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Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 7:45:48 am PDT

A lot of readers emailed about a new Iranian web site that purports to be Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s blog, and a lot of other blogs have linked to it.

But before you click through to the site (from somewhere else, I won’t post the link here), make sure your virus prevention software is up to date—because it may try to exploit a weakness in Internet Explorer to install a “back door” in your computer: Pres. Ahmadinejad trying to infect Israelis with web viruses?

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1 Praxeus  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 5:47:57am

Hitler on the web.

2 Occasional Reader  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 5:50:13am

All of your PCs are belong to us.

(somebody had to do it)

3 taxfreekiller[deleted]  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 5:50:36am
4 Ringo the Gringo  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 5:51:25am

Does the 60 Minutes website link to it?

5 orangutan  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 5:52:12am

Thank you for visiting the website of the Iranian President. Please leave all your belongings here.

What a guy.

6 MoonbatBane  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 5:52:18am

OT (sorta): Nutroots love Imadinnerjacket: [Link: www.freerepublic.com...]

Gee, no shock there. Can we question their patriotism now? /SPIT

7 JammieWearingFool  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 5:53:05am

Iran Cracks Down on President's Blog

As part of its ongoing crackdown on internal dissent, the Islamic Republic of Iran today briefly shut down a weblog recently launched by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Sources close to the Council of Guardians that oversees the government said the Ahmadinejad blog turned up on a Google search of Iranian-based blogs that mention the Iranian president, triggering the standard shut-down order.

A spokesman for Mr. Ahmadinejad said he fully supports the Council’s efforts “to ensure that public discourse is pure and unadulterated by unauthorized free speech.”

He insisted to Mike Wallace that he invented the Internet, and Wallace just nodded with loving approval. Then got on his knees.

8 FrogMarch  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 5:53:26am

Mike Wallace approves, I'm sure.

9 kansas  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 5:54:57am

From AP: Check the last sentence.

The last two of the 11 Egyptian exchange students who failed to show up at their college program were apprehended Sunday in Richmond, Va., customs officials said.


Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Mohamed Saleh Ahmed Maray, 20, and Mohamed Ibrahim Fouaad El Shenawy, 17, at an apartment building in Richmond on Sunday night. Virginia State Police and the Richmond Police helped locate the students.

Last Wednesday, one of the Egyptian students was arrested in Minneapolis and two were detained in Manville, N.J. On Thursday, two were arrested in Dundalk, Md., and one was arrested at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. Three more were arrested Friday in Des Moines, Iowa.

The students were to attend a monthlong program at Montana State University in Bozeman, Mont. A group of 17 students arrived in New York on July 29. Six reported to Bozeman on time.

After Montana State repeatedly tried to contact the missing students, it notified Homeland Security Department officials and registered the Egyptians as no-shows in a system to track foreign students developed after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

None of the students is considered a terrorism risk.

10 Ward Cleaver  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 5:55:50am

Is Internet Haganah on the case? I saw Weisburd on Fox yesterday, talking about the IP whack-a-mole he had to play with Hizb'Allah's Web site.

11 Kragar (proud to be kafir)  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 5:55:55am

Any reports yet of what happens if the code is allowed to run?

12 ashan  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 5:55:59am

If you enter the blog through a non-Symbian 3G cellular phone nothing bad will happen. The worst thing that could happen is that you may feel very nauseous from seeing pix of the eeevil Hitlerinajacket.

13 Carridine  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 5:56:17am

One MORE reason many of us turned to FireFox, Tiny Firewall, SpySweeper and AVG Anti-Virus instead of Norton!

But thanks for the headzup, Charles!

14 billhedrick  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 5:57:06am

Internet Explorer? who uses that anymore?

15 Mister Ghost  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 5:57:56am

I pray the US bombs Iran, just to read Mahmoud's blog that day.

16 tigger2005  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 5:57:57am

# 3 taxfreekiller

If someone gave me a serious proposal ... "Let us fit you with a poison-gas packed false tooth which you can break open by biting down hard on it, and send you to do an interview with Ahmanutjob so you can do him in, but it will kill you also" ... I'd do it. It would be well worth it. Some kinds of suicide attacks are morally justified.

/idea stolen from "Dune"

17 taxfreekiller[deleted]  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 5:58:02am
18 Earth2moonbat  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 5:58:19am

#13 Carridine

Or Linux (neener, neener)...

