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Religions > Atheism |
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"Mark K. Bilbo" |
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25 Jan 2005 01:10:41 PM |
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OT: More viruses - FAKE Microsoft "patch" |
Another one of those fake "patches" seems to be making the rounds. I'm
assuming most of the folks here already know not to believe a "patch" that
shows up out of the blue, claiming to be from Microsoft but thought I'd
mention it anyway. The virus comes with an HTML page copied from an MS
support page, trying to fool you into running it.
I'm also seeing several "returned mail" notices from places I've never
heard of. These also carry the virus, usually in a zip file.
There's probably more going on out there than I'm seeing as I do so much
blocking (such as all of China and Korea are locked off my email system, I
bounce them off the firewall). That first batch must have just been the
leading edge as I woke to find several had come in through Japanese
servers.
And given I saw at least one that was allegedly from a ng member, watch
out for email that *seems to be from another regular. It may be a forge.
Beware of unexpected attachments no matter who they claim to be from...
--
Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
Alt-atheism website at: http://www.alt-atheism.org
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"Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."
-- Seneca the Younger
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| User: "Ike" |
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| Title: Re: More viruses - FAKE Microsoft "patch" |
26 Jan 2005 01:39:35 AM |
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"Mark K. Bilbo" <alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote in message
news:gOqdnaZV-vOW2WvcRVn-hQ@megapath.net...
Another one of those fake "patches" seems to be making the rounds. I'm
assuming most of the folks here already know not to believe a "patch" that
shows up out of the blue, claiming to be from Microsoft but thought I'd
mention it anyway. The virus comes with an HTML page copied from an MS
support page, trying to fool you into running it.
I'm also seeing several "returned mail" notices from places I've never
heard of. These also carry the virus, usually in a zip file.
There's probably more going on out there than I'm seeing as I do so much
blocking (such as all of China and Korea are locked off my email system, I
bounce them off the firewall). That first batch must have just been the
leading edge as I woke to find several had come in through Japanese
servers.
And given I saw at least one that was allegedly from a ng member, watch
out for email that *seems to be from another regular. It may be a forge.
Beware of unexpected attachments no matter who they claim to be from...
I've been getting these for months. The reason I get so much junk is that I
have a website with my email address on it, which I won't name here, because
I am not a crass self-promoter, and literally thousands of people have my
return address in their emailboxes. Some of those people get infected with a
worm and send out mail with my return adress forged on it, to a non-existent
random address.. It bounces back to me.The first time it started to happen,
it took me a month to figure out that the people with forged addresses that
were sending me viruses might not even be infected themselves. Right now I
am getting at least 10-12 a day. At least now my ISP automatically deletes
the attachments so that my mailbox doesn't get maxed out, which they didn't
use to do so in the olden days, so that every day I would have to go into
webmail and clean out my mailbox not to go over the limit.
Every so often I run a complete scan on my hard drives, but only found
infected files once.
--
Take that! (Whack) And that! (Whack!)
And that! (Whack!) And that! (Whack!) And that! (Whack!) And that! (Whack!)
And that! (Whack!) And that! (Whack!) And that! (Whack!)
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| User: "Dubh Ghall" |
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27 Jan 2005 11:54:17 AM |
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On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 01:39:35 GMT, "Ike" <accordiondoc@mindspring.com> wrote:
"Mark K. Bilbo" <alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote in message
news:gOqdnaZV-vOW2WvcRVn-hQ@megapath.net...
Another one of those fake "patches" seems to be making the rounds. I'm
assuming most of the folks here already know not to believe a "patch" that
shows up out of the blue, claiming to be from Microsoft but thought I'd
mention it anyway. The virus comes with an HTML page copied from an MS
support page, trying to fool you into running it.
snip for b-width.
I've been getting these for months. The reason I get so much junk is that I
have a website with my email address on it,
Snip for b-width.
I don't know where you get it all from.
I get none, AFAIK.
I never use the email address my server gives me, never hand it out, and never
even check it for mail.
I use Hotmail as my main email address, and anything I do not specify as safe,
automatically goes in the junk mail folder.
I check the junk folder about once a week, in case I have asked for something,
and it has gone there, but that is it. Anything that I do not transfer to my In
Box, gets automatically deleted after about 14 days.
For anything that needs a server supplied address, I have a throw away
Freeserve, pay as you go, dial up account, which I look in about once every six
months.
No spam, no email virii, no scams, and no wockin furries. (:-)
--
Puck Greenman
The spelling Like any opinion stated here
purely my own
#162 BAAWA Knight.
