Running Out Of Resources? It Could Be The Prince Of Darkness

[Ed Hansberry]

<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=178748">http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=178748</a><br /><br />Now I have seen it all. Microsoft has a KB article entitled "SMS: SATAN Causes High Memory Utilization in WUSER32." :lol: <br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/hansberry/2004/20040123-satan.gif" /><br /><br />Of course, if that is true, then how do you clear it up? Call Microsoft's tech support or have an exorcism?

[Terry]

Dip your WUser32 in Holy Water. :onfire:
If you use MS Tech Support, be prepared for a 666-dollar charge.

[sublime]

I'm sorry, but that's bloody hilarious.

And the picture of South Park's Satan adds to the effect.

Jolly good show, old chap!

*golf clap*

[Pat Logsdon]

And the picture of South Park's Satan adds to the effect.
I think we need the Windows logo where the skull is, though.

At least now we know the TRUE origins of the B.S.O.D.!

:mrgreen:

[Janak Parekh]

Microsoft has a KB article entitled "SMS: SATAN Causes High Memory Utilization in WUSER32."
Should I be afraid that I understand that sentence precisely? 8O

--janak

[Steven Cedrone]

Microsoft has a KB article entitled "SMS: SATAN Causes High Memory Utilization in WUSER32."
Should I be afraid that I understand that sentence precisely? 8O

--janak

I wonder how many other people were thinking the same thing... :wink:

Steve

[Fzara]

Wow must be a really slow news day today. :(

[Ed Hansberry]

Wow must be a really slow news day today. :(
I do this almost every Friday. Browse the OT forum and look at Friday afternoon posts.

[whydidnt]

Now all I can picture is Bill Gates dressed as the Church Lady from Saturday Night Live. He's saying....
"Sooo, who do you think made you want to use Linux? Hmmm, let me see, was it SAAAATAN!!!!!?? :twisted:

[Steven Cedrone]

Kinda' reminds me of the "IBM Mouse Ball Replacement" memo... :wink:

Remember that one??

Steve

[Ed Hansberry]

Kinda' reminds me of the "IBM Mouse Ball Replacement" memo... :wink:
http://www.mdarwin.ca/humour/mouse-balls.phtml :rotfl: - though it has always been a joke - never a serious memo that some hapless engineer wrote. http://www.snopes.com/humor/business/mouse.htm

[Steven Cedrone]

Yes, classic "urban legend", but still great... And funny!!! And, at the time it came out, there was no Google to check it on... :wink:

Steve

[Tom W.M.]

Hah! Reminds me of the way, at one point, if you searched on Google for "The source of all evil" you'd get Microsoft.com, 'cause a whole lot of webpages had been set up to link the site with that phrase. It doesn't work now (Instead you get a page complainging about the cancellation of Freakazoid, Animanicacs, and Pinky and the Brain; claiming that the head of the WB TV network is the source of all evil.), but it was sure funny then. :twisted:

And yes Janak, you should be very afraid.

[darrylb]

I dont know if you guys have been subtlely saying this or not, but you know that this refers to the Security Administrator Toolkit for Analyzing Networks (http://www.fish.com/satan/) dont you?

This thing made world headlines when it came out...... :)

[JustinGTP]

And the picture of South Park's Satan adds to the effect.
I think we need the Windows logo where the skull is, though.

At least now we know the TRUE origins of the B.S.O.D.!

:mrgreen:

Ask and you shall recieve: http://www.angelfire.com/ultra/ppcc/stan.jpg

:lol:

[Eitel]

So, after all this time, all those people that said that Microsoft is the devil are wrong.

Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks (SATAN) is a UNIX- based...

[Foo Fighter]

See....Microsoft really is the evil empire. :wink:

[Ed Hansberry]

This thing made world headlines when it came out...... :)
Oh is too funny! :rotfl:

Was it on Google News or some other news aggregator?

[Steven Cedrone]

http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/ToolsUnixNetSec.html#Satan

It was big news because of how the tool could be used by "bad" people...

Steve

[i_spock]

I dont know if you guys have been subtlely saying this or not, but you know that this refers to the Security Administrator Toolkit for Analyzing Networks (http://www.fish.com/satan/) dont you?

This thing made world headlines when it came out...... :)

Seemed obvious to me too, but I guess you have to keep in mind people's ages... this was probably a little too "old school" for a lot of people here... :)

[Steven Cedrone]

I dont know if you guys have been subtlely saying this or not, but you know that this refers to the Security Administrator Toolkit for Analyzing Networks (http://www.fish.com/satan/) dont you?

This thing made world headlines when it came out...... :)

Seemed obvious to me too, but I guess you have to keep in mind people's ages... this was probably a little too "old school" for a lot of people here... :)

Guys, relax... Have a little fun with it... :wink:

Steve

[Jonathon Watkins]

Wow must be a really slow news day today. :(
I do this almost every Friday. Browse the OT forum and look at Friday afternoon posts.

Hey, that's one of the great things about PPCT - you gets all kinds of stuff on the front page - including things we can have a good laugh about. Every front page post isn't necessarily about PPCs or related technology. It's good to kick back every now and again. I like it! :way to go:

BTW - nice one Honda_Civic_Si. 8)

[JustinGTP]

heh - thanks! :D

[darrylb]

It was big news because of how the tool could be used by "bad" people...


What is also funny is that I've never heard anyone use it in a bad way... but VBScript on the other hand.... the mother of all virus tools (especially the outlook viruses....)

Was it on Google News or some other news aggregator?

I remembered it from headlines here in NZ, but a quick google brought up the home page (search for SATAN). :D

[Steven Cedrone]

What is also funny is that I've never heard anyone use it in a bad way... but VBScript on the other hand.... the mother of all virus tools (especially the outlook viruses....)

Although the tool was *supposed* to be used by Net Admins to uncover vulnerabilities in their networks, it quickly became apparent that *bad* people could use it to find and exploit holes in networks...

Steve

[Janak Parekh]

Although the tool was *supposed* to be used by Net Admins to uncover vulnerabilities in their networks, it quickly became apparent that *bad* people could use it to find and exploit holes in networks...
That's true of any vulnerability assessors, though. nmap is another great example. I use it legitimately all the time to see how locked down my box is, but I'm sure crackers use it to find holes....

--janak