19 MunchausenBiPartisanSyndrome  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 5:58:25am

This is truly shocking. Ahmadinejad hates Israel? Damn my luck. And just when I was starting to give a crap what the rest of the world thinks of us...
Good thing Mike Wallace really challenged the guy...

20 JammieWearingFool  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 5:58:43am

The only difference between the Dinnerjacket blog and DU or Kos is the Iranian blog will infect your PC with a virus while at the lunatic sites, everyone there is already infected with a mental virus.

21 Ward Cleaver  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 5:58:46am

#7 Jammie

Then got on his knees.

You mean his elbows?

/imadinnerjacket is a runt

22 J.D.  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 5:58:46am
...make sure your virus prevention software is up to date—because it may try to exploit a weakness in Internet Explorer to install a “back door” in your computer: Pres. Ahmadinejad trying to infect Israelis with web viruses?


Thanks for the warning.

23 Carridine  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 5:59:18am
"None of the students is considered a terrorism risk."

Wow!
Great!
Super, Gee...
Hoky Smokes, I just feel SO REASSURED...

Hey.

wow

24 ladycatnip  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 5:59:42am

#9 kansas,

Every single article I googled about these missing students has that disclaimer:

None of the missing students is considered a terrorism risk.

CAIR would be proud.

Since when does our government issue nationwide alerts for students who violate their visas and don't show up for class?

25 Jape  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 6:00:45am

Cheese and crackers.

Is anybody still using Internet Explorer?

www.mozilla.org

I'm using Seamonkey (stupid name change from Mozilla), but Firefox (same thing just stripped down) and Opera are good.

Lynx is the safest browser, though. ;)

26 Mister Ghost  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 6:00:55am

And hopefully Mahmoud will Liveblog the debris crashing down on his head.
Allah Damn You Big Satan... Ouch That Hurt

27 taxfreekiller[deleted]  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 6:00:56am
28 Cartman  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 6:03:23am

For some odd reason, I don't feel an overwhelming urge to check out "his" site.

29 Carridine  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 6:03:49am
"...Mr. Ahmadinejad said he fully supports the Council’s efforts “to ensure that public discourse is pure and unadulterated by unauthorized free speech.”

Can't have any of that unauthorized, adulterated, impure free speech, nossir!

30 quercus albus  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 6:04:29am

Thanks for the warning. Not sure I want to go there anyway. A madman bent on islamifying the world says, "Come into my parlor..". Pass.

31 mungagungadin  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 6:07:39am

CHARLES:

I'm a 'puter-moron. I have no idea what my operating system is, and I'd have a hard time identifying the maker of my laptop. I HAVE clicked to that site. Is there any way you could ask your pajamas people how to click to and ANTIDOTE? I hate the thought that my fly's open with this sleezeball around.

32 MandyManners  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 6:09:12am

Can someone give me a phonetic pronunciation to this whacko's name?

33 Paco from Sefarad  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 6:11:09am

#32 MandyManners

Can someone give me a phonetic pronunciation to this whacko's name

Aarg-meenie-jihad

34 m  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 6:12:03am

#32 MandyManners

Imma-damn-jihadi

35 therewaslight  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 6:12:18am

Are Firefox browsers in the clear?

36 Paco from Sefarad  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 6:12:38am

sorry, make that Aarg-madeenie-jad :-P

37 ladycatnip  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 6:12:47am

#32

Ahma-dinnah-jahd

38 JammieWearingFool  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 6:12:48am

MM:

Ah-MOD-in-a-zhod

39 Murqtaad  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 6:12:56am

because it may try to exploit a weakness in Internet Explorer to install a “back door” in your computer

...and that's exactly why I fought the urge to click on the link at work...

40 Just_A_Grunt  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 6:12:58am

I was more concerned with them collecting information such as IP adresses and then collecting other personal data. Ahma dinnerjacket and his Islamo fascist movement are dangerous. After watching the interview on "60 Minutes" in which he tried to put on a full court charm offensive, always smiling, never appearing to get upset except for one notable exception. Watch the look on his face and the sudden wringing of his hands when questioned about Iranian involvement in Iraq. It appeared he was waiting for Mike Wallace to drop the other shoe. In the portion shown last night there was no evidence of it but I do see that the Fox news website has a link to a story about Irans involvement in Iraq.
I would strongly caution anybody thinking about visiting this nutjobs blog to not do it.
/unless of course you go to some liberals house and use their computer

41 listen to the warm  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 6:16:01am

The last two of the 11 Egyptian exchange students who failed to show up at their college program were apprehended Sunday in Richmond, Va., customs officials said.