Plonked by Rob Duncan
January 27th
Na bister 500,000
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| User: "Ike" |
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| Title: Re: More viruses - FAKE Microsoft "patch" |
28 Jan 2005 02:06:31 AM |
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"Dubh Ghall" <puck@pooks.hill.fey> wrote in message
news:cpjhv0t43nisu0e7cfgdnav4aptoane6cf@4ax.com...
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 01:39:35 GMT, "Ike" <accordiondoc@mindspring.com>
wrote:
"Mark K. Bilbo" <alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote in message
news:gOqdnaZV-vOW2WvcRVn-hQ@megapath.net...
Another one of those fake "patches" seems to be making the rounds. I'm
assuming most of the folks here already know not to believe a "patch"
that
shows up out of the blue, claiming to be from Microsoft but thought I'd
mention it anyway. The virus comes with an HTML page copied from an MS
support page, trying to fool you into running it.
snip for b-width.
I've been getting these for months. The reason I get so much junk is that
I
have a website with my email address on it,
Snip for b-width.
I don't know where you get it all from.
I get none, AFAIK.
I never use the email address my server gives me, never hand it out, and
never
even check it for mail.
I use Hotmail as my main email address, and anything I do not specify as
safe,
automatically goes in the junk mail folder.
I check the junk folder about once a week, in case I have asked for
something,
and it has gone there, but that is it. Anything that I do not transfer to
my In
Box, gets automatically deleted after about 14 days.
For anything that needs a server supplied address, I have a throw away
Freeserve, pay as you go, dial up account, which I look in about once
every six
months.
No spam, no email virii, no scams, and no wockin furries. (:-)
The reason I do it this way, with my email address on the website, is that
it makes it easy for people to ask me questions without filling out a CGI
form. I delete most of the spam without reading it, since the subject line
gives it away. I spend less than 5 minutes a day deleting spam which is now
about 100 a day. The mail I want, I can 99% tell by the subject line it is
about my business of repairing accordions. If the subject line is not
clearly spam, but not clearly business, then the sender address is looked
at. Each spam message takes less than 5 seconds to be identified. I tried
several antispam programs but the only one that didn't waste more time than
the spam was Cloudmark, which I didn't want to spend $39.95 a year for, sine
spam is easy for me to deal with.
I think people should stop worrying about spam and get a life.
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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| Title: Re: More viruses - FAKE Microsoft "patch" |
29 Jan 2005 08:28:58 PM |
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On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 02:06:31 GMT, "Ike" <accordiondoc@mindspring.com>
said in alt.atheism:
I tried
several antispam programs but the only one that didn't waste more time than
the spam was Cloudmark, which I didn't want to spend $39.95 a year for, sine
spam is easy for me to deal with.
Have you tried POPFile? Just a thought.
--
"I don't try to imagine a God; it suffices to stand in awe of the structure of the world
insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it."
- Letter to S. Flesch, April 16, 1954; Einstein Archive 30-1154
(random sig, produced by SigChanger)
rukbat at verizon dot net
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| User: "Ike" |
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| Title: Re: More viruses - FAKE Microsoft "patch" |
30 Jan 2005 12:09:47 AM |
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"Al Klein" <rukbat@pern.invalid> wrote in message
news:tesnv0dha6394ofrbijiqrrlpj2lakt1vu@4ax.com...
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 02:06:31 GMT, "Ike" <accordiondoc@mindspring.com>
said in alt.atheism:
I tried
several antispam programs but the only one that didn't waste more time
than
the spam was Cloudmark, which I didn't want to spend $39.95 a year for,
sine
spam is easy for me to deal with.
Have you tried POPFile? Just a thought.
i have given up on antispam programs since the time it takes to install and
configure them is more than the time it takes to delete spam, or else the
fee is more than the time is worth to delete spam.
There is an interesting technology called "greylisting" which it seems, has
to be implemented on the server side, which challenges spam by sending a
reply to check for spoofed headers and the like, which is supposed to cut
into the bandwidth of the server sending the spam, making spam more costly
to send in terms of bandwidth. I glanced over an article about it, which I
think was in Information Week, and I'm not sureI understand the details of
the technique, but if spam is ever to be controlled, this type of technology
would seem to me, to hold some promise. It would have to be widely
implemented to have much of an effect on the spam industry. Some companies
are using it.
