Servers Down Again???Follow

I beleive that the day the Final Fantasy server's started to have issues is when the W32.Beagle.A@mm Virus when live to the internet world. This might be why they are doing the maintenance on their servers.

Since POL has a mailing System, it's possible that the Mass Emails from the virus bogged down their system.

Below is the information about the Virus.

W32.Beagle.A@mm is a mass-mailing worm that accesses remote Web sites and sends email to any addresses it finds. The email has the following characteristics:

Subject: Hi
Filename: <Random>.exe
Filesize: 15,872 bytes

The worm will only work until January 28th, 2004 (see note at step 1 below).

Some customers have reported that Trojan.Mitglieder.C has been discovered on computers infected with W32.Beagle.A@mm.

Symantec Security Response has developed a removal tool to clean the infections of W32.Beagle.A@mm.


Also Known As: I-Worm.Bagle [Kaspersky], WORM_BAGLE.A [Trend]

Type: Worm
Infection Length: 15,872 bytes



Systems Affected: Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP
Systems Not Affected: DOS, Linux, Macintosh, Microsoft IIS, OS/2, UNIX, Windows 3.x

Servers should be back up at the following times

12:00 (12:00 PM) PST
13:00 (1:00 PM) MST
14:00 (2:00 PM) CST
15:00 (3:00 PM) EST
16:00 (4:00 PM) Atlantic Time (Canada)
20:00 (8:00 PM) GMT (London)

Hope this helps

Just because the servers are up, doesn't mean they aren't still testing them. The page is generated dynamically and probably just indicates the results from SNMP probes to the servers. While technically they are up, they might not yet be available.

Edited, Tue Jan 20 13:10:51 2004 by subvert

Yeah there was a problem yesterday. W Ron crashed while playing. Was down for about 10 mins. Now thats my server(Bahamut). Could it have been the only one? Maybe, but since that was the first time I've seen a whole section go down, I bet its not that good.

PlayOnline Technical Difficulties Recovery Notice (1/20)

We have experienced login issues in some areas of our PlayOnline service. Those issues have been resolved. We apologize for any inconvenience.

[Date & Time]
From 1/20/2004 8:00 to 10:00 (PST)

and..........

Emergency All World Maintenance Completed Notice (1/20)

The emergency all world maintenance has now been completed. We apologize for any inconvenience.

[Date & Time]
From 1/20/2004 8:00 to 1/20/2004 10:15 (PST)