OT your_details

2003-06-26 Thread Joel Hammer
your_details.zip Does anyone know what this email attachment is? This is a zip file which contains a pif file. It seems to be a windows targeted nasty. Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -

Re: OT your_details

2003-06-26 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Joel Hammer: your_details.zip Does anyone know what this email attachment is? This is a zip file which contains a pif file. It seems to be a windows targeted nasty. http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurt -- ... all the modern inconveniences ...

Re: OT your_details

2003-06-26 Thread dep
quoth Joel Hammer: | your_details.zip | | Does anyone know what this email attachment is? This is a zip file | which contains a pif file. It seems to be a windows targeted nasty. a standard outlook rip. whole new batch of 'em the last few days. i'm fast reaching the point that i would take

Re: OT your_details

2003-06-26 Thread David A. Bandel
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 07:45:10 -0400 dep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quoth Joel Hammer: | your_details.zip | | Does anyone know what this email attachment is? This is a zip file | which contains a pif file. It seems to be a windows targeted nasty. a standard outlook rip. whole new batch of 'em

Re: OT your_details

2003-06-26 Thread Net Llama!
spam? On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Joel Hammer wrote: your_details.zip Does anyone know what this email attachment is? This is a zip file which contains a pif file. It seems to be a windows targeted nasty. Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL

Re: OT your_details

2003-06-26 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth David A. Bandel: On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 07:45:10 -0400 dep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quoth Joel Hammer: | your_details.zip | | Does anyone know what this email attachment is? This is a zip file | which contains a pif file. It seems to be a windows targeted nasty. a standard

Re: OT your_details

2003-06-26 Thread Chong Yu Meng
Same here. But I have found myself wondering, recently, what this particular virus does. Kind of like survivor guilt. Strange huh ? Regards, pascal chong Kurt Wall wrote: Nope. Nothing here at KurtWerks seems to mind. :-) KUrt ___ Linux-users

Re: OT your_details

2003-06-26 Thread dep
quoth Kurt Wall: | Quoth David A. Bandel: | | Sorry you folks have to deal with or even worry about it. They | don't seem to affect any of my systems. ;-) | | Nope. Nothing here at KurtWerks seems to mind. :-) it's simply the fact that these bozos are making the *attempt.* which so far as i'm

This is an alert from eSafe

2003-06-26 Thread eSafe
*** eSafe detected a hostile content in this email. *** Time: 10:57:51 06/26/03 Scan result: Mail modified to remove malicious content Protocol: SMTP in File Name / Mail Subject: D:\Program Files\eSafe\eSafeCR\SPOOL\1055932066 Source: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Destination: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Details:

Re: OT your_details

2003-06-26 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 10:31:57AM -0400, dep wrote: quoth Kurt Wall: | Quoth David A. Bandel: | | Sorry you folks have to deal with or even worry about it. They | don't seem to affect any of my systems. ;-) | | Nope. Nothing here at KurtWerks seems to mind. :-) it's simply the fact that these

RE: LJI article: My Visit to SCO

2003-06-26 Thread Condon Thomas A KPWA
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6956 -- Ian Lance Extracted: I asked a couple of times why SCO was being so secretive about everything. The answers were not particularly convincing. SCO said it was keeping its evidence secret because it is part of a legal action. The evidence

Re: OT your_details

2003-06-26 Thread dep
quoth Bill Campbell: | Aren't you targeting the wrong folks? Shouldn't you be heading | for my neighbor in Redmond? well, they bear some responsibility, sure, but leaving locks off the doors only makes the burglar's job easier -- it doesn't excuse the burglar. -- dep

Re: OT your_details

2003-06-26 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Chong Yu Meng: Same here. But I have found myself wondering, recently, what this particular virus does. Kind of like survivor guilt. Strange huh ? Strange, yes. In this particular case, though, I haven't felt a twinge of survivor guilt. More like gratitude it's someone else. ;-) Kurt

Re: Red Hat Advanced Workstation

2003-06-26 Thread Matthew Carpenter
I agree. One positive move by the KDE team is creating their own GUI tools. These are neither vendor- or version-specific (except of course the first release :) David's point is, of course, very valid. People don't want to know what they're doing, they just want it to work (for a little

Re: OT your_details

2003-06-26 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Not here. Still, the expression on some people's face when I mention that there are no Windows machines on my network... it's priceless. I just had a supervisor from a large firm ask me what kind of freeware existed for flowcharting. Apparently he deems me some sort of expert on Freeware. I

