Re: Netsky worm

2004-06-30 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, phil wrote: can whoever maintains this list ensure that virus definitions are up to date. I have had 3 and as I write 5 instances of the above. be on guard Regards Phil Phil, There are spam/virus filters, and there are messages with spoofed e-mail addresses that

Re: Netsky worm

2004-06-30 Thread Andrew DeFaria
phil wrote: can whoever maintains this list ensure that virus definitions are up to date. I have had 3 and as I write 5 instances of the above. be on guard How about switching to something other than the virus propagating MS software (i.e. Outlook and Outlook Express)? -- There cannot be a

Re: Netsky worm

2004-06-30 Thread Chris Taylor
On Wed, June 30, 2004 7:47 pm, Andrew DeFaria said: phil wrote: can whoever maintains this list ensure that virus definitions are up to date. I have had 3 and as I write 5 instances of the above. be on guard How about switching to something other than the virus propagating MS

Re: Netsky worm

2004-06-30 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Chris Taylor wrote: On Wed, June 30, 2004 7:47 pm, Andrew DeFaria said: phil wrote: can whoever maintains this list ensure that virus definitions are up to date. I have had 3 and as I write 5 instances of the above. be on guard How about switching to something other than the virus propagating MS

RE: Netsky worm

2004-06-30 Thread Robert McNulty Junior
. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew DeFaria Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 3:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Netsky worm Chris Taylor wrote: On Wed, June 30, 2004 7:47 pm, Andrew DeFaria said: phil wrote: can whoever maintains

Re: Netsky worm

2004-06-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
Ok. Let's stop talking about this now. It was a temporary glitch. Hoping that would be obvious given the amount of spam/viruses that actually makes it through here is probably way too much to ask. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Netsky worm

2004-06-30 Thread Michael Uman
Hi, This guy sounds like a nut case... Obviously flame bait... I don't know where this guy gets his information, maybe from MS press literature. First he claims not to use Outlook, then claims he uses it behind a firewall... What difference does it make that he runs Outlook behind a firewall? He

Re: Netsky worm

2004-06-30 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Robert Pendell wrote: Yes. That is true. Microsoft is showing some changes though for the future. For example. Even in Windows XP, LAN connections are firewalled by default. SP2 will enable the firewall by default and include a security center. The firewall is more robust giving the user a bit

Re: Netsky worm

2004-06-30 Thread Kaz Kylheku
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Robert Pendell wrote: Right. Windows actually stole certain things from UNIX. Example: The system32\drivers\etc folder is taken directly from UNIX. There are certain others stolen from UNIX too but I can't remember what. ``Stolen'' is a big word. Microsoft has as much