Re: New to the BAT, virus question - SOT

2000-12-27 Thread Douglas Hinds
Hello Thomas other fellow TB! Users following this somewhat ot thread about viruses, Tuesday, December 26, 2000, you stated regarding : TF "You should have paid and gotten the key, then your PC wouldn't TF be down the drain" kind of way. LOL! I downloaded a free key. But I decided to wait

Re: New to the BAT, virus question

2000-12-26 Thread Douglas Hinds
Hello fellow TB! Users following this thread about viruses and TB!: It might be of interest that using an unregistered free version of DrWeb antivirus software (www.drweb.ru or www.dials.ru), that contains a SpIDer Guard feature that (evidently) monitors email downloads, informed me that the

Re: New to the BAT, virus question

2000-12-26 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hallo Douglas, On Tue, 26 Dec 2000 10:12:03 -0600 GMT (27/12/2000, 00:12 +0800 GMT), Douglas Hinds wrote: DH That was fine. But I've need to run an evaluation key in order for DH it to let me program it to cure or delete or rename the bug. As is DH it only lets me lock up or shut down, not

Re: New to the BAT, virus question

2000-12-25 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hallo Marck, On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 16:11:29 + GMT (21/12/2000, 00:11 +0800 GMT), Marck D. Pearlstone wrote: DM What I want to know is about its virus protection system and spam DM mail. OE is targetted for viruses (using its address book) either DM b/c it is known or vulnerable or both. Is

Re: New to the BAT, virus question

2000-12-25 Thread Karin Spaink
On 25-12-2000 at 17:02, Thomas Fernandez kindly wrote: OK, here we go: I got infected by the JS_SEEKER.A trojan (File Name: RUNME.HTA (..) Oh, and I recommend updating "now" to everybody, as this thing is new and had not been detected by the pattern updated on 19 December. McAfee doesn't

Re: New to the BAT, virus question

2000-12-25 Thread Marck D. Pearlstone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Thomas, On 25 December 2000 at 00:02:05 +0800 (which was 16:02 where I live) Thomas Fernandez wrote and made these points: TF OK, here we go: I got infected by the JS_SEEKER.A trojan Infected? I don't think so... TF (File Name: RUNME.HTA -

Re: New to the BAT, virus question

2000-12-25 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hallo Marck, On Mon, 25 Dec 2000 17:03:57 + GMT (26/12/2000, 01:03 +0800 GMT), Marck D. Pearlstone wrote: TF OK, here we go: I got infected by the JS_SEEKER.A trojan MDP Infected? I don't think so... It was suddenly announced by PC-Cillin as being active - while I was offline. TF (File

Re: New to the BAT, virus question

2000-12-25 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hallo Marck, On Mon, 25 Dec 2000 17:03:57 + GMT (26/12/2000, 01:03 +0800 GMT), Marck D. Pearlstone wrote: registry settings to two files, "backup1.reg" and "backup2.reg" in the Windows directory. No such files. Also, no more .hta files. What does this extension mean anyway? -- Cheers,

Re: New to the BAT, virus question

2000-12-25 Thread Mark Aston
Hi Thomas, Monday, December 25, 2000, 6:43:04 PM, you wrote: MDP It doesn't need to. You don't get *infected* by a virus until it is MDP executed. This is a fact. It has been executed. Not triggered by me double-clicking on it. I am the only one who has access to my TB. A HTA file is a

Re: New to the BAT, virus question

2000-12-25 Thread Manfred Ell
On 25-12-2000 at 02:43:04GMT +0800 (which was 18:43 where I live) Thomas Fernandez wrote regarding the subject of "New to the BAT, virus question" MDP I disagree. I haven't been caught by a virus since using TB. I use my MDP own intelligence to know what attachments may b

Re: New to the BAT, virus question

2000-12-25 Thread A . Curtis Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 25 Dec 2000 19:23:25 +, Manfred Ell graced us with these comments: [..trim..] ME I agree with you here, a good AV program is *never* superfluous. TB ME isn't the *only* program running accessing the internet and there are ME always the

Re: New to the BAT, virus question

2000-12-25 Thread Marck D. Pearlstone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Thomas, On 25 December 2000 at 02:43:04 +0800 (which was 18:43 where I live) Thomas Fernandez wrote and made these points: TF It was suddenly announced by PC-Cillin as being active - while I was TF offline. TB cannot have activated it. Only the

Re: New to the BAT, virus question

2000-12-25 Thread Marck D. Pearlstone
Hi Allie, On 26 December 2000 at 19:31:54 -0500 (which was 00:31 where I live) A . Curtis Martin wrote and made these points: ME I agree with you here, a good AV program is *never* superfluous. TB ME isn't the *only* program running accessing the internet and there are ME always the floppy

Re: New to the BAT, virus question

2000-12-25 Thread A . Curtis Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 26 Dec 2000 01:20:20 +, Marck D. Pearlstone graced us with these comments: [..trim..] ACM ... they simply cannot run the attachments but only can view them ACM or scan them for viruses. MDP I wouldn't like that :-). Yeah, I know. I

