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| May 4 2005
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Posted on 05/04/2005 5:16:08 PM PDT by Las Vegas Dave
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To: Las Vegas Dave
My server has sent me 20+ emails about intercepting email w/virus just today!
(I hope all virus-mongers and spyware iceholes rot in hell.)
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posted on
05/04/2005 5:29:01 PM PDT
by
Tuba Guy
(~ Only YOU Can Prevent Hillareah !! ~)
To: Redcloak
Maybe - maybe not - but if you had a real operating system, you wouldn't have to wonder.
:P
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posted on
05/04/2005 5:29:28 PM PDT
by
Tennessee_Bob
(The Crew Chief's Toolbox: A roll around cabinet full of specialists.)
To: Cicero
can anyone explain this to me... I received about 20 of these in the last 48 hours and I never, never get spam.
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posted on
05/04/2005 5:29:40 PM PDT
by
Oystir
To: Tuba Guy
I can't complain too much about them; between them and my idiot users (who despite all warnings and some beatings continue to open unexpected attachments and follow links to websites blindly), they keep me in business.
Microsoft Windows and the virus/adware/spyware writers - the IT Industry's Full Employment Act.
(Of course, I use Mac OS X at home, on my laptop, and on my personal servers, so I don't have to worry about that when I get home.) :)
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posted on
05/04/2005 5:31:46 PM PDT
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: CitizenM
Has anyone had this type of email come in?Not this time, but all that means is that it was spoofing the sender from lists found on your friends' machines, and your name and addy won the lottery.
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posted on
05/04/2005 5:31:49 PM PDT
by
HairOfTheDog
(This horse has been milked to death.)
To: fat city
Only drugfree p. can keep you out of trouble.
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posted on
05/04/2005 5:32:51 PM PDT
by
Arkie2
To: Aggie Mama
My daughter in law in Canada told me she got several of these today. She didn't open them.
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posted on
05/04/2005 5:33:58 PM PDT
by
janetgreen
(Minutman Project - American patriotism!)
To: Tennessee_Bob
If I wanted to look at that, I could have stayed with the old Apple IIE we had in high school.
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posted on
05/04/2005 5:34:17 PM PDT
by
HairOfTheDog
(This horse has been milked to death.)
To: Tennessee_Bob
[snif] Brings back memories of that old Kaypro I used in college. [sigh]
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posted on
05/04/2005 5:34:20 PM PDT
by
Ramius
To: Tennessee_Bob
That refreshes my memory for the old days of MS-DOS without Windows. Long ago I use to write my own Autoexec.bat and now I am scared that my skills have faded away by the influence of GUI. :)
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posted on
05/04/2005 5:36:47 PM PDT
by
Wiz
To: Blue Champagne
Ah, the bliss of using a MAC...
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posted on
05/04/2005 5:37:01 PM PDT
by
Conservatrix
(He who stands for nothing will fall for anything.)
To: HairOfTheDog
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posted on
05/04/2005 5:37:13 PM PDT
by
Wiz
To: HairOfTheDog
Sshhhh... there is balance in all things. I like listening to cocky mac and *nix folk. No habits of update and patch. No antivirus running on nearly any system.
Someday... the same worm will take 'em all down at once, and we can be there to lick the delicious tears of sadness. /cartman. :-)
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posted on
05/04/2005 5:37:33 PM PDT
by
Ramius
To: Spktyr
"I'm not a big fan of Trend Micro's stuff. Tried Grisoft's software?"
Serious question. Would you mind explaining wy that is? I have recommended TM corporate products and if there is something better then I'd like to educate myself. Thanks in advance.
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posted on
05/04/2005 5:37:34 PM PDT
by
Texas_Jarhead
(To hell with Mexico, its policies, and its leaders)
To: CitizenM
< snip >
"administrators" "hosts" etc. for a server and were alerting me to the fact that "Your email did not go through, " or "Your email was blocked < snip >
That is approximately what my email from BLUECROSS(es?) said!
To: Redcloak
Would you believe that one nut actually tried to get several "popular" worms to run under WINE?Wow. If Monsieur is that desperate for abuse, may I suggest ze Windows? It is particularly tender this evening.
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posted on
05/04/2005 5:40:56 PM PDT
by
LTCJ
To: HairOfTheDog; Redcloak
I dunno... they have a really long way to go.
Most of the time, I can't even get the virus/spyware detectors to even cooperate with my browser/Linux combination to let me know if I have a problem.
Linux variants may not be completely bullet proof, but they are so superior to Windows variants in the way networked information is handled that it almost requires personal keyboard access with supervisor privileges to infect a machine. Post#8 above that describes failed attempts to infect LINUX machine by running various viruses on WINE (the WINdows Emulator available on most LINUX distributions) --- that is, giving the virus advantages that it does not naturally have in LINUX to begin with --- are pretty indicative of the difficulty.
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posted on
05/04/2005 5:43:10 PM PDT
by
AFPhys
((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
To: Spktyr
Tried Grisoft's software? No - may have to check that out. I'm dealing with about 20 servers under Micro$oft and a half-dozen Netware boxes. Symantec was the choice because Somebody liked the central console interface. That's the basis under which I'm trying to sell Trend to the boss...
To: AFPhys
I've never had a virus myself using Windows, and I don't have to know how to build all the software in order to run it.
I'm a driver, not a mechanic, but whatever makes you happy.
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posted on
05/04/2005 5:48:25 PM PDT
by
HairOfTheDog
(This horse has been milked to death.)
To: Texas_Jarhead
I've seen some *very* weird things happen with Trend Micro corporate antivirus stuff - strange incompatibilities, crashes, that sort of thing; not all that common, but it's happened to my clients enough times to make me leery. I'd still take TM over Symantec over McAfee, though.
Check out Grisoft's offerings - www.grisoft.com. Their stuff is less user-friendly than Symantec, but it takes a lot less horsepower to run, has a much better automatic update and detection system, and the automatic scheduled system scan can run in the background on more powerful machines without much of a speed hit.
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posted on
05/04/2005 5:50:57 PM PDT
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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