Arachne V!RUS!!!! on usenet!

2000-08-21 Thread Eko Priono
Sheesh! ?^$*@#^#%! Now EVERYONE really know! URL: http://www.escribe.com/computing/opdif/ - * [27]Re: [SURVPC] Arachne Trojan, Or Botton, Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:49:43 * [28][SURVPC] Arachne Trojan, Marc D. Williams, Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:16:49 - URL: news://earth.sonow.net/alt.msdos/

Re: Linux directories and Arachne

2000-08-21 Thread Bernie
Steven wrote: As a long-time DOS user, I like installing each application in its own directory. This compartmentalization keeps things tidy and makes it really easy to delete/upgrade. However, Linux is more complicated than DOS and requires a different kind of organization. For example,

Little Round Circles

2000-08-21 Thread Edenyard
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000 05:05:29 +0200, Pete wrote: Also, Arachne seems to use that circle to indicate blank spaces at the beginning of lines of text :-| If we manually insert those, will the drawing or diagram display as expected? What's the key combo? I've a feeling that those little

Arachne is not destructive - howgh.

2000-08-21 Thread Michael Polak
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Edenyard wrote: I have seen a small example of what people are referring to as the obscenities in CORE.EXE and I must say that I think that it is VERY foolish to have used such text, for two reasons. It is passphrase which is used to read Arachne registration key. In

Re: STUPID!! (was Re: CONFIRMED: ARACHNE is destructive!)

2000-08-21 Thread Michael Polak
On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Clarence Verge wrote: After reading your post, I immediately did a default re-install of MS-DOS 5 and son of a B#%$!! TEMP was set to C:\DOS !! This is absolutely _incredibly_ STUPID from so MANY points of view !! ARACHNE is NOT the problem here ! The default MS-DOS 5

Re: STUPID!! (was Re: CONFIRMED: ARACHNE is destructive!)

2000-08-21 Thread J J Young
Intresting enough - whenever I see someone type this in IRC, it usually followed by several sudden quits from several people. Meaning that yes, people are actually -that- stupid to believe these things. When I was a youngster a "friend" did his darndest to convince me that he and others had

Arachne in XDOS

2000-08-21 Thread van voordturen
Hello once again, Finally! Online with RedHat 5.2, Arachne in a Box, and it looks quite promising. Not perfect though. Using 256 color svga server, 1 MB CLGD5446 (onboard pci "card"), 450 MB DOS partition, M$DOS 6.22, virtual 486 dos machine with 2 MB RAM, arachne in 256 color mode turns the

Re: Arachne V!RUS!!!! on usenet!

2000-08-21 Thread Or Botton
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000 13:03:27 +0700 (JAVT), Eko Priono wrote: URL: news://earth.sonow.net/alt.msdos/ I allready written an explanation about this in alt.msdos. Couldnt find the others, though. Anyway, its rather typical to find all sorts of myths and legends on usenet. That, and spam.

Arachne is not destructive - howgh.

2000-08-21 Thread Or Botton
Hm. I've just had an intresting thought - You dont have to try to reverse engineer core.exe in order to get these words. Just think about it. What if a person who have a collection of "certain type of files" (refering to the content) attempt to grep the computer for one of the obvious keywords?

Re: Is Arachne a spambot? ;-)

2000-08-21 Thread Ben Hood
On 19 Aug 2000, at 23:17, Eko Priono wrote: http://survpc.virtualave.net/test/arachne_crack.asp .asp??? What is this? I thought one could only use perl, or it is some sort of Front Page thing? the final version ;-) If you use another browser, you will see my customized error 404 page

Arachne is not destructive - howgh.

2000-08-21 Thread Roger Turk
Michael P. wrote: This "message" won't be displayed on screen on any occasion - it is secret piece of code, used as passphrase, and only people who break Arachne license can be exposed to this text. So people, who use Arachne as it was intended, have no chance to view any obscene message. Beg

Subject: Re: Now straying wildly

2000-08-21 Thread Neil Smith
Ooops! I seem to have dropped a b*ck here - didn't realise insight would interpret text in the subject line as raw html! Didin't mean to break your email, and I'll never, ever do that again. Promise! g If that's the case, is this a security hole, or more of an inconvenience ? What I mean is

