I’ve mentioned X-Plane before – it’s a flight simulator that strives to be as accurate flight modeling -wise as possible. Realism is one of their goals and it’s also unique in that it’s available for Mac/Windows and Linux (version 8 that is). (There is flightgear also, but X-Plane has still felt like better competition for Microsoft’s Flight Simulator line.) Anyway… Version 8 had linux support. Version 9 has beta’s out now for Windows and Mac, but there are rumors in the forums that version 9 may not see linux support. (Apparently the person in charge of the linux port has been hired by Google and was working on the linux port in his free time gratis…) I hope we’ll see a version 9 of X-Plane for linux. I wish I could lend help, but bash scripting is pretty much the zenith of my coding skills. (BTW – version 9 LOOKS nice from the screenshots I’ve seen. Here come a few more x-plane related thoughts….
Tag: LOOKS
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More on the Santa IM worm
There are a couple of stories out about the Santa IM worm, otherwise known as IM.GiftCom.All. First up Sans has some interesting analysis of it. It appears that it’s being hosted at 69.56.129.67, when run it resolves smtp.girlsontheblock.com to 38.118.133.241 and attempts to open tcp port 53. It renames itself as c:\windows\winrpc.exe and sets up shop as “Windows RPC Services”. They’re saying instead of a worm it should be more accurately termed a bot with replicating capabilities, it is reliant on controls from an outside site. (From their analysis I presume the 69. ip address above?)