On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 19:39:24 -0700
Tom Marinis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Bob Hemus wrote:
> > Tom Marinis wrote:
> > 
> >> David A. Bandel wrote: 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Yesterday I received 6 or 7 messages, Re: Details, Re: 
> > your_documentation, stuff like that with an attatchment.  The
> > message is blank. Are these the worm or the soBig virus?  I get my
> > connection through Siskiyou Telephone in Fort Jones, CA.  The
> > webmaster told me he has switched to at least 3 boxen running RH 9. 
> > I don't know how many Windows units he has.  He thought he had all
> > the fixes and patches?  Bob
> 
> Probably SOBIG-F.   I've recieved just over 210 in my
> personal e-mail addy now.  Almost filled 75% of the yahoo
> 4 meg limit with e-mails and attachments.
> 
> I only recieve this group, lists,  and Kurt WALL's
> SLACKWARE group through it, so go figure...
> 
> Before I went home today, I pulled the PC
> that acts as the Windows server from the network at
> work, backed-up what data I could today, a couple of
> hours before closing.  My boss was not impressed.
> 
> I then downloaded what patches 2000 required, made a
> LAST KNOWN GOOD BACK save, and then applied the patch.
> 
> So far, I'm lucky, no mailers here.
> 
> I can only imagine those who have mailers, and all the
> garbage their getting
> 

I consider myself extremely fortunate.  I applied the M$ patches to my
wife's WinXP machine, and nothing has happened to it.  I'm not getting
any garbage in her mail account or mine, so the upstream locations must
be filtering it out.

Just an aside.  I have a love/hate relationship with M$.  They've put
some really nice features into WinXP.  I just discovered tonight that
they have a standard built in function to create cdroms.  You just click
on a file, select copy to cd rom, repeat ad nauseam, and the entries to
be copied get noted in an internal CD-R directory (you can't find it
anywhere). When you have all your entries noted, you click on the icon
for your CD writer, insert a blank CD-R or CD-RW, and it will
prompt you through burning a CD.  Pretty slick.

Too bad nice functionality like this is built on top of an absolute
garbage operating system.

-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area
if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the 
worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.


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