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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| Title: Re: More viruses - FAKE Microsoft "patch" |
30 Jan 2005 01:04:00 AM |
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On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 00:09:47 GMT, "Ike" <accordiondoc@mindspring.com>
said in alt.atheism:
"Al Klein" <rukbat@pern.invalid> wrote in message
news:tesnv0dha6394ofrbijiqrrlpj2lakt1vu@4ax.com...
Have you tried POPFile? Just a thought.
i have given up on antispam programs since the time it takes to install and
configure them
A few minutes. The program learns as you use it - and you don't have
to do anything to use it. You just set up buckets in the program and
buckets in your email program. Email gets tossed to the appropriate
bucket, one of which can be the bit bucket
is more than the time it takes to delete spam, or else the
fee is more than the time is worth to delete spam.
$0.00
--
If you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an
ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish
the useful ideas from the worthless ones
- Carl Sagan, 1987.
(random sig, produced by SigChanger)
rukbat at verizon dot net
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| User: "Ike" |
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| Title: Re: More viruses - FAKE Microsoft "patch" |
31 Jan 2005 02:20:33 AM |
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"Al Klein" <rukbat@pern.invalid> wrote in message
news:necov0pjs50nsv0ep0i6b3l20605a5ukd8@4ax.com...
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 00:09:47 GMT, "Ike" <accordiondoc@mindspring.com>
said in alt.atheism:
"Al Klein" <rukbat@pern.invalid> wrote in message
news:tesnv0dha6394ofrbijiqrrlpj2lakt1vu@4ax.com...
Have you tried POPFile? Just a thought.
i have given up on antispam programs since the time it takes to install
and
configure them
A few minutes. The program learns as you use it - and you don't have
to do anything to use it. You just set up buckets in the program and
buckets in your email program. Email gets tossed to the appropriate
bucket, one of which can be the bit bucket
is more than the time it takes to delete spam, or else the
fee is more than the time is worth to delete spam.
$0.00
You may be right about that program, but I have had too many programs take
up my time. So I have decided to just enjoy the spam which I speed-read in
about the time it takes to vanish into the deleted items folder. I also
enjoy deleting hundreds of spam messages en masse.
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| User: "Dubh Ghall" |
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| Title: Re: More viruses - FAKE Microsoft "patch" |
28 Jan 2005 11:12:15 PM |
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On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 02:06:31 GMT, "Ike" <accordiondoc@mindspring.com> wrote:
No spam, no email virii, no scams, and no wockin furries. (:-)
The reason I do it this way, with my email address on the website, is that
it makes it easy for people to ask me questions without filling out a CGI
form. I delete most of the spam without reading it, since the subject line
gives it away. I spend less than 5 minutes a day deleting spam which is now
about 100 a day. The mail I want, I can 99% tell by the subject line it is
about my business of repairing accordions. If the subject line is not
clearly spam, but not clearly business, then the sender address is looked
at. Each spam message takes less than 5 seconds to be identified. I tried
several antispam programs but the only one that didn't waste more time than
the spam was Cloudmark, which I didn't want to spend $39.95 a year for, sine
spam is easy for me to deal with.
I think people should stop worrying about spam and get a life.
Ah, if you are running a business, then I suppose you have to do it that way
Having retired, I don't even operate a web site, as such, any more.
I do make use of the storage facility of my ISPs freebee web site, for storing
passwords and such, but that is all.
I agree that getting all het up about spam, is a wasted effort. Most people
know who they are in contact with, and which news sheets etc, e,g, Black Vault,
(plug plug) they are subscribed to. The rest, as you say, is the work of
seconds; Well perhaps a few minutes. (:-)
--
Puck Greenman
The spelling Like any opinion stated here
purely my own
#162 BAAWA Knight.
Plonked by Rob Duncan
January 27th
Na bister 500,000
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| User: "Ike" |
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| Title: Re: More viruses - FAKE Microsoft "patch" |
29 Jan 2005 01:52:53 AM |
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"Dubh Ghall" <puck@pooks.hill.fey> wrote in message
news:14hlv0ps6vd6h1p0pu622v9lapd74u08a8@4ax.com...
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 02:06:31 GMT, "Ike" <accordiondoc@mindspring.com>
wrote:
No spam, no email virii, no scams, and no wockin furries. (:-)
The reason I do it this way, with my email address on the website, is
that
it makes it easy for people to ask me questions without filling out a CGI
form. I delete most of the spam without reading it, since the subject
line
gives it away. I spend less than 5 minutes a day deleting spam which is
now
about 100 a day. The mail I want, I can 99% tell by the subject line it
is
about my business of repairing accordions. If the subject line is not
clearly spam, but not clearly business, then the sender address is looked
at. Each spam message takes less than 5 seconds to be identified. I tried
several antispam programs but the only one that didn't waste more time
than
the spam was Cloudmark, which I didn't want to spend $39.95 a year for,
sine
spam is easy for me to deal with.
I think people should stop worrying about spam and get a life.
Ah, if you are running a business, then I suppose you have to do it that
way
Having retired, I don't even operate a web site, as such, any more.
I do make use of the storage facility of my ISPs freebee web site, for
storing
passwords and such, but that is all.
I agree that getting all het up about spam, is a wasted effort. Most
people
know who they are in contact with, and which news sheets etc, e,g, Black
Vault,
(plug plug) they are subscribed to. The rest, as you say, is the work of
seconds; Well perhaps a few minutes. (:-)
i feel vindicated.
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| User: "Colin Day" |
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| Title: Re: OT: More viruses - FAKE Microsoft "patch" |
26 Jan 2005 01:26:24 AM |
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Mark K. Bilbo wrote:
Another one of those fake "patches" seems to be making the rounds. I'm
assuming most of the folks here already know not to believe a "patch" that
shows up out of the blue, claiming to be from Microsoft but thought I'd
mention it anyway. The virus comes with an HTML page copied from an MS
support page, trying to fool you into running it.
Yeah, I've seen those. But I figured they wouldn't work on Linux.
Colin Day
aa #1500
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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26 Jan 2005 05:00:05 AM |
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In our last episode <41F70837.2070701@sc.rr.com>, Colin Day lumbered into
the room and mumbled:
Mark K. Bilbo wrote:
Another one of those fake "patches" seems to be making the rounds. I'm
assuming most of the folks here already know not to believe a "patch"
that shows up out of the blue, claiming to be from Microsoft but thought
I'd mention it anyway. The virus comes with an HTML page copied from an
MS support page, trying to fool you into running it.
Yeah, I've seen those. But I figured they wouldn't work on Linux.
They don't. But I'm seeing a surge lately that made me think it might be
worth mentioning for the MS users on the ng.
With all the blocking I do, if I'm seeing them at all, it means there
could be another wave of them starting up...
--
Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
Alt-atheism website at: http://www.alt-atheism.org
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"Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."
-- Seneca the Younger
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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26 Jan 2005 12:40:10 AM |
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On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 07:10:41 -0600, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> said in alt.atheism:
I'm also seeing several "returned mail" notices from places I've never
heard of. These also carry the virus, usually in a zip file.
These can be from legit email servers, bouncing viruses supposedly
sent by you, ala what Earl did about a year ago.
--
"Atheism is the world of reality, it is reason, it is freedom. Atheism is
human concern, and intellectual honesty to a degree that the religious mind
cannot begin to understand. And yet it is more than this. Atheism is not an
old religion, it is not a new and coming religion, in fact it is not, and
never has been, a religion at all. The definition of Atheism is magnificent in
its simplicity: Atheism is merely the bed-rock of sanity in a world of
madness."
[Atheism: An Affirmative View, by Emmett F. Fields]
(random sig, produced by SigChanger)
rukbat at verizon dot net
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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| Title: Re: OT: More viruses - FAKE Microsoft "patch" |
26 Jan 2005 05:00:58 AM |
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In our last episode <alpdv0papsomu1jd339o43ghf9ltpd1fgr@4ax.com>, Al Klein
lumbered into the room and mumbled:
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 07:10:41 -0600, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> said in alt.atheism:
I'm also seeing several "returned mail" notices from places I've never
heard of. These also carry the virus, usually in a zip file.
These can be from legit email servers, bouncing viruses supposedly sent by
you, ala what Earl did about a year ago.
Not these. They're not actual bounces, just claim to be.
--
Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
Alt-atheism website at: http://www.alt-atheism.org
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"Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."
-- Seneca the Younger
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| User: "Christopher A. Lee" |
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| Title: Re: OT: More viruses - FAKE Microsoft "patch" |
26 Jan 2005 08:50:01 AM |
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On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:00:58 -0600, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote:
In our last episode <alpdv0papsomu1jd339o43ghf9ltpd1fgr@4ax.com>, Al Klein
lumbered into the room and mumbled:
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 07:10:41 -0600, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> said in alt.atheism:
I'm also seeing several "returned mail" notices from places I've never
heard of. These also carry the virus, usually in a zip file.
These can be from legit email servers, bouncing viruses supposedly sent by
you, ala what Earl did about a year ago.
Not these. They're not actual bounces, just claim to be.
When Puke did it, you could tell the bounces - they were the ones that
didn't have the 140k attachment.
I don't think I can ever forgive Puke for that. My 20mb at the ISP was
filling up in less than an hour and regular email was being bounced.
Including e-bills and important personal stuff.
His whining that he didn't mean to click on the attachment, instead of
apologising, made his behaviour worse.
It took a long time to get everything back to normal.
And all the time the morons at my ISP were telling me to keep my
antivirus s/w up to date. It took them a couple of weeks of repeated
frustrated calls to realise I was on the receiving end of a denial of
service attack rather than infected myself.
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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| Title: Re: OT: More viruses - FAKE Microsoft "patch" |
26 Jan 2005 02:06:25 PM |
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In our last episode <l1mev05p0jhtmkuqfifkv3onlamnmgmdkp@4ax.com>,
Christopher A. Lee lumbered into the room and mumbled:
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:00:58 -0600, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote:
In our last episode <alpdv0papsomu1jd339o43ghf9ltpd1fgr@4ax.com>, Al
Klein lumbered into the room and mumbled:
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 07:10:41 -0600, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> said in alt.atheism:
I'm also seeing several "returned mail" notices from places I've never
heard of. These also carry the virus, usually in a zip file.
These can be from legit email servers, bouncing viruses supposedly sent
by you, ala what Earl did about a year ago.
Not these. They're not actual bounces, just claim to be.
When Puke did it, you could tell the bounces - they were the ones that
didn't have the 140k attachment.
I don't think I can ever forgive Puke for that. My 20mb at the ISP was
filling up in less than an hour and regular email was being bounced.
Including e-bills and important personal stuff.
His whining that he didn't mean to click on the attachment, instead of
apologising, made his behaviour worse.
Being Christian means never having to admit you're wrong eh?
It took a long time to get everything back to normal.
And all the time the morons at my ISP were telling me to keep my antivirus
s/w up to date. It took them a couple of weeks of repeated frustrated
calls to realise I was on the receiving end of a denial of service attack
rather than infected myself.
Sounds like they're just not getting any smarter out there...
--
Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
Alt-atheism website at: http://www.alt-atheism.org
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"Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."
-- Seneca the Younger
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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| Title: Re: OT: More viruses - FAKE Microsoft "patch" |
26 Jan 2005 08:48:24 PM |
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On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 03:50:01 -0500, Christopher A. Lee
<calee@optonline.net> said in alt.atheism:
And all the time the morons at my ISP were telling me to keep my
antivirus s/w up to date. It took them a couple of weeks of repeated
frustrated calls to realise I was on the receiving end of a denial of
service attack rather than infected myself.
Reason one that I almost never talk to the first person I get at tech
support.
--
"If we really know Truth, we do not fear hearing falsehoods or half-truths; if we are not sure of the truth - we shudder and try to shout down every utterance." - A. J. Mims
(random sig, produced by SigChanger)
rukbat at verizon dot net
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| User: "" |
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26 Jan 2005 12:08:45 AM |
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On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 07:10:41 -0600, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote:
Another one of those fake "patches" seems to be making the rounds. I'm
assuming most of the folks here already know not to believe a "patch" that
shows up out of the blue, claiming to be from Microsoft but thought I'd
mention it anyway. The virus comes with an HTML page copied from an MS
support page, trying to fool you into running it.
I'm also seeing several "returned mail" notices from places I've never
heard of. These also carry the virus, usually in a zip file.
There's probably more going on out there than I'm seeing as I do so much
blocking (such as all of China and Korea are locked off my email system, I
bounce them off the firewall). That first batch must have just been the
leading edge as I woke to find several had come in through Japanese
servers.
And given I saw at least one that was allegedly from a ng member, watch
out for email that *seems to be from another regular. It may be a forge.
Beware of unexpected attachments no matter who they claim to be from...
Perhaps the news' "pc expert" was right: She said that many people
will get computers for Christmas, go directly online without
protection and be loaded with viruses in about 4 minutes. (They did
tests and about 4 minutes was average)
drift
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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| Title: Re: OT: More viruses - FAKE Microsoft "patch" |
26 Jan 2005 12:38:04 AM |
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In our last episode <bnndv0hi839kmmgl431qtiujak583o7nrt@4ax.com>, drift
lumbered into the room and mumbled:
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 07:10:41 -0600, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote:
Another one of those fake "patches" seems to be making the rounds. I'm
assuming most of the folks here already know not to believe a "patch"
that shows up out of the blue, claiming to be from Microsoft but thought
I'd mention it anyway. The virus comes with an HTML page copied from an
MS support page, trying to fool you into running it.
