Second Life Attacked By Giant Worm
A massive nasty worm hit Second Life at 2:46 CST today, causing random spinning gold rings to appear in the air. A miscreant programmer created this virus to activate if anyone touches it. Once touched, the ring replicates itself, causing tremendous slow-down of the servers.
Most people are willing to touch an item they haven’t seen before, so the worm was designed to spread across Linden Lab’s 2,700 plus servers. Many of the 600,000 active Second Lifers, experienced terrible lag, and lost connection to the game. This is the largest known denial-of-service attack on an online game.
Linden Labs shut down all logins by anyone other than their staff, to clean up what they describe as the grey goo.
The grey goo? Trust me, you don’t want to get that in your eyes, it burns.
Second Life Hit By Massive In-Game Worm [Slashdot]
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Posted to Video Games on 20 November 2006
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good ol’ grey goo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Goo