve been seeing enter our network from hotmail lately, I got this gem of a phishing email yesterday. “too many the illegal transactions” indeed…

Received: from blu0-omc3-s37.blu0.hotmail.com

From: billing@blizzard.com
To: [me]
Subject: World of Warcraft account disable notification
Date: 05/10/10 00:16:49

Dear World of Warcraft fans, because your server is there a large number of illegal transactions, and other server players were a large number complaints to your account. The To World of Warcraft, we conducted a detailed analysis and review. After this analysis, we draw preliminary conclusions: Your account has been participating too many the illegal transactions, we will permanently ban your account. At this moment we are to understand your feelings, if you have any questions please visit http://[malicious domain removed]
Blizzard of fraud and abuse department

Now, normally this wouldn’t even be an issue. Amusing grammar aside, I either delete and move on or train my filters where appropriate. The fact that this came from hotmail is really what irritates me. I have a slightly bias view I suppose but being a product of Windows Live now, hotmail makes it a point to block IP’s and network ranges based on obscure metrics with little to no REAL proof of said metrics. Having such seemingly snobbish high standards for data filtering and a holier than thou attitude towards email services in general, it irritates the HELL out of me to see all this garbage spewing from their network all willy nilly. nerdrage off

Being the CLI junky that I am and always trying to find an easier way to do things via command line, I installed edictionary:

Homepage: http://edictionary.sourceforge.net/
Description: Command line dictionary and thesaurus

For my first test: The misspelling of “appointment”

edict apointment
edict – Your personal command line dictionary. Version 2.2.
Looking up “apointment” in Merriam Webster Online Dictionary…
Don’t understand Swahili words like apointment !!

Such epic fail, it approaches win.

Classic tourett’s guy reaction to spam:

I AM TIRED OF YOU MOTHERFUCKING ILLEGAL TERRORIST FUCKING GOOKS RUNNING THIS FUCKING ILLEGAL SITES. THIS IS THE SAME SHIT YOU DO WITH ONLINEMEDCAN.COM AND EVERYTHING ELSE

I HOPE ALL OF YOU PIECE OF SHIT CRIMINALS GETS AIDS AND DIE AND BURN IN HELL YOU FUCKING SHIT FUCKS

A Great Success!

Spiders really don’t bother me much. Not the real ones anyway, but the thought of a Microsoft Spider could possibly give me nightmares. Those are better off blocked imo.

Nick: Hey scollins
Nick: did killer say anything about the modsec rule that looks like its blocking microsoft spiders?
scollins: I haven’t heard anything. but microsoft spiders sound really scary.
***scollins shivers.

Current Mood:  amused

Guess I’m gonna have to try this out:

MultiISO LiveDVD v1.0

Version 1.0 consists of Backtrack 3, Damn Small Linux (DSL) 4.2.5, GeeXboX 1.1, Damn Vulnerable Linux (Strychnine) 1.4 edition, Knoppix 5.1.1, MPentoo 2006.1, Ophcrack 1.2.2 (remastered to contain SSTIC04-5k [720MB] table sets), Puppy Linux 3.01, and last but not least Byzantine OS i586-20040404.