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hallucienate wrote:yeah, but all the old one's that give me nightmares.

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mugabe wrote:

hallucienate wrote:yeah, but all the old one's that give me nightmares.

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yay! i did have just darn got that there award from mugabe.

CellThree wrote:

Quiff Boy wrote:

Angelchild wrote:On the topic of viruses can I ask if anyone else here has had the fake PayPal one which is doing the rounds?
Thanks!

i get about 10 a day

thank christ for norton anti-virus

I'm getting about 5-10 a day as well. But it's nice to get mail though isn't it?

AVG picks up and quarantines the virus with no fuss.

Thanks chaps
I thought it was just me who was getting them.
Thank heavens for Norton too

Geek Alert!!!!!!!!!!!!

Try subscribing to MessageLabs (or get your company to - its a bit pricey for the home user) they Kill EVERYTHING - nothing gets thru....

btw - $250,000 dollars reward from SCO if you know of any info leading to the arrest of the devious Romanian Student who let it loose from a certain campus labs.....

God bless the Register.

Real Geeks don't Grass....hmmmm tempting though!!

Nuff Said.

I get about 200 + emails a day at home - then again I have 12 home based Email Addys.

Dont Panic I have Symantec / Norton virus softare running all the time!

I have had the false "pay pal" email and I always get a few "completely blank" emails - which do appear to contain anything - bad or good!

The thing I hate most is the "university degree on line" mails and the mails that state that you can "unsubscribe" just to find a dead URL! - I think there are laws against this sort of thing!

I used to get loads of "Junk" to my 2 MSN / Hotmail accounts but Microsoft appear to have "pulled their finger out" for once.

markfiend wrote:I keep getting Mailer-Daemon "undeliverable mail" emails. The b*****ds seem to be spoofing my address

TOTALLY OFF TOPIC...

I love your avatar where can I get a cookie cutter like that?

cyn wrote:a cookie cutter

What does that mean?

dear me some people don't have any idea.... no wonder viruses are so common that sysadmins like myself end up watching 300 blocked copies appear at the company I work for in ONE day.... I feel for u too mh... but you should be using at least 3-level gateway, exchange server AND desktop protection, centrally managed by something like ePo or equiv.. that way floppy's won't matter either

If you think a firewall protects you in any way from getting a virus... get ya coat.

If you think havng an anti-virus product running all the time means you'll never get a virus.... get ya coat.

If you think buying a bells-and-whistles expensive AV product is any better than using a free home-user product like Avast.... get ya coat.

If you think Linux is loads and loads more secure than M$ Windows.... get ya coat....

Finally - if you've got your coat and find you DO have MYDOOM on the way out... here's a free removal tool:

http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/

AndyTheGoth wrote: The thing I hate most is the "university degree on line" mails and the mails that state that you can "unsubscribe" just to find a dead URL! - I think there are laws against this sort of thing!

The "unsubscribe" feature is there for the spammer to confirm that your email address is valid. You then move from the "possible" spam lists to the "definate" spam lists - and get much much more spam....

MAtT wrote:

AndyTheGoth wrote: The thing I hate most is the "university degree on line" mails and the mails that state that you can "unsubscribe" just to find a dead URL! - I think there are laws against this sort of thing!

The "unsubscribe" feature is there for the spammer to confirm that your email address is valid. You then move from the "possible" spam lists to the "definate" spam lists - and get much much more spam....

@ MatT - I do know about that - spending as much time as I do on the web - thanks anyway!

Viruses are only about number 3 or 4 on my "list of stuff that damages the network" anyway. Oracle Java-based webforms, Lexmark Print Servers and Lotus Notes are way above them.

But - while you're busy trying to get a virus out (and if you do think you'll never get one in you're only fooling yourself) do be nice and make sure that it's not going to spread from your organisation as well.