Re: OT your_details

2003-06-26 Thread Stuart Biggerstaff
Actually, it probably just distributes itself to a bunch of other people. And it presumably installs a limited backdoor on the system that someone can use for DDoS or untraceable hacking. Seems like most of the nasty things viruses do to infected machines these days are either because they

Re: OT your_details

2003-06-26 Thread dep
quoth Joel Hammer: | your_details.zip | | Does anyone know what this email attachment is? This is a zip file | which contains a pif file. It seems to be a windows targeted nasty. http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/virus/story/0,10801,82512,00.html?nas=AM-82512 The worm affects

Re: OT your_details

2003-06-26 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 12:05:57PM -0400, dep wrote: quoth Bill Campbell: | Aren't you targeting the wrong folks? Shouldn't you be heading | for my neighbor in Redmond? well, they bear some responsibility, sure, but leaving locks off the doors only makes the burglar's job easier -- it doesn't

Re: OT your_details

2003-06-26 Thread dep
quoth Bill Campbell: | I've always that the directors and officers of any public company | are guilty of malfeasance if they entrust sensitive data to | Windows. What would happen if bankers left the vault and doors | unlocked? they would be held accountable, or should be -- but that should in

Re: OT your_details

2003-06-26 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 01:24:52PM -0400, dep wrote: quoth Bill Campbell: | I've always that the directors and officers of any public company | are guilty of malfeasance if they entrust sensitive data to | Windows. What would happen if bankers left the vault and doors | unlocked? they would be

Re: OT your_details

2003-06-26 Thread Net Llama!
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Bill Campbell wrote: Hackers aren't the only thing that cause serious economic loss. The lost productivity waiting for Windows systems to reboot, even if there's no data loss, I did some rough calculations after reading an article that said United Parcel Service had

Re: OT your_details

2003-06-26 Thread dep
quoth Bill Campbell: | Hackers aren't the only thing that cause serious economic loss. | The lost productivity waiting for Windows systems to reboot, even | if there's no data loss, I did some rough calculations after | reading an article that said United Parcel Service had about | 160,000

Re: OT your_details

2003-06-26 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 01:52:55PM -0400, dep wrote: quoth Bill Campbell: | Hackers aren't the only thing that cause serious economic loss. | The lost productivity waiting for Windows systems to reboot, even | if there's no data loss, I did some rough calculations after | reading an article

Re: OT your_details

2003-06-26 Thread Michael Hipp
Bill Campbell wrote: In addition to job security these MCSEs are afraid they might have to learn something more than the 3 Rs of Microsoft, Reboot, Reboot, Reinstall. Hehe. Actually, those of us that have been around a while know it to be the 4 Rs: Reboot, Reboot, Reinstall, Replace ... with a

RE: OT your_details

2003-06-26 Thread Condon Thomas A KPWA
Michael Hipp wrote: Bill Campbell wrote: In addition to job security these MCSEs are afraid they might have to learn something more than the 3 Rs of Microsoft, Reboot, Reboot, Reinstall. Hehe. Actually, those of us that have been around a while know it to be the 4 Rs: Reboot,

XFS dump restore

2003-06-26 Thread kalkser
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RE: OT your_details

2003-06-26 Thread James McDonald
5, five rules to the Spanish Inqu... uh, Microshaft. Reboot, Reboot, Reinstall, Replace (hardware), Repurchase (upgrade software) Exactly I work at a riotinto company and we just got w2k installed and then they move to XP... net result no improvement in functionality... but it made the

Re: OT your_details

2003-06-26 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Michael Hipp: Bill Campbell wrote: In addition to job security these MCSEs are afraid they might have to learn something more than the 3 Rs of Microsoft, Reboot, Reboot, Reinstall. Hehe. Actually, those of us that have been around a while know it to be the 4 Rs: Reboot, Reboot,

Re: Two reasons I use Linux

2003-06-26 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Ben Duncan: Hmmm .. I think we just came up with a GOOD sig: Linux users brag on how long their system stays up, Window users assume it's a temporary condition ... Added to my fortune source file as: Linux users brag about how long their systems stay up; Window users know it's only a

iptables question

2003-06-26 Thread Rick Sivernell
I have the following error on boot into a new built system. iptabelw 1.2.8 invalid mask 70 specified. Any body know and tell me what I need to do to fix this. I basicly just down loaded and installed. Any help appreciaated cheers -- Rick Sivernell Dallas, Texas 75287 972 306-2296

Re: Two reasons I use Linux

2003-06-26 Thread dep
quoth Kurt Wall: | Linux users brag about how long their systems stay up; Window | users know it's only a temporary condition. Now! Viagra for Windows! Get it up, keep it up! also Now! Monica for Linux. When you *want* your computer to go down! -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside