Thread: Secondlife under attack - interesting, interactive worm

At 2:46 CST today, the game Second Life was hit by a massive attack by a rogue programmer. Spinning gold rings began to appear in the air and on the ground, and as users interacted with them they began to chase and replicate. Apparently, most people are willing to touch an object they've never seen before and this invoked a worm script that was designed to multiply and spread across the 2,700+ servers run by Linden Labs in California, the game's owner. Many of the six hundred thousand active users experienced serious lag and lost connectivity to the servers, making it one of the largest known denial-of-service attacks in an online game. Linden Labs had to invoke martial law and lock out all logins by users except their staff as they began the task of cleaning the servers of what they began to term 'the grey goo.'"

The rest from /.

http://blog.secondlife.com/2006/11/19/grey-goo-on-grid/


Just wow this is a first for sure...this is bizarre, whats next Kill Rag and your HDD goes BOOM?!

lol imagine this as a beta, what if this happend in wow?

lol heres a quick example for those with no imagination
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//world\\majical sword of uberletage appears behind you
//little jonny\\ omfg !!!! it does 30000 dps per second with + 500 to all stats!!1!!one!!
//little jonny\\ clicks on sword of uberletage
//message box\\ little jonnys acount has been stolen and his hdd will be wiped this is automated message ps all in your friends list have just been given the sword of uberletage

//little jonny\\ WTF!!!!!!!
//message box\\no porn for joo!!

computer is usless.....

my guild wars account got hacked and everything stolen, me and my brother think it was someone who hacked a Vbulletin forum cos i was using same email and pass. Its been anouying as remembering important sites and changing passwords from that point.