On Friday May 27 2005 21:58, Chopin Cusachs spake: > > I did leave my dial-up connection on all afternoon one day and > some spammer managed to bounce a lot of messages through > my machine, as I discovered from both many delivery failures > and a nasty message from my ISP. So I have Zone Alarm on > all our machines. It reports over 5,000 attempted intrusions at > this machine in the last month, with 284 high-rated. So if I get > DSL set up out here, I can expect a certain amount of garbage. >
Gaa, your machine is infected. I'd run an antivirus scanner (norton?), plus spyware removal tools (spybot and ad-aware), if I were you. -- Joey Kelly < Minister of the Gospel | Linux Consultant > http://joeykelly.net "I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous." --- David Bradley, the IBM employee that invented CTRL-ALT-DEL -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : /pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20050528/83bb588b/attachment.bin From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat May 28 12:23:47 2005 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (-ray) Date: Sat May 28 12:23:08 2005 Subject: [brlug-general] WiFi Security In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You might also try Microsoft malicious software removal tool: http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.mspx ray On Friday May 27 2005 21:58, Chopin Cusachs spake: > > I did leave my dial-up connection on all afternoon one day and > some spammer managed to bounce a lot of messages through > my machine, as I discovered from both many delivery failures > and a nasty message from my ISP. So I have Zone Alarm on > all our machines. It reports over 5,000 attempted intrusions at > this machine in the last month, with 284 high-rated. So if I get > DSL set up out here, I can expect a certain amount of garbage. > Gaa, your machine is infected. I'd run an antivirus scanner (norton?), plus spyware removal tools (spybot and ad-aware), if I were you. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org Systems Engineer Southeastern Louisiana University IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX Support =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
