Brandorf.com

Miles and Miles of Music.

By now, you've probbably heard of my love affair with allofmp3.com. What? You haven't? What is allofmp3.com, you ask? Well, let me tell you about allofmp3.com, it's a russian-owned online music store that has prices so low it exposes napster 2 and iTunes for the ripoff they are. $.99 for one measley, encrypted, low quality song?

Bzzt! Wrong!

Try one freaking penny per megabyte, no encryption, and you pick the bitrate and format. Like OGG? Download in ogg, want MP3? That's fine too. Want Lossless Audio? Whe'll they're starting to offer that too.

Take a look at how much music I've downloaded from them already:

These are all the full album, encoded at least 256kbps in OGG Vorbis format. Though I have in fact downladed 4.2 gigabytes the end cost? A mere $42. I challenge you to get this much music at anywhere close to this proce and have it be legal..

Recursive Email?

I just got this interesting bit of E-mail today:

(The less relevant header information has been removed.)

From - Thu Mar 04 06:07:45 2004
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 16:44:48 -0800
To: brandorf@brandorf.com
Subject: Warning about your e-mail account.
From: administration@brandorf.com
Message-ID:
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="--------kateiposrtvexewlixkm"

----------kateiposrtvexewlixkm
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Hello user of Brandorf.com e-mail server,

Some of our clients complained about the spam (negative e-mail content)
outgoing from your e-mail account. Probably, you have been infected by
a proxy-relay trojan server. In order to keep your computer safe,
follow the instructions.

For further details see the attach.

For security purposes the attached file is password protected. Password is "15303".

Kind regards,
The Brandorf.com team http://www.brandorf.com

Really? That's so nice of the Brandorf.com team to watch out for me. I depend on them everyday to make sure I can safely navigate the perils of the internet. I mean what will all of those spammers, virus writers and other unpleasantries out to get me, who will keep me safe? Thanks Brandorf.com!

Hey, wait a second...

Yes, this is in fact junk email. But it really cought my attention as claiming to be from, well... ME. Honestly I don't know who in the world falls for this, and to find out just what this is. I decided to run the attachment. In a virtual machine of course.

It turns out that the Zip file was indeed password locked, but since they were kind enough to supply the password, there was no problem. I copied the Executable over to the VM, interestingly enough, it is desguised with the windows write icon. What horrible doom was I about to unlease upon my poor VM?

Turns out it was the Bagle worm. But as is the joy of the VM, it did no damage. But that was fun. Now I need to track down who has my email address and also has the bagle worm. Fun times lie ahead.