Security: ARACHNE MSG=arachne:exit alert

2000-08-21 Thread Clarence Verge
Neil Smith wrote: Ooops! I seem to have dropped a b*ck here - didn't realise insight would interpret text in the subject line as raw html! Didin't mean to break your email, and I'll never, ever do that again. Promise! g Hi Neil; I'm sure you know I was just making a "BUG" report and not

Re: Linux directories and Arachne

2000-08-21 Thread Steven
Bernie wrote: DOS programs share some things as well, dos4gw.exe and cwsdpmi for instance. I don't think dos4gw and cwsdpmi are on my DOS system. It's unusual for DOS binaries to use shared libraries; whereas, nearly every Linux binary does. For example: the directory command (ls) and

Arachne and hercules grafics

2000-08-21 Thread Joerg Dietze
Hi folks, just for fun I assembled an other "historical" computer which is supposed to be my "communication server". I was curios to see if Arachne would run on this machine with a noname hercules card. So I rememberd for a little driver called hgc.com emulating CGA on a Hercules and: It

OT, but funny anyway. ;)

2000-08-21 Thread Dale Mentzer
Hi Arachnians, Boy, this list is getting way too serious. I offer this for our amusement until things settle down a bit, what with all the security hole talk, Arachne "virus" crap, yada yada. Enjoy. Regards, Dale Mentzer --- Forwarded Message Follows --- Subject: Are you prepared

Lost Clusters revisited

2000-08-21 Thread Ron Clarke
Hi Folks, I find that I am now getting lost clusters with some regularity. System: 486, 133 MHz, 32 Mb RAM, MS-DOS 6.20 running Arachne 1.66, low memory (at boot) 580 kb, (Arachne loaded) = 105 kb. The cause ? It is very clearly linked to aborted email uploads - each lost

Re: Little Round Circles

2000-08-21 Thread Pete
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000 08:31:57 +, "Edenyard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 20 Aug 2000 05:05:29 +0200, Pete wrote: Also, Arachne seems to use that circle to indicate blank spaces at the beginning of lines of text :-| If we manually insert those, will the drawing or diagram display as

Re: Setting PC system clock

2000-08-21 Thread Pete
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000 17:11:54 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This information may be a bit dated by now, but over the weekend I did some searching on the Internet and found the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) web page for their Automated Computer Time Service (ACTS).

Re: Is Arachne a spambot? ;-)

2000-08-21 Thread Pete
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000 23:20:29 +1000, Ben Hood wrote: On AVA I do detect Arachne, and try to output different symbols for ampersand in URLs... Arachne doesn't like amp;, but you are supposed to use them, even in URLs not all URLs are updated. -- Ben Hood, Arachne Fan Club Webmaster Hi

(OT) Does anyone have problems with GirlFriend 3.1?

2000-08-21 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
Hello my fellow Arachnids: Have any of you guys ever tried to install and run GirlFriend 3.1 yet? This one is supposed to be perfectly compatible with your old system, and she's supposed to run super-slick too, but many users have reported problems. For an authoritative bug report go here:

Re: (OT) Does anyone have problems with GirlFriend 3.1?

2000-08-21 Thread Dale Mentzer
On 21 Aug 00 at 21:50, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: Hello my fellow Arachnids: Have any of you guys ever tried to install and run GirlFriend 3.1 yet? This one is supposed to be perfectly compatible with your old system, and she's supposed to run super-slick too, but many users have reported

Re: (OT) Does anyone have problems with GirlFriend 3.1?

2000-08-21 Thread Clarence Verge
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000 21:42:40, Dale Mentzer wrote: My advice is to stick to MT4D v6.00. I'm sorry Dale. There have been reports of insufficient capacity with that version. I would sugggest an upgrade to v7.25. - Clarence Verge - Using Arachne V1.62 for a change

Re: Setting PC system clock

2000-08-21 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000 03:05:19 -0500, "Pete" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I noticed that the NIST page said that the time standard is based upon *** Jan. 1, 4713 B.C. *** This is the start of the Masonic calendar-- the "Year of Light". Interesting... (I love stuff like this :-) Is the above

Setting PC system clock

2000-08-21 Thread lhouk
This information may be a bit dated by now, but over the weekend I did some searching on the Internet and found the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) web page for their Automated Computer Time Service (ACTS). The URL is: http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/service/acts.htm