How about winrar? How does it rate security wise?
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From: Mark Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 9:50 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: OT: Viruses and WinZip
This just in, if you have an older version of WinZip you may be
vulnerable to a
Norm Baugher wrote:
Or, from today's spam summary:
Subject: FWD:ok call of pers.weatlh...Balch
Subject: minnesota bingle comic eleventh comptroller
Subject: salutation hereinafter heathkit astigmatism glycerol
Subject: Fw: Past Due Payment, acct Lela crystallographer nash iran
Subject:
he's got that email address published on his website and it was
somehow harvested. There could be a chance that you got it from your
website's exposure too? If you want to test it, you could create a new
email
address and secretly insert it in a really tiny font or same colour as the
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, D. Glenn Arthur Jr. wrote:
You may not
have anything on your home machine so private that you'd
blush to have it broadast, but how many files are there
on the file server at work that your employers would prefer
stay inside the company?
When the first large scale worm
I kind of doubt that viruses crawl websites looking for e-mail addresses when
any computer they infect has a nice address book right there handy with lots o
addy's to grab. Even the spammers do no seem to do that. At least I get no spam
from the addy's on my website. However one post on Usenet
Graywolf wrote:
I kind of doubt that viruses crawl websites looking for e-mail addresses when
any computer they infect has a nice address book right there handy with lots
o addy's to grab. Even the spammers do no seem to do that.
There have been several worms which search in the web cache
The company I used to work for once embargoed jpeg files because of a
rumor that they might be infected with viruses. I e-mailed the support
people to describe just imbecilic this was but they didn't rescind the
prohibition
for about a week. I don't know what software they were using but it was
Peter Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The company I used to work for once embargoed jpeg files because of a
rumor that they might be infected with viruses. I e-mailed the support
people to describe just imbecilic this was but they didn't rescind the
prohibition for about a week.
A couple of
Hi,
What I wonder about is the dumber than usual spam that I have been getting
lately with gibberish messages.
Somebody somewhere has invented a subject-line and sender-name
generator which has an almost poetic soul. I get spam from the most
imaginatively named senders with wonderful
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From: Bob W [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 1:49 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Viruses...
Hi,
What I wonder about is the dumber than usual spam that I
have been getting
lately with gibberish messages.
Somebody
Len Paris wrote:
What I wonder about is the dumber than usual spam that I
have been getting
lately with gibberish messages.
I get them too. I wonder what the real purpose of them is. [...]
I'm sure there is a
purpose there somewhere but I don't know what it could be. Perhaps they
are
You mean like this one? (text copied and pasted, for your protection)
ignorant barnett mesozoic chime isotope diego billiken
legal giant imminent bulrush pbs irremediable bathroom baseball
rampant bergson blanket anomie infinite radio
--
Bob W wrote:
Hi,
What I wonder about is the dumber than
Yep, you wouldn't have thought anyone would be taken in by it but you
would have been wrong. I don't miss that company, the paycheck, but not
the company.
At 02:37 PM 2/5/04, you wrote:
Peter Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The company I used to work for once embargoed jpeg files because of a
Hi,
something like that, but you have to wear a beret and a goatee beard
and declaim, Beatnik style, in a smokey club.
And you should be called something like Brock Marcus, Trey Stanton or
Neva Summers (which sounds very contrasty).
--
Cheers,
Bob
Thursday, February 5, 2004, 8:49:29 PM, you
Could it be a code of some sort that is sent to thousands of people
including the intended recipients, who know the key?
Len
* There's no place like 127.0.0.1
ignorant barnett mesozoic chime isotope diego billiken
legal giant imminent bulrush pbs irremediable bathroom baseball
rampant
Or, from today's spam summary:
Subject: FWD:ok call of pers.weatlh...Balch
Subject: minnesota bingle comic eleventh comptroller
Subject: salutation hereinafter heathkit astigmatism glycerol
Subject: Fw: Past Due Payment, acct Lela crystallographer nash iran
Subject: Re: arpa
Subject: Pastdue
We know for sure he is one of these 50 million people.
Like in WWII, there's the message, so we know this spy reads the London Times.
--
Len Paris wrote:
Could it be a code of some sort that is sent to thousands of people
including the intended recipients, who know the key?
Len
* There's no
Yep, that makes it as tough as steganography.
Len
* There's no place like 127.0.0.1
We know for sure he is one of these 50 million people.
Like in WWII, there's the message, so we know this spy reads
the London Times.
Hey, GW. . . did you ever get your laptop back?
keith
graywolf wrote:
We know for sure he is one of these 50 million people.
Like in WWII, there's the message, so we know this spy reads the London Times.
--
Len Paris wrote:
Could it be a code of some sort that is sent to thousands
No, nice friend, heh?
Keith Whaley wrote:
Hey, GW. . . did you ever get your laptop back?
keith
graywolf wrote:
We know for sure he is one of these 50 million people.
Like in WWII, there's the message, so we know this spy reads the London Times.
--
Len Paris wrote:
Could it be a code of
On 4/2/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged:
Anyways, just wanted to let you know that someone on-list definitely still
has this virus, so you may all want to check your 'puters again...
Thanks Tan, I've just checked mine.
Cheers,
Cotty
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|| (O) | People, Places, Pastiche
Tanya, my housemate's getting quite a few Mydooms daily.. By which email
address he's getting them at (and which addy he's not) he figures that it's
because he's got that email address published on his website and it was
somehow harvested. There could be a chance that you got it from your
; he only wants to see your bum.
I wish I'd got this yesterday. I feel so stupid and cheap!
:-)
Simon
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From: Rob Studdert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, 5 February 2004 9:54 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Viruses...
On 5 Feb 2004 at 10:39, Tanya
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 10:48 AM
Subject: Re: Viruses...
Robert wrote:
At 06:35 AM 5/02/2004 +1000, you
[ uh, Tanya, I think ]
wrote:
You must realise that sometimes companies overreact. They will ban ALL
exe
attachments claiming they are viruses
Hi William,
goto http://www.nrg666.com/pdml.shtml
Regards,
Paul
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From: William Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Pentax Discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 10:44 AM
Subject: Viruses
Hey gang,
Just got back from having my HD devistated by a
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 6:01 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Viruses Again
It gets me that the virus check done at boot time, which if it finds an
infected file, starts a lengthy search for others, is unable to correct the
problems, whereas if I run the virus check when I Windows
The only program I know of is Partition Magic (though there may be similar programs
out there). It includes a feature which it says will move a program from one drive to
another and adjust all necessary registry entries and other drive information as
necessary for the move, though I haven't
: Maris V. Lidaka, Sr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 12:41 PM
Subject: Re: Viruses Again
The only program I know of is Partition Magic (though there may be similar
programs out there). It includes a feature which it says will move a
program from one drive
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001 12:13:54 -0700, aimcompute wrote:
I've got a support post into Symantec to get some help on the Master Boot
Record issue.
Does anyone here know how to restore a logical drive without erasing it's
contents?
Hi Tom,
Actually I have a tool that does exactly that!
It is sort
I got my system back to normal. Norton Disk Doctor, which I had, allowed me
to run it from the CD. It detected the bad partition and restored it in
tact. Everything works. Nothing lost except for time.
Tom C.
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From: aimcompute [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Pentax Discuss
Also ironic, the D:\ drive is where I installed antivirus to. So NOW, it's
NOT protecting me.
Tom C.
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From: aimcompute [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Pentax Discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 12:13 PM
Subject: Viruses Again
A word to the wise...
Yep. That's the critter that got me. Then when I got every thing
reloaded and set up the way I wanted it got me again. So I reloaded
again and this time tried to bullet proof it. Then the damn computer
wouldn't shutdown properly. So, this time I formatted the HD and loaded
everything from scratch
the
repair tool and once running it said it fixed 4 of 4.
I think I'm clean now.
Tom C.
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From: Tom Rittenhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: aimcompute [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 3:24 PM
Subject: Re: Viruses Again
Yep. That's
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Anthony Farr wrote:
I've seen this kind of address on some spam e-mails, and I've read that
they are sent directly into your mail reader while online, rather than
being downloaded from your ISP's mail server. That's why they have the
strange address details. Just what
I've seen this kind of address on some spam e-mails, and I've read that
they are sent directly into your mail reader while online, rather than
being downloaded from your ISP's mail server. That's why they have the
strange address details. Just what I read but as I have no effing idea
how email
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Rittenhouse
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 7:05 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Viruses Worms Everywhere
The one that got me was, I think, a script embedded in an e-mail. When I
selected the e
That's a lot of work. Not using Outlook frees me, it seems, from having
to deal with this garbage.
Sorry you got infected, but, just out of curiosity, if various MS
products are so susceptible to this sort of thing, why use those
products? Is there some feature about Outlook that makes it
I had to remove W32.Badtrans.B virus from a machine this week too. Norton
only added this definition a few days ago (24th I believe), so if you
haven't run liveupdate since then it wont pick it up. Once I installed the
latest update it removed the virus fine. You also need to check Windows
Update
BTW an easy way to see if you have W32.Badtrans is to check for the
existence of Kernel32.exe (that's EXE and *NOT* DLL) and kdll.dll in your
windows system directory, as those arte the virus files. You can remove the
virus by deleteting them both in safe mode. Of course you also need to
delete
Hi,
On 30 Nov 2001 at 10:04, Kent Gittings wrote:
In my opinion at least Outlook tends to be more intuitive than using
the Netscape email client.
But these are only two. Two of the most common ones,
and obviously the ones the viruses and worms are tested on.
Personally, I'm for Pegasus
Shel wrote:
That's a lot of work. Not using Outlook frees me, it seems,
from having to deal with this garbage.
Not using WinDoze is even better. One of the benefits of
Macintosh's small market share is that these viro-nutz
don't bother attacking since the big
Norton hasn't detected any on my machine in that time frame. but I've seen
several posts on the Meade list by different people in the last several days
who were sent viruses.
Tom C.
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From: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Pentax List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
Shel,
Were they in attachments or embedded in HTML? I'd just like to know
what to watch out for.
Regards,
Anthony Farr
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From: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't know about you all, but in the last three days I've received
eleven email messages that
to have triggered the virus. So be careful.
--graywolf
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From: aimcompute [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 2:32 PM
Subject: Re: Viruses Worms Everywhere
Norton hasn't detected any on my machine in that time frame. but I've seen
: Thursday, November 29, 2001 7:18 PM
Subject: Re: Viruses Worms Everywhere
Shel,
Were they in attachments or embedded in HTML? I'd just like to know
what to watch out for.
Regards,
Anthony Farr
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From: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't know about you all
I've not seen anything embedded in HTML, but, in all honesty, I'm not
sure what to look for. What I received were attachments sent, in part,
through mailing list messages.
The ones that came my way were blank messages, the sender of which had
an odd aspect to his/her email address. The
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