Ann-Marie L. Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >Late Sunday night, I heard on the news that hackers messed up alot of >listservs by sending tons of messages to lists. I'm wondering if this is >what happened to the GML. > I know the GML was affected over the weekend, but I don't think it was subject to a hacker attack. The Hackers attacked big commercial sites and doubt Rice University was on their hit list. >Also, I picked up a virus Sunday. It attached itself to an email someone >sent me. The virus was called "Happy99". It came in the form of an >attachment on a blank email, but at the same time I received it, the person >did send me a message asking about adopting gerbils. I don't think the >person is a member of the GML, unless it is a concealed subscriber. The >sender may not have been aware that it happened. I did send her a message >telling her that is showed up from her address. I have been seeing a lot of this recently coming from people asking for gerbil advice. If you ever see a strange attachment coming from someone, even if you know them, do not open it unless someone you trust has told you it is coming and tells you what it is. > >Fortunately I have the virus taken care of now. It was making my mouse >pointer move slowly and in a jerky manner. I had to keep restarting my >computer and that was only good for about 10 minutes then I'd have to >restart it again. What a pain!! Make sure you properly remove it with either proper virus software or by following the instructions on many webpages. A slow moving mouse usually means there is a memory leak somewhere. This is because a program is eating up all the memory on your machine due t poor programing This may be connected with Happy99 but may be something else. > >Ann-Marie -- Julian ************************************************************************ * Jackie and Julian * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * National Gerbil Society * * http://www.gerbils.co.uk/ * ************************************************************************
