Okay, so I sit down at my desk, power up my laptop, plug in the modem cable and open up Internet Explorer and what do I see before me?
A page saying that my connection has been killed/blocked/nuked by NTL until I download a Blaster-Patch for WindowsXP and both a Blaster and Welchia scrubber.
Now, the page was at ntli.net, so I was immediately suspicious. I clicked my proxy on to bypass that page (I would've just gone on IRC or used e-mail to check with other people that it was real, but my IRC and E-mail ports have also been blocked), and went to NTLworld.com to check if it was real and not some hoax. Sure enough, there it was on the NTL homepage about a revised security thing and that people were being forced to download the patch and scrubbers. So I'm assuming it's all above board.
Now, I'm not a violent or easily annoyed man, but this is just ****ing retarded and I hope those bastards at NTL burn in hell. Not only have I already installed the patch via WindowsUpdate and ran the scrubber, I happened to have done so several weeks ago when the worm was actually in full effect. And I've also blocked the affected ports with my Magical Firewall of Hax0r Doom™.
And to make things worse, the morons didn't even include a nice little button on their forced warning page saying "I'm not a dumbass and already fixed my computer weeks ago", oh no, they make EVERYONE do it.
So, to summarise, I'm looking to buy some rockets, a few grenades and 10 loyal mercenaries. Or at least I will be once the crappy-ass scrubber is finished it's 20 hour task of searching my hard-drive.
They've totally killed hundreds of thousands of peoples connections to fix a worm that was first counter-acted months ago. Kudos for the quick response.
This is the most retarded thing I have ever seen happen on the net, even surpassing RichardSimmons.com.
*wanders off to switch to a BT ASDL connection*