Here in Chicago, I've noticed something odd on the tv news segments about this story. I think it was NBC local news. Early in the investigation, the station put up a display showing the students' photos and names - and over the photos of the students who were located there was the word "rescued". The word was printed at an angle as to suggest it was stamped with a rubber stamp.


RESCUED?

ya right.

42 Pastorius  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 6:16:21am

Alright, what does it mean to "install a back door" in my computer?

I'm a techtard, can someone help me?

43 Mr. Willard  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 6:19:41am

Face it, nobody knows how to pronounce his name.

Accept it and you'll feel better.

/Farsi speaker needed, please, with audio link

Mr. W

44 yankee doodle  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 6:20:26am

His name is pronounced:

Ahmadoodyface

... and not only do I have no interest in clicking on this Muslim Nazi's website, but I find it appropriate that CBS, the network that sent Mary Mapes in search of phony documents, and the network that sent Dan Rather to Baghdad to interview Saddam right before the recent war, would have Mike Wallace make his customary pilgrimage into the heart of evil to do a puff piece on Ahmadoodyface.

And the KosKidz are po'd that Wallace was too TOUGH on their hero...

what a world, what a world...

45 Just_A_Grunt  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 6:20:59am

#42 Pastorius
A "backdoor" is simply a method of opening up your computer and being able to access it at anytime. Think of it as always having a surveillance camera inside your computer. It is always on, always watching and if I wanted to take control of your computer, or collect all of the information on your hard drive, or just track all of your activity I would be able to do so. Most of the time backdoors are used for malicious reasons.

46 MandyManners  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 6:21:07am

Thanks for the lessons, ya'll.

47 Murqtaad  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 6:23:39am

31 mung,

your Operating System is the interface your computer uses to interact with you, eg, windows xp pro, windows 98, 2000, 2003, mac os x, etc.

48 Kosh's Shadow  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 6:31:53am

I wonder how well secured is the computer his web site is on?

At least someone should extract his email address and put it on all the pr0n spam lists.

Reading the article, the exploit was only being tried for Israeli computers, probably trying to install something to spy on Israelis. Not likely to get into any secure computers, if reasonably up-to-date antivirus software catches it, or even if a patched IE is safe, but some reservist's home computer could then be broken into, and if he then uses it to access military email, his password and username would be stolen.

Could be great for disinformation, though - someone in the Israeli defense could allow the exploit, and send in a username/password that is used only for disinformation email.

49 WriterMom  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 6:33:03am

Mahmood I'm-A-Jihadi

(ach-ma-dina-jad)

50 Murqtaad  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 6:33:25am

Ah-mahd-in-eh-jahd

51 Laurence Simon  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 6:34:35am

Goodbye, Trojan Horse.

Hello, Persian Camel.

52 Murqtaad  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 6:35:31am

or "ah-mah-din-eh-jad"

either works

53 Pastorius  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 6:40:27am

#45 Just a Grunt,
Thanks.

54 freya4freedom  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 6:44:52am

I had a look at Armageddonjihad's blog yesterday. I use Firefox and I haven't noticed anything weird.

55 somaking  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 7:19:04am

Only a fool would use Internet Explorer.

IE is the biggest mistake in the history of the software industry.

56 Sleipnir  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 7:21:16am

Is it him, though?

Allah thinks probably not.

It could be a clever spoof, and what better way to get plenty of traffic to a site?

57 Da_Beerfreak  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 7:26:34am

#51 Laurence Simon 8/14/2006 08:34AM PDT
Goodbye, Trojan Horse.

Hello, Persian Camel. Goat.
There, fixed it for you. {;-)

58 somaking  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 7:31:02am

Note to computer illiterates: Get a book and read it.

59 mattm  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 7:50:36am

I wonder what Iran would want to do with a bunch of hijacked browsers. DoS Attack?

60 Right Side  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 8:15:54am

I use FireFox for as much Internet surfing as possible.

The problem is that there are still a lot of websites out there that aren't designed to the general W3C standards, but instead exploit specific quirks in Internet Explorer for various effects. For example, Honda's website [Link: www.honda.com...] has a neat 3D viewer feature, but it crashes FireFox.