Re[2]: New to the BAT, virus question

2000-12-25 Thread John Seymour
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Marck, Monday, December 25, 2000, 8:20:20 PM, you wrote: MDP Hi Allie, MDP On 26 December 2000 at 19:31:54 -0500 (which was 00:31 where I MDP live) A . Curtis Martin wrote and made these points: ACM I don't think Marck is or ever was

Re: New to the BAT, virus question

2000-12-25 Thread Marck D. Pearlstone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi John, On 26 December 2000 at 20:54:37 -0500 (which was 01:54 where I live) John Seymour wrote and made these points: ACM .. TB! will not execute malicious java script in HTML e-mail. ACM That's all he was saying. JS This may be totally off

Re[2]: New to the BAT, virus question

2000-12-25 Thread John Seymour
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Marck, Monday, December 25, 2000, 8:20:20 PM, you wrote: MDP MDP Wscript.KakWorm MDP VBS.KakWorm spreads using Microsoft Outlook Express. It attaches Sorry Marck, I did not mean to put you as quoting this. - -- Best regards, John

Re: New to the BAT, virus question

2000-12-25 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hi Marck, On Tue, 26 Dec 2000 01:15:18 +GMT (26/12/2000, 09:15 +0800GMT), Marck D. Pearlstone wrote: MDP It doesn't need to. You don't get *infected* by a virus until it MDP is executed. This is a fact. TF It has been executed. MDP I disagree. TF Not triggered by me double-clicking on

Re: New to the BAT, virus question

2000-12-25 Thread Marck D. Pearlstone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi John, On 26 December 2000 at 21:21:18 -0500 (which was 02:21 where I live) John Seymour wrote and made these points: MDP Wscript.KakWorm MDP VBS.KakWorm spreads using Microsoft Outlook Express. It attaches JS Sorry Marck, I did not mean to

Re: New to the BAT, virus question

2000-12-25 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hi Marck and John, On Tue, 26 Dec 2000 02:13:50 +GMT (26/12/2000, 10:13 +0800GMT), Marck D. Pearlstone wrote: JS This may be totally off topic, It still goes to a security hole in JS outlook express but this is a virus that does not have to be executed JS by clicking. MDP That is not true

New to the BAT, virus question

2000-12-20 Thread Daniel Morton
Hello TBUDL, and thanks for all your quick responses to my reply message template question. I was using Outlook and got a virus so my life was ruined for a week. I then tried Netscape and thought I would have to buy more ram to send emails to my mother. I looked Eudora and people were

Re: New to the BAT, virus question

2000-12-20 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hallo Daniel, On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 16:49:47 +0100 GMT (20/12/2000, 23:49 +0800 GMT), Daniel Morton wrote: DM and thanks for all your quick responses to my reply message template DM question. Welcome to TBUDL. :-) DM Is The Bat address book and file attachment system and whatever DM else

Re: New to the BAT, virus question

2000-12-20 Thread Beat Strasser
Hi Daniel and thanks for all your quick responses to my reply message template question. I was using Outlook and got a virus so my life was ruined for a week. I then tried Netscape and thought I would have to buy more ram to send emails to my mother. ...what a true word! ;) were

Re: New to the BAT, virus question

2000-12-20 Thread Manfred Ell
On 20-12-2000 at 16:49:47GMT +0100 (which was 15:49 where I live) Daniel Morton wrote regarding the subject of "New to the BAT, virus question" Daniel I was using Outlook and got a virus so my life was ruined Daniel for a week. I then tried Netscape and thought I would have to

Re: New to the BAT, virus question

2000-12-20 Thread Marck D. Pearlstone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Daniel, On 20 December 2000 at 16:49:47 +0100 (which was 15:49 where I live) Daniel Morton wrote and made these points: DM What I want to know is about its virus protection system and spam DM mail. OE is targetted for viruses (using its address

Re: New to the BAT, virus question

2000-12-20 Thread Marck D. Pearlstone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Thomas, On 20 December 2000 at 00:02:12 +0800 (which was 16:02 where I live) Thomas Fernandez wrote and made these points: DM and how about spam mail, what can I do to stop it coming through? TF You can do this with a filtering string. I think

Re: New to the BAT, virus question

2000-12-20 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hallo Marck, On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 16:25:40 + GMT (21/12/2000, 00:25 +0800 GMT), Marck D. Pearlstone wrote: TF You can do this with a filtering string. I think it should be in the TF FAQ (www.faq.thebat.dutaint.com), MDP ? MDP I think you mean http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/FAQ.html I

Re: New to the BAT, virus question

2000-12-20 Thread Syafril Hermansyah
Hello Marck D. Pearlstone, Responding to your article on Wed, 20 Dec 2000 at 16:25:40 GMT + (which was 20/12/2000 23:25 GMT +0700 my Local Time) : TF You can do this with a filtering string. I think it should be in the TF FAQ (www.faq.thebat.dutaint.com), MDP ? MDP I think you mean