Re: [ql-users] Virus Alert (Slightly OT but a good read none the less !)

2001-12-08 Thread Roy Wood
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Norman Dunbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Roy, thanks for the details - we are actually covered and it wasn't an HTML email this time either. We were in the middle of updating the dat files when we got hit. Investigations (aka witch hunt ??) has found this total

Re: [ql-users] Virus Alert

2001-12-08 Thread Roy Wood
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Claude Mourier 00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes With virus like Badtrans, no need to use HTML nor execute attached piece : only opening the mail is sufficent to be infected...with Outlook (not patched, but how basic user knows what is a patch ?) Not if it is a plain

Re: [ql-users] Virus Alert

2001-12-06 Thread Roy Wood
There is a new nasty going around called GONER and our business was seriously hit yesterday afternoon at 17:30. If you get any emails where the subject is 'Hi' then immediately delete them. If you run M$ Lookout or Lookout Express, make sure you turn your preview pane off as this is enough to

RE: [ql-users] Virus Alert

2001-12-05 Thread Claude Mourier 00
Not SMSQ/E ? ;-) -Message d'origine- De : Norman Dunbar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoyé : mercredi 5 décembre 2001 09:24 À : '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Objet : [ql-users] Virus Alert (...) I have a task on my list to investigate Linux as an alternative desktop system for the business - more

RE: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)

2001-06-27 Thread Norman Dunbar
-Original Message- From: Tony Firshman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 10:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !) I don't run M$ mail programs - that is the reason I don't spread them! At work, I have no option - Outlook

Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)

2001-06-27 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] , Norman Dunbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes -Original Message- From: Tony Firshman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 10:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !) I don't run M$ mail programs

Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)

2001-06-26 Thread Tony Firshman
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 at 19:09:20, you wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Original Message - From: Norman Dunbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !) I got a private email Geoff. Thanks, also to Tony. The reason I posed this question was that you

RE: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)

2001-06-25 Thread Norman Dunbar
Sorry Richard, I missed those out :o) Norman. Norman Dunbar EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Database/Unix administrator Phone: 0113 289 6265 Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. Fax:0113 201 7265

RE: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)

2001-06-25 Thread Norman Dunbar
:http://www.LynxFinancialSystems.com -Original Message- From: Geoff Wicks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 7:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Virus alert

Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)

2001-06-24 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Timothy Swenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I hate to continue this off topic issue and I dislike Microsoft as much as the next person, but the real Outlook issue is that the default options for Outlook are very unsecure. Most users are not aware of the security

Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)

2001-06-23 Thread Geoff Wicks
Just a query on this thread. Did the people who received the virus email get it via an email from the ql-users group or via a private email? Geoff Wicks [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)

2001-06-22 Thread John Hitchcock
SNIP Anyway it will only affect people who are foolish enough to run M$ mailers. SNIP Tony, that will only stop it from spreading outward from your, ahem, PC. It won't stop it running its payload - which is apparently to delete a few files at random then later on, format your hard drive(s).

Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)

2001-06-22 Thread Richard Zidlicky
SNIP Anyway it will only affect people who are foolish enough to run M$ mailers. SNIP Tony, that will only stop it from spreading outward from your, ahem, PC. It won't stop it running its payload - which is apparently to delete a few files at random then later on, format your hard

Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)

2001-06-22 Thread Timothy Swenson
At 07:06 PM 6/22/2001 +0200, you wrote: Suffice to say, that last month about 80% messages were in search of a solution for an MS Outlook problem and now the next purely MS problem. IMHO this can be either because MS does have only braindamaged users or because the software is braindamaged. I

Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)

2001-06-22 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Zidlicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes SNIP Anyway it will only affect people who are foolish enough to run M$ mailers. SNIP Tony, that will only stop it from spreading outward from your, ahem, PC. It won't stop it running its payload - which is

Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)

2001-06-21 Thread Tony Firshman
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 at 12:38:38, you wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) I only had the jokes and the exe file. There was no report on mine. Mind you, this virus (is a worm) and burrows into your system then hijacks Outlook to send itself areound to everyone in your address book - so it could have

RE: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax)

2001-06-21 Thread Norman Dunbar
-Original Message- From: William Newell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 2:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax) Hi Everybody, Now that I have successfully purged my system of virus(s), I feel it is safe to admit being

Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)

2001-06-20 Thread Tony Firshman
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 at 10:32:07, you wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) I received an email yesterday from a William Newell esq (aka Bill !) which has a couple of jokes on it, and an exe file. My work's email scanner detected that the exe was full of virus and deleted it from the email. If you

RE: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)

2001-06-20 Thread Norman Dunbar
-Original Message- From: Tony Firshman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 11:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !) The source was Credit Suisse

Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)

2001-06-20 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] , Norman Dunbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I only had the jokes and the exe file. There was no report on mine. Mind you, this virus (is a worm) and burrows into your system then hijacks Outlook to send itself areound to everyone in your address book - so it could have