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New IM Worms Hit MSN Messenger
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| March 07, 2005
| Gregg Keizer
Posted on 03/07/2005 3:27:17 PM PST by RebelTex
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To: Paloma_55
"Just sent my son an IM telling him not to click on links... and provided a link to the warning site. This will be interesting to see how he reacts."
oooh - You're so mean, heheh.
Please - report the reaction - we've got to know what happens.
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posted on
03/07/2005 3:58:42 PM PST
by
RebelTex
(Freedom is everyone's right - and everyone's responsibility!)
To: engrpat
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posted on
03/07/2005 3:59:34 PM PST
by
RebelTex
(Freedom is everyone's right - and everyone's responsibility!)
To: RebelTex
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posted on
03/07/2005 4:00:29 PM PST
by
John Lenin
(Can't get blood from a turnip)
To: HAL9000
"Windows is the ultimate time waster."You're probably right. My daughter just got a new Apple Notebook - maybe she can teach me something about it.
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posted on
03/07/2005 4:02:29 PM PST
by
RebelTex
(Freedom is everyone's right - and everyone's responsibility!)
To: mommadooo3
"Does that mean if 'you' have downloaded the spybot 'detection program', that 'you' have downloaded a worm/virus/bug/etc???"I don't think so - but then, what do I know?
;^D
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posted on
03/07/2005 4:04:30 PM PST
by
RebelTex
(Freedom is everyone's right - and everyone's responsibility!)
To: backhoe
"...until the wife-unit turned on me."Ouch. Wife-units must be treated very gently, with lots of attention, or they can become ... well, you fill in the blanks.
;^D
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posted on
03/07/2005 4:08:05 PM PST
by
RebelTex
(Freedom is everyone's right - and everyone's responsibility!)
To: RebelTex
She sounds like a smart kid. She must have been raised right.
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posted on
03/07/2005 4:09:41 PM PST
by
HAL9000
(Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
To: LasVegasMac
"I like a virus that makes my computer freeze up like a rasberry smoothie." LOL
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posted on
03/07/2005 4:11:01 PM PST
by
RebelTex
(Freedom is everyone's right - and everyone's responsibility!)
To: All
Have to go - back in a few hours.
If I missed your post, I'll try to answer it then.
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posted on
03/07/2005 4:25:59 PM PST
by
RebelTex
(Freedom is everyone's right - and everyone's responsibility!)
To: mommadooo3
If you're talking about
"Spybot - Search & Destroy", the answer is "no". "Spybot - S&D" has a long record as a safe and effective anti-spyware program.
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posted on
03/07/2005 4:34:03 PM PST
by
holymoly
("A lot" is TWO words.)
To: RebelTex
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posted on
03/07/2005 4:37:01 PM PST
by
meadsjn
To: RebelTex
What's the latest on the MS's service pak2 update. Is it working well? I'm installing a new hardrive tomorrow, and will reload everything. Today, without SP2 I'm literally being bombarded, much via the messenger backdoor, I think.
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posted on
03/07/2005 4:45:32 PM PST
by
chiller
(DONE: Gore, taxes, terrorism,Kerry, Old Media. TO DO: Judges, Tort, IRS, Soc.Sec.,borders..)
To: RebelTex
"Does that run on WinXP?" I don't know off hand. I believe they do have a Win XP installer. Go to their site and check it out....I'm too damned lazy!
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posted on
03/07/2005 4:57:28 PM PST
by
KoRn
(~Halliburton Told Me......)
To: ShadowAce
Thanks for the ping. I've been watching this one for the last few days. All 600 PC's on my net are now without messenger. I'm gonna do another 'patrol' tomorrow to check for possible rebellious users.
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posted on
03/07/2005 5:00:19 PM PST
by
KoRn
(~Halliburton Told Me......)
To: Brian328i
And yet again, I see no reason for Messenger to come bundled in XP Pro and install by default!!
I like XP Pro, but this is one feature I can do without, especially as a systems admin.
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posted on
03/07/2005 5:03:47 PM PST
by
stylin_geek
(Liberalism: comparable to a chicken with its head cut off, but with more spastic motions)
To: Brian328i
...I guess just turning off those 3rd party cookies doesn't help all that much does it?
To: LasVegasMac
LOL, thats one of the better ones on that dumb commercial
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posted on
03/07/2005 5:43:29 PM PST
by
suzyq5558
(This space is reserved for the next round of liberal silliness.)
To: backhoe
She uses Win2K at work and brings piles of it home. MSOffice files? I finally bit the bullet and bought CrossOver Office so I could run MSOffice2000 under SuSE linux.
I tried the free demo for a month and then pried open my wallet spent $39 for the software - which explains the recent rash of earthquakes. But I digress.
So far all my macros and old spreadsheets seem to work as before - I consider myself to be an advanced Excel user (not so much with Word). And I've been feeding the resulting Word and Excel files to ten different users with different OS/MSO/hardware configs with zero compatibility issues to date - KoW.
Best of all, I'm spend a lot less time maintaining the system.
Linux isn't for everybody but if you've tried it and MSOffice compatibility was your major roadblock - it's well worth trying the COO free demo.
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posted on
03/07/2005 6:48:34 PM PST
by
LTCJ
(If the gay penguins show up at tuxedo shops, hide the chicks - they're recruiting!)
To: Labyrinthos
"Install an antivirus program or better yet, an internet security suite; keep it up to date using the auto update feature; and configure it to scan instant messages, as well as every file you open."Yep - already way ahead of you. I'm just being a grouch about all the viruses, worms, and hackers out there - I've got better things to do with my time than to constantly download & install Win patches and updates (but I do it anyway). Then there seems to be 2 or 3 Norton AV updates everyday. Then there's Zone Alarm, MS Office, Norton Internet Security, bios upgrades, hardware driver updates, new toys, industry software programs, website maintenance, email, and on and on. Hell, if I could get away from this dang computer for an hour or 2 a day, maybe I could make some money, lol.
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posted on
03/07/2005 9:02:33 PM PST
by
RebelTex
(Freedom is everyone's right - and everyone's responsibility!)
To: jakkknife
"I use Trillian for all of my IM programs. I wonder if it will block this from happening...."I don't know anything about Trillian - sorry.
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posted on
03/07/2005 9:03:58 PM PST
by
RebelTex
(Freedom is everyone's right - and everyone's responsibility!)
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