March 2000 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[SLE] how to kill happy park
by psims＠lombard.co.uk 06 Mar '00

06 Mar '00

here is info from the Symantic virus database on happypark.exe . Those of us like myself accessing this list via Outlook on an NT machine at work :( may find this valuable if they opened the attachment. I verified my registry as clean so as to avoid propagating the little bastard. ====================================================================== This worm program behaves similarly to Happy99 Worm. It was originally spread by email spamming from a French email address. The original report of this worm was submitted through our exclusive Scan&Deliver system on May 28, 1999 from France. When the attached program file, PrettyPark.exe, is executed, it may display the 3D pipe screen saver. It also creates a file called files32.vxd in the Windows\System directory and modifies the following registry entry value from "%1" %* to files32.vxd "%1" %* without your knowledge: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\exefile\ shell\open\command Once the worm program is executed, it tries to email itself automatically every 30 minutes (or 30 minutes after it is loaded) to email addresses registered in your Internet address book. It also tries to connect to an IRC server and join a specific IRC channel. The worm sends information to IRC every 30 seconds to keep itself connected, and to retrieve any commands from the IRC channel. Via IRC, the author or distributor of the worm can obtain system information including the computer name, product name, product identifier, product key, registered owner, registered organization, system root path, version, version number, ICQ identification numbers, ICQ nicknames, victim's email address, and Dial Up Networking username and passwords. In addition, being connected to IRC opens a security hole in which the client can potentially be used to receive and execute files. Repair Information To remove the PrettyPark worm: On the Windows taskbar, click Start > Run. Type REGEDIT, then click OK. Modify the following Registry value: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\exefile\ shell\open\command and change files32.vxd "%1" %* to "%1" %* For clarity, these seven characters are the following: double quote, percent sign, the numeral one, double quote, space, percent sign, and asterisk. Don't forget the space. Delete the PrettyPark.exe file. Restart your computer. Delete the \Windows\System\Files32.vxd file. Safe Computing Because of Worms and Trojan Horse programs, you must practice safe computing. Be suspicious of executable file attachments (for example, .exe, .shs, or MS Word, or MS Excel files), especially ones from newsgroups or unknown sources. For continuous protection, always run Norton AntiVirus Auto-Protect and use LiveUpdate to make sure you have the latest virus definitions. Norton AntiVirus users can protect themselves from this virus by downloading the current virus definitions either through LiveUpdate or from the Download Virus Definition Updates page. Write-up by: Raul K. Elnitiarta & Eric Chien June 1, 1999 Updated: February 28, 2000 Tell a Friend about this Write-Up "WorldSecure Server <lombard.co.uk>" made the following annotations on 03/06/00 13:26:16 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The opinions expressed within this email represent those of the individual and not necessarily those of Lombard. The contents of this Email may be privileged and are confidential. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee(s), nor copied in any way. If received in error, please advise the sender, then delete from your system. Should you wish to use Email as a mode of communication, Lombard are unable to guarantee the security of Email content outside of our own computer systems. ============================================================================== -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] libjpeg.so.62
by clarge＠macn.bc.ca 06 Mar '00

06 Mar '00

where can one find this file that will work with 6.3? I'm trying to get xmovie to work. *--------------------------------* | Chris Large clarge(a)macn.bc.ca | | http://gone for now | *--------------------------------* -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] test
by fgs＠epulse.net 06 Mar '00

06 Mar '00

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Re: [SLE] inquiry
by budr＠sirinet.net 06 Mar '00

06 Mar '00

AGC <acad(a)accefyn.org.co> writes: > I have just installed suse 6.3... I am very new to linux I must say > before all, well I have this questions: > > 1. as root I installed the staroffice and it works fine when I log in as > root, but I do not know how to use it when I log in as a usual user... > (I am not on any net, just my home pc) how can I use the staroffice when > I do not log in as root? (as a usual user I opened a terminal and typed > staroffice and it took me to the installation process of the star.... do > I have to install the office every time for all the users that may log > on my home pc? ) You do NOT have to do a full installation for each user. As root, do the installation with the /net option. This will install everything you need in /opt/Office51. That directory will be huge -- 150 megs or so. Then each individual user who wants to use StarOffice can do what is called I believe a 'workstation install'. That will make a /home/user/Office51 directory which has only their personal StarOffice files. Mine is currently about 15 megs. It contains all of my homework and papers from a couple of semesters of college work. My wife and my older son also have personal installations on this box. As I read the docs, if you have more than one machine on a LAN, you can actually do a /net install on one machine and serve any number of workstations on the network. I haven't tried that yet so I don't know how well it works. I think there is a numerical limit in the license (50 comes to mind but don't quote me on that), but the typical home user is not likely to reach it. Each individual user will need to register with StarDivision/Sun. The process is free and relatively painless. The first time you run SO a splash screen will come up and ask your name and address and so on. If you are online at the time, it will offer to register your installation automagically. If you agree it will happen in seconds and that will be the end of it. All of this is detailed in a README on the CD. I don't have my CD handy at the moment, so I can't tell you exactly where it is, but it's not hard to find. -- Bud Rogers <budr(a)sirinet.net> http://www.sirinet.net/~budr/zamm.html Though all my neighbors are barbarians, and you are a thousand miles away, there are always two cups on my table. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] libcomedi.a
by alex＠physical36.chem.ufl.edu 06 Mar '00

