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Here is the shots I was able to take at the Texoma and OKC Bulldog Club Speciality. I am sure I missed a few while I was on Bucket Bitch duty. 
Thursday
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tony_sodaro/sets/72157622282847637/
Friday
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tony_sodaro/sets/72157622407934458/
Saturday
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tony_sodaro/sets/72157622287869609/
Sunday
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tony_sodaro/sets/72157622299701637/
Thanks,
SodaroBulldogs
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Tony Sodaro's Photo's
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Here is what I have posted from the show in New Orleans.
Bulldog Club of Louisiana Thursday
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tony_sodaro/sets/72157621803248163/
Bulldog Club of Louisiana Friday
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tony_sodaro/sets/72157621928059320/
Bulldog Club of Louisiana Saturday
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tony_sodaro/sets/72157621803814835/
/Tony
http://sodarobulldogs.com
Sodaro's Righteous Lily of Loki went Winners Dog and Best of Winners at the Cajun Classic Cluster, Lafayette, LA on March 31st, 2009. We would like to thank Judge, Mrs Catherine S DiGiacomo for recognizing our exceptional boy. http://www.sodarobulldogs.com/sires.html
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Sodaro's Hurricane Full of Venom "Vinnie" went Winners Dog, Best of Winners and Best of Breed at the Cajun Classic Cluster, Lafayette, LA on March 29th, 2009. We would like to thank Judge, Mrs Houston (Toddie) Clark for recognizing this exception boy. We want to wish him luck in Group today! http://www.hurricanesouthbulldogs.net/males.html
Sodaro's Mini Cruiser of Jades "C.J." went Winners Bitch and Best of Opposties at the Cajun Classic Cluster, Lafayette, LA on March 29th, 2009. We would like to thank Judge, Mrs Houston (Toddie) Clark for recognizing this exception girl. http://www.jadesk9s.com/girls.html
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Just so everyone quits asking!
By Ryan Naraine
Our friends at F-Secure have put together a very valuable FAQ [f-secure.com] on the Conficker worm to help strip away the hype around the April 1st date. It's a must read.
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001636.html
| Thursday, March 26, 2009 |
| Posted by Mikko @ 14:32 GMT | | |
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Q: I heard something really bad is going to happen on the Internet on April 1st! Will it?
A: No, not really.
Q: Seriously, the Conficker worm is going to do something bad on April 1st, right?
A: The Conficker aka Downadup worm is going to change it's operation a bit, but that's unlikely to cause anything visible on April 1st.
Q: So, what will it do on April 1st?
A: So far, Conficker has been polling 250 different domain names every day to download and run an update program. On April 1st, the latest version of Conficker will start to poll 50,000 domains a day to do the same thing.
Q: The latest version? There are different versions out there?
A: Yes, and the latest version is not the most common. Most of the infected machines are infected with the B variant, which became widespread in early January. With B variant, nothing happens on April 1st.
Q: I just checked, and my Windows machine is clean. Is something going to happen to me on April 1st?
A: No.
Q: I'm running a Mac, is something going to happen to me?
A: No.
Q: So… this means that the attackers could use this download channel to run any program on all the machines?
A: On all the machines that are infected with the latest version of the worm, yes.
Q: But what's this peer-to-peer functionality I've heard about?
A: The worm has some peer-to-peer functionality which means that infected computers can communicate with each other without the need for a server. This enables the worm to update itself without the need for any of the 250 or 50,000 domains.
Q: But doesn't that mean that if the bad guys wanted to run something on those machines, they don't need to wait for April 1st?
A: Yes! Which is another reason why it's unlikely anything major will happen on April 1st.
Q: Is there going to be media hype?
A: Oh yes. Like there always is when a widespread worm has a date trigger. Think cases like Michelangelo (1992), CIH (1999), Sobig (2003), Mydoom (2004) and Blackworm (2006).
Q: But in those cases nothing much happened even though everybody expected something to happen!
A: Exactly.
Q: So, should I keep my PC shut down on April 1st?
A: No. You should make sure it's clean before April 1st.
Q: Can I change the date on my machine to protect me?
A: No. The worm does not use the system clock to check the date.
Q: I'm confused. How can you know beforehand that there will be a global virus attack on April 1st? There must be a conspiracy here!
A: Yes, you're confused. There is not going to be a "global virus attack". The machines that are already infected might do something new on April 1st. We know this because we have reverse engineered the worm code and can see that this is what it has been programmed to do.
Q: Would the downloaded program execute with admin privileges?
A: Yes, with local admin rights. Which is pretty bad.
Q: And they could download that program not just on April 1st but also on any day after that?
A: Correct. So there's no reason why they wouldn't do it on, say, April 5th instead of April 1st.
Q: Ok, they could run any program. To do what?
A: We don't know what they are planning to do, if anything. Of course, they could steal your data, send spam, do DDoS, et cetera. But we don't know.
Q: They? Who are they? Who's behind this worm?
A: We don't know that either. But they seem to be pretty professional in what they do.
Q: Professional? Is it true that Conficker is using the MD6 hash algorithm?
A: Yes. This was probably one of the first real-world cases where this new algorithm was used.
Q: Why can't you just infect a PC, set the clock to April 1st and see what happens?
A: That's not the way it works. The worm connects to certain websites to get the time-of-day.
Q: Oh yeah? Then shut down the websites where it gets the time-of-day and the problem will go away!
A: Can't. These are websites like google.com, yahoo.com and facebook.com.
Q: But surely you could spoof google.com in the lab to get a honeypot machine to connect to a download site today!
A: Sure. And the download sites do not have anything to download, today. They might, on April 1st. Or they might not.
Q: Now I'm worried. How do I know if I'm infected?
A: Try to surf to www.f-secure.com. If you can't reach our website you might be infected, as Downadup/Conficker blocks access to security vendor's websites. Don't tell anybody, but users who can't access f-secure.com because of this can surf to www.fsecure.com instead.
Q: Where does the name "Conficker" come from?
A: Conficker is an anagram of sorts from trafficconverter – a website to which the first variant was connecting.
Q: Why does the worm have two names – Downadup and Conficker?
A: It was found at about the same time by multiple security companies and therefore got multiple names. Today most companies use the name Conficker. There's further confusion about the variant letters among vendors. We're all sorry for that.
Q: How many computers are currently infected by Downadup/Conficker?
A: About 1-2 million. How many of those are infected with the latest version? We don't have an exact count.
Q: How is the industry reacting to all this?
A: We reacted by setting up the Conficker Working Group. Members include security vendors (including us), registrars, research units and so on.
Q: I want more technical details on the worm.
A: Sure. Here's our description, and here's SRI's excellent writeup.
Q: When was the first variant of Downadup/Conficker discovered?
A: It was found on November 20, 2008.
Q: More than four months ago? I want a time line on what happened when.
A: Byron Acohido has one.
Q: Is F-Secure able to detect and block this malware?
A: Yes.
Q: Do you have cleaning tool available?
A: Yes, and it's free. Click here to get it.
Q: Are you going to follow this through?
A: Yes. Stay tuned for updates.
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