I'm also seeing several "returned mail" notices from places I've never
heard of. These also carry the virus, usually in a zip file.
There's probably more going on out there than I'm seeing as I do so much
blocking (such as all of China and Korea are locked off my email system,
I bounce them off the firewall). That first batch must have just been the
leading edge as I woke to find several had come in through Japanese
servers.
And given I saw at least one that was allegedly from a ng member, watch
out for email that *seems to be from another regular. It may be a forge.
Beware of unexpected attachments no matter who they claim to be from...
Perhaps the news' "pc expert" was right: She said that many people will
get computers for Christmas, go directly online without protection and be
loaded with viruses in about 4 minutes. (They did tests and about 4
minutes was average)
'Tis the season?
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Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
Alt-atheism website at: http://www.alt-atheism.org
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"Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."
-- Seneca the Younger
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28 Jan 2005 12:52:13 AM |
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On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 18:38:04 -0600, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote:
In our last episode <bnndv0hi839kmmgl431qtiujak583o7nrt@4ax.com>, drift
lumbered into the room and mumbled:
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 07:10:41 -0600, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote:
Another one of those fake "patches" seems to be making the rounds. I'm
assuming most of the folks here already know not to believe a "patch"
that shows up out of the blue, claiming to be from Microsoft but thought
I'd mention it anyway. The virus comes with an HTML page copied from an
MS support page, trying to fool you into running it.
I'm also seeing several "returned mail" notices from places I've never
heard of. These also carry the virus, usually in a zip file.
There's probably more going on out there than I'm seeing as I do so much
blocking (such as all of China and Korea are locked off my email system,
I bounce them off the firewall). That first batch must have just been the
leading edge as I woke to find several had come in through Japanese
servers.
And given I saw at least one that was allegedly from a ng member, watch
out for email that *seems to be from another regular. It may be a forge.
Beware of unexpected attachments no matter who they claim to be from...
Perhaps the news' "pc expert" was right: She said that many people will
get computers for Christmas, go directly online without protection and be
loaded with viruses in about 4 minutes. (They did tests and about 4
minutes was average)
'Tis the season?
For the convenience of Window's users, and curiosity of Linux users,
there *is a bunch of newly identified viruses here.
Symantec updates on Thursdays, and as you can see from the list, now
would be a good time to update if you're not on automatic.
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/vinfodb.html
drift
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| Title: Re: OT: More viruses - FAKE Microsoft "patch" |
28 Jan 2005 05:15:17 AM |
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In our last episode <b03jv0h7n4vmtf88judkr3kim8jrfkgipe@4ax.com>, drift
lumbered into the room and mumbled:
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 18:38:04 -0600, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote:
In our last episode <bnndv0hi839kmmgl431qtiujak583o7nrt@4ax.com>, drift
lumbered into the room and mumbled:
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 07:10:41 -0600, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote:
Another one of those fake "patches" seems to be making the rounds. I'm
assuming most of the folks here already know not to believe a "patch"
that shows up out of the blue, claiming to be from Microsoft but
thought I'd mention it anyway. The virus comes with an HTML page copied
from an MS support page, trying to fool you into running it.
I'm also seeing several "returned mail" notices from places I've never
heard of. These also carry the virus, usually in a zip file.
There's probably more going on out there than I'm seeing as I do so
much blocking (such as all of China and Korea are locked off my email
system, I bounce them off the firewall). That first batch must have
just been the leading edge as I woke to find several had come in
through Japanese servers.
And given I saw at least one that was allegedly from a ng member, watch
out for email that *seems to be from another regular. It may be a
forge. Beware of unexpected attachments no matter who they claim to be
from...
Perhaps the news' "pc expert" was right: She said that many people will
get computers for Christmas, go directly online without protection and
be loaded with viruses in about 4 minutes. (They did tests and about 4
minutes was average)
'Tis the season?
For the convenience of Window's users, and curiosity of Linux users, there
*is a bunch of newly identified viruses here.
That would explain the up tick I saw. I usually only see this during major
waves. Often by the time they get past my blocking and spam control, it
means the Windows world is being pelted pretty good...
--
Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
Alt-atheism website at: http://www.alt-atheism.org
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"Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."
-- Seneca the Younger
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