1. Ok, so you have a dual boot WinXP / Mandrake system and you can't get mandrake to read your windows partition.
Question, have you loaded the experimental NTFS file system reader, unless you have your XP partition set up as fat32 you will need to get the NTFS filesystem reader. 2. I then tried to use a usb drive and the system froze. Dunno, anyone else have some suggestions here? 3. I was using Evolution and lost the ability to send. I was doing this as root so I changed to a user. Then again I lost the ability to send mail from evolution as a user vice root. Now both root and user evolution would not send. I've found that evolution is buggy, real buggy.... Crashes all the time and looses settings. 4. An E-mail recipient told me his Norton said it got a virus from me. Yeah, most likely not... the current virus flavors of the week are particularly good at making it seem as though a friend of yours or someone you know has sent you mail with the virus attachment. But usually that is not the case. Most likely the virus spam was just sent with your name in the from header. 5. As for the rest. Yes the NSA has located you and you can expect that they will be knocking on your door only seconds after reading this e-mail. JH -----Original Message----- From: Bill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 10:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [RLUG] AnitVirus Linux is connected to the Internet. I loaded Mandrake Linux on a dual boot system. Mandrake would not read XP files so I loaded Xandros Linux on top of Mandrake. Xandros took over most of the Mandrake file space but not all. I then tried to use a usb drive and the system froze. I was using Evolution and lost the ability to send. I was doing this as root so I changed to a user. Then again I lost the ability to send mail from evolution as a user vice root. Now both root and user evolution would not send. An E-mail recipient told me his Norton said it got a virus from me. I went to the Xandros update and updated Xandros. Instead it deleted all the programs it was to update including openoffice and evolution. I backed up all the files I had worked on. When I checked the backup, all data files I had worked on while I was using Linux were deleted. I used Partition Commander and repartitioned the Hard Drive deleting the Mandrake, Xandros and Linux swap file; and reinstalled Xandros. Either, A) I do not know what I am doing (probably) B) NSA has found me C) dito Romulans D) something evil got into my hard drive. I suspect D) and before I try to use Linux again I need to prevent D. I was using Firestarter as a firewall. I did try to install F-Prot, but I suspect that instead of being a Windows user no action install, it requires the user to do something that I didn't do. So I am trying to find a anti virus or something that will prevent D) and I can actually use Linux on a workstation. I think that I didn't set up Linux properly last time, but I am too much of a newbee to know what I did wrong. All the best. Bill Cadwallader, A.I.C.P. Planning Director/Chief Information Officer Western Nevada Development District 3208 Goni Road Suite 183 Carson City NV 89706-7925 775 883 7333 (p) 775 883 0722 (f) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 39 11' 20" N 119 44' 51" W -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark C. Ballew Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 9:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [RLUG] AnitVirus On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 09:15, Bill wrote: > I am looking for the Linux equivalent of Norton or McAfee for antivirus. > > Does anybody have a recommendation? Comments on installation? So, you are looking for a virus scanner to scan attachments in your Linux email client, or look for trojans you may have downloaded? A quick Google revealed that there are virus scanners for Linux, but I'm at a loss as far as what they would actually do. I haven't heard of any Linux virii, but it is practical that they could exist. As far as I know, the big problem with Linux, or any Unix, are trojans and script kiddies, both of which can be avoided with checksum/hashes, security updates, and Puffy the Blowfish. Am I wrong here? Someone please correct me :) -- Mark C. Ballew [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sublinear.net http://markballew.com PGP: 0xB2A33008 AIM: pdx110 "I wish those people just would be quiet," -- Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, complaining about computer security researchers. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.634 / Virus Database: 406 - Release Date: 3/18/2004 _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