So on occasion I'm still forced to revert to IE to view those problem websites.

61 machiavelligz  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 8:23:55am

sorry nutty Iranian dictator, I'm a Mac user and a conservative : )

62 Right Side  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 8:30:13am

#55 somaking:

Only a fool would use Internet Explorer. IE is the biggest mistake in the history of the software industry.


IE is a disaster, but it's far from the biggest disaster. The biggest disaster of all time was IBM's fundamental decision to choose Microsoft's MS-DOS operating system for their new PC's. At the time, 1979, Microsoft was a small company producing a few games and programming tools. Microsoft didn't even have an operating system to sell to IBM. So Microsoft actually swindled somebody else (Seattle Computer Products) out of a crappy operating system they had built, called QDOS. They paid SCP a lousy $40,000 for it, then they slapped a new label on it ("Microsoft MS-DOS") and resold it to IBM for millions of dollars. The rest is history. Microsoft became a gazillion-dollar company, and crappy MS-DOS and its followon Microsoft Windows became the industry standard.

At the time, IBM had another interested party: Digital Research Corporation, which actually knew how to build operating systems. If Microsoft hadn't pulled off their little trick, IBM would have gone with DRC instead of Microsoft, and the world we're living in would have been very different.

63 trigger girlie  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 8:35:32am

#4 listen to the warm


Hello to a fellow Chicago lizardoid!

64 ErnieG  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 9:13:42am

It may be a virus, and it may be divine intervention:

O Allah! Sieze the hard drives of the Zionists, their allies, and those people with the small footballs, for it is within your power. May the Blue Screen of Death™ frustrate their evil schemes. Freeze the bytes in their CPUs. Shake the ground under their monitors. Fill their mail boxes with Nigerian spam and penis enlargemant offers. Afflict them with General Protection Faults, or, um, you know, that other thing if they are using Apple, for they are within your power.
65 nuke gingrich  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 9:37:01am

related: study shows 99% of arab websites are insecure.
Tech news roundup

66 dhaundhoee  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 10:01:12am

Sounds like a recruitment drive for the Iranian Revolutionary Zombie Army. Who the heck uses IE? Its got more holes in than Europe's borders!

67 misguidedjihadi  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 11:51:51am

Domain Registered to MAHDI Ahmedinejad, i hope its not his site otherwise we are gonna see bigtime war soon... Apparently around august 22nd...

Whois ahmadinejad.ir

% Information related to 'ahmadinejad.ir'

domain: ahmadinejad.ir
remarks: (Domain Holder) Mahdi Ahmadi Nejad
remarks: (Domain Holder Address) Motahari Ave. at Raham St. Tehran, IR 1567718571
admin-c: nic38790h87
tech-c: nic38790h87
zone-c: nic38790h87
nserver: ns1.nisn.ir
nserver: ns2.nisn.ir
source: NICIR # Filtered

person: Mahdi Ahmadi Nejad
remarks: ---
address: Pasteur Sq., Pasteur St., Peresident Office
e-mail: president.irsite@gmail.com
phone: 64451
fax-no:
nic-hdl: nic38790h87
source: NICIR # Filtered

68 the_flying_pig  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 11:55:55am

Paul Craig Roberts think all Americans are gullible.

The only answer I could give the Chinese is that Americans would have been the perfect population for Mao and the Gang of Four, because Americans believe anything their government tells them.

Americans never check any facts. Who do you know, for example, who has even read the Report of the 9/11 Commission, much less checked the alleged facts reported in that document. I can answer for you. You don’t know anyone who has read the report or checked the facts.

Here's his email address and let him know what YOU think: paulcraigroberts@yahoo.com

69 MisterCookie  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 1:11:59pm

On SuSE linux over here: Achmed-Dinner-Jacket and his script kiddies can go screw themselves.

70 massachusetts republican  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 3:59:47pm

So he likes back doors...

71 freedom rings  Mon, Aug 14, 2006 4:30:43pm

Yikes, I'm doomed. Oh well. If anyone's interested, his poll was running 98% "no," then dropped down to 96% "no" after a few hours last night. A CNN report (I think) today had it running 50s-60s% "no" as I recall, meaning those more inclined to think like the big guy voted.

The question was something about was the U.S. and Israeli invasion of Lebanon designed to set off a "word" war. The guy definitely can't spell, though considering the U.N. these days, it was probably not a total Freudian slip.


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