At least now I can say that I have a cast iron strategy in place for next time - and there will definitely be a next time. Even if you're running Linux on an enterprise network (God help you if something goes wrong on a m*****n-critical server and needs to be fixed) you're always going to have one or two vulnerable machines around, and that's all it takes to kill your bandwidth.

mh wrote:Viruses are only about number 3 or 4 on my "list of stuff that damages the network" anyway. Oracle Java-based webforms, Lexmark Print Servers and Lotus Notes are way above them.

lmao

Thrash Harry wrote:

cyn wrote:a cookie cutter

What does that mean?

I have a warped sence of humor. But his avatar looks like a spinning sister cookie cutter.

cyn wrote:his avatar looks like a spinning sister cookie cutter.

I gottit cyn

Red Sunsets wrote:

cyn wrote:his avatar looks like a spinning sister cookie cutter.

I gottit cyn

We could make black sugar cookies.

Got this at work today -

From: TMAS Technical Department
Sent: Tuesday, February 3, 2004 10:25 PM
To: Tmas Technical Bulletin
Subject: Technical Update Virus Alert

TMAS Technical Department are concerned with recent activity virus
infected
email's which are in circulation. We intend to release upto date
information
relating to new viruses.

**W32.Novarg.A@mm Virus**

Also Known As: W32/Mydoom@MM [McAfee], WORM_MIMAIL.R [Trend],
Win32.Mydoom.A
[Computer Associates], W32/Mydoom-A [Sophos], I-Worm.Novarg [Kaspersky]

W32.Novarg.A@mm is a mass-mailing worm that arrives as an attachment with
the file extension .bat, .cmd, .exe, .pif, .scr, or .zip.

W32.Novarg.A@mm is a High-Outbreak Risk mass-mailing worm flooding email
servers worldwide. When run, the worm steals email addresses from the
infected machine and also automatically generates random email addresses
for
propagation. This email generation engine is similar to technologies
spammers use to generate addresses for spam email campaigns.

W32.Novarg.A@mm generates emails with a spoofed From: field, so incoming
messages may appear to be from people you know. Furthermore, the subject
line and message body are both randomly generated by the worm.

W32.Novarg.A@mm also attempts to open a port on an infected PC, allowing a
remote hacker to gain control of the system.

What are the common subject lines, attachment names and message content
associated with W32.Novarg.A@mm:

Subject:
Randomly generated

Attachment:
Randomly generated

The icon used by the file tries to make it appear as if the attachment is
a
text file.

From:
Spoofed -- may appear to be from someone you know.

Body:
Varied: (examples)

The message cannot be represented in 7-bit ASCII encoding and has been
sent
as a binary attachment.

The message contains Unicode characters and has been sent as a binary
attachment.

Mail transaction failed. Partial message is available.

Systems Affected: Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me,
Windows
NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP

Systems Not Affected: DOS, Linux, Macintosh Classic & OS X, OS/2, UNIX,
Windows 3.x

Red Sunsets wrote:TMAS Technical Department are concerned with recent activity virus infected email's which are in circulation. We intend to release upto date information relating to new viruses.

How confidence-inspiring.

mugabe wrote: How confidence-inspiring.

That's because they're an Apple dealer.

we recently had a mail from tech support asking everyone to clear out their sent items folders as the exchange server was filling up

presumably the 100 quid required to buy a 120gb hard drive was too much for their budget?

Not really. As an Exchange admin (among other things) I can assure you that the problem is more likely grounded in a huge MDB file on the server. It can take 5% or 50% of the available disk space, but that mother is still gonna be unreliable. I prefer to keep loads of smaller Exchange stores with an upper size limit of about 5GB, helps prevent corruption too cos the old JET technology is not so good.

Looks like my email address is being spoofed. Just got a "cannot deliver" message in my intray this morning.

This better not turn into something annoying...

I have got 2 returned mails to my myheartland-account these days while I had not sent any e-mails to anybody - what does it mean?

(Sorry I'm not just an idiot, I'm an idiot attacked by an alien - i. e. a flu - so I'm more stupid than just an idiot.)

pikkrong wrote:I'm more stupid than just an idiot.)

class / IQ
-----------
idiot / below 29
imbecile / 30-49
moron / 50-69

Don't forget to breathe.

pikkrong wrote:what does it mean?

Bad Karma Bekons.