Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-programming (24 mails)

[Siobhan <smd2002@xxxxxxx>]

You guys are awesome. Thanks for your quick response...
Siobhan


On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 18:32, John Lamb wrote:
> Siobhan wrote:
> > I am running version 9 Suse Pro. I have been informed by a work mate
> > that a piece of email I sent was identified to have the sober.32 worm. I
> > never ever open attachments & I thought my security config.was tight.
> 
> Assuming this was not on April 1...
> 
> I get this sort of thing too from time to time. If you're using SuSE 9.0 
> to send mail, the chances are you didn't send the email. More likely 
> either some third party with both your names in an Outlook Express 
> addressbook send it, or someone got your email from a web page and just 
> used it as the starting point for a virus - that has happened to me too.
> 
> If you've got the personal firewall installed, it easier for someone to 
> nail jelly to the ceiling with a drawing pin/thumb tack than to use your 
> box to send viruses.
> 
> > a
> > I have been caught totally unprepared how to locate it & then to remove
> > it.
> 
> You don't have it.
> 
> > Also,what to install so that I am not caught with me knickers down
> > around me ankles.
> 
> Either some good elastic or a 5-lever mortice lock, depending on where 
> you see the risks.
> 
> En passant (excuse my chess), this message might have been better sent 
> to SuSE-linux-e.
> 
> -- 
> JDL