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Carl William Spitzer IV

10 May 2004 10 May '04

00:44

I only use this address from the *nix side. someone else is infected and blasting away from their addressbook. CWSIV On Sun, 2004-05-09 at 05:42, postmaster@linuxsimulations.org wrote:

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Our viruschecker found the

Worm/NetSky.P

virus in your email to the following recipient:

-> startux@linuxsimulations.org

Delivery of the email was stopped!

Please check your system for viruses, or ask your system administrator to do so.

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From cwsiv@myrealbox.com ------------------------- BEGIN HEADERS ----------------------------- Received: from linuxsimulations.org (unknown [195.8.26.52]) by barn.linuxsimulations.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35623149FE for ; Sun, 9 May 2004 05:42:29 -0700 (PDT) From: cwsiv@myrealbox.com To: startux@linuxsimulations.org Subject: Re: Hi Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 12:47:47 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0016----=_NextPart_000_0016" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Message-Id: <20040509124229.35623149FE@barn.linuxsimulations.org> -------------------------- END HEADERS ------------------------------

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Mark

10 May 10 May

10:02

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Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

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I only use this address from the *nix side. someone else is infected and blasting away from their addressbook.

I've been getting the same ones for two days now. Naughty boy! :) Fish

Sid Boyce

10:59

New subject: [SLE] Someone subscribed via Win32 is infected

Mark wrote:

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Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

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I only use this address from the *nix side. someone else is infected and blasting away from their addressbook.

I've been getting the same ones for two days now. Naughty boy!

:)

Fish

Especially after Uncle Bill taught them to keep updated always as it stops the next bunch of nasties still in the works. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer Linux Only Shop.

Carlos E. R.

11 May 11 May

15:25

New subject: [SLE] Someone subscribed via Win32 is infected

The Monday 2004-05-09 at 16:44 -0700, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

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I only use this address from the *nix side. someone else is infected and blasting away from their addressbook.

Is that all? Welcome to the club! :-P The "infection" is worldwide, most people receive dozens, if not hundreds, of those everyday, of many sizes and flavours. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

Carl William Spitzer IV

13 May 13 May

06:32

New subject: [SLE] Someone subscribed via Win32 is infected

I expect better of the people on this list even when stuck using win32. The only problem might be an office where win32 is maintained as policy and anti virus software is not maintained. I know people here would care for their own machines properly. I keep my win32 drive inactive when not needed it cant cause problems. CWSIV On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 07:25, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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The Monday 2004-05-09 at 16:44 -0700, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

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I only use this address from the *nix side. someone else is infected and blasting away from their addressbook.

Is that all? Welcome to the club! :-P

The "infection" is worldwide, most people receive dozens, if not hundreds, of those everyday, of many sizes and flavours.

-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

Sid Boyce

11:37

New subject: [SLE] Someone subscribed via Win32 is infected

Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

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I expect better of the people on this list even when stuck using win32. The only problem might be an office where win32 is maintained as policy and anti virus software is not maintained. I know people here would care for their own machines properly. I keep my win32 drive inactive when not needed it cant cause problems.

CWSIV

<STUFF DELETED> The virus/worm writers know they are always one step ahead, so being bang up-to-date on the antivirus side is no guarantee as evidenced by my erstwhile employer where they were paranoid about keeping antivirus bang up to date, but suffered major damage on more than one occasion. May be they could have been more proactive with MS patch updates as typically the virus created havoc, then the fix got applied. Vulnerability due to holes with no available fixes until after the infection spreads being another headache. It ain't pretty at all, but it comes with the territory and people in corporate-land learn to live with it and loathe Linux. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer Linux Only Shop.

Carlos E. R.

13:15

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The Thursday 2004-05-12 at 22:32 -0700, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

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I expect better of the people on this list even when stuck using win32. The only problem might be an office where win32 is maintained as policy and anti virus software is not maintained.

You forget cybercafes. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

Carl William Spitzer IV

14 May 14 May

22:52

New subject: [SLE] Someone subscribed via Win32 is infected

Yup I forgot about the whore houses of the net. I wish myrealbox.com was taking subscribers they have a nice setup for online mail. CWSIV On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 05:15, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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The Thursday 2004-05-12 at 22:32 -0700, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

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I expect better of the people on this list even when stuck using win32. The only problem might be an office where win32 is maintained as policy and anti virus software is not maintained.

You forget cybercafes.

-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

Patrick Shanahan

15 May 15 May

00:05

New subject: [SLE] Someone subscribed via Win32 is infected

* Carl William Spitzer IV [05-14-04 16:56]:

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Yup I forgot about the whore houses of the net.

I wish myrealbox.com was taking subscribers they have a nice setup for online mail.

They do a very *poor* job of filtering spam and virii. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711

Carl William Spitzer IV

16 May 16 May

23:56

New subject: [SLE] Someone subscribed via Win32 is infected

So far I have not had a problem. I have had plenty from a repeater other than bigfoot. CWSIV On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 16:05, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Carl William Spitzer IV [05-14-04 16:56]:

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Yup I forgot about the whore houses of the net.

I wish myrealbox.com was taking subscribers they have a nice setup for online mail.

They do a very *poor* job of filtering spam and virii. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711

Carlos E. R.

15 May 15 May

10:09

New subject: [SLE] Someone subscribed via Win32 is infected

The Friday 2004-05-14 at 14:52 -0700, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

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You forget cybercafes.

Yup I forgot about the whore houses of the net.

X-) That's an exageration - for example, they are usefull when out of home, for using email, which is cheaper than phoning friends. But how can they help been such a virii hole, if they use windows? :-P -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

Carl William Spitzer IV

16 May 16 May

23:56

New subject: [SLE] Someone subscribed via Win32 is infected

Yes you would think they would learn their lesson about using overpriced virus friendly programs. The general public would have to be taught the basics of KDE but IMHO most windows people could figure it out we just have to show them which is the start icon. CWSIV On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 02:09, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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The Friday 2004-05-14 at 14:52 -0700, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

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You forget cybercafes.

Yup I forgot about the whore houses of the net.

X-)

That's an exageration - for example, they are usefull when out of home, for using email, which is cheaper than phoning friends.

But how can they help been such a virii hole, if they use windows? :-P

-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

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