06 Mar '00

Hi list I am trying to compile a software package for EPR spectroscopy. Supposedly it runs fine on RH 6.1. Trying to compile it on my SuSE 6.3 system I get the following error message: gcc: /usr/lib/libcomedi.a: No such file or directory I am wondering to which package libcomedi.a belongs so that I can retrofit my box. Perhaps someone on the list has a clue on this? Thanks in advance for any help, Alex. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] Help! Can't implement firewall.
by vcardona＠home.com 06 Mar '00

06 Mar '00

('x-unknown' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) I have been trying to reinstall SuSE 6.2 and have run into a little difficulty. I am able to perform all of the upgrades, and recompile the latest kernel. I then setup a firwall and masquerading. Unfortunately, when I reboot masquerading and firewalling fail to start. The error message says that firewalling and masquerade support is not enabled in the kernel, but I have compiled it in. Unfortunately, this somehow causes my NIC cards to not work. They are configured correctly, and are activated, but refuse to function. I have checked the kernel again, and firewalling and masquerading is compiled in. I have run there is a modules.dep file in /lib/modules/2.2.14, but I keep getting a message in /var/log/messages that says the modprobe cannot open modules.dep because it does not exist. I have been able to configure this in the past with no problems, and cannot understand why it fails now. Can anyone please help? Thanks Victor -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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Re: [SLE] FW: [SLE] Plain text vs HTML text....
by pinard＠iro.umontreal.ca 06 Mar '00

06 Mar '00

Warrl <warrl(a)blarg.net> writes: > On Wed, 01 Mar 2000, Bob wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Warrl wrote: > > > My email client DOES handle HTML, but I set up a rule that spots > > > HTML messages and transfers them directly to the trash without ever > > > cluttering up the inbox. Why do you do that, if you can read them? For one, I do have a few correspondents who send HTML routinely, and are interesting guys nevertheless :-). It's true that most of my correspondents avoid HTML. > > If I read the headers correctly, we both use kmail 1.0.28. Mine does > > not handle the html but presents it as plain text. What do I set to > > change this? > I don't know, I just have a default install. Sometimes it renders > HTML, sometimes it shows me the code. I haven't seen a pattern - but > then I haven't looked for one. Even if not strictly mandated by MIME standards, the normal way for the sender is to send a multipart/alternative structure, with a text/plain rendering of the message appearing first, and a text/html version appearing later. MIME strictly says that the alternative selected is the last appearing one for which the mail user agent has all the needed machinery to display. So parts within the alternative are usually ordered by increasing "complexity". It means that if you cannot display HTML (or ask your mail user agent to not do it), the text version should get displayed. Given the current state of affairs, I consider rude that someone widely broadcasts an HTML message without at least a text/plain rendering of it. Nowadays, in my opinion, it is excusable (and even commandable? :-) that one expects everybody else to be MIME-aware, but still premature to expect everybody to use a mail reader able to render HTML. P.S. - This is merely out of memory, please correct me if wrong. -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] 3com509 weirdness
by dsoper＠clipper.net 06 Mar '00

06 Mar '00

Hi all, I went to set up a Samba print server today using 6.2. The box is an AST p90 with 24MB RAM. I put a 3com509 in the box and when I rebooted, I got the following message: /lib/modules/../3c509.o invalid parameter parm_io and the module failed to load. I looked in /etc/conf.modules and found: alias eth0 .... options 3c509 io=0x300 irq=10 as I configured it. I rebuilt the kernel and it didn't fix it. Neither did changing the card. Plug-n-pray is turned off and the card is configured at io=300 and irq=10. Anyone have an idea of what's wrong here? The card is a 3com509b TPO. Thanks in advance, Dennis "Custard pies are a sort of esperanto: a universal language." --Noel Godin -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] FW: Question about compiling KDE apps on Suse 6.3
by pierre.rochefort＠connectware.ca 06 Mar '00

06 Mar '00

Hi! I sent this a few days back and was wondering if anybody has any clue as to what I should try next? THanks in advance. Sincerely, Pierre -----Original Message----- From: Pierre Rochefort [SMTP:pierre.rochefort@connectware.ca] Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 10:14 AM To: 'SuSE Linux List (E-mail)' Subject: Question about compiling KDE apps on Suse 6.3 Hi! I tried compiling a KDE app under my freshly installed SuSE 6.3. I installed using Yast2 and everything seemed fine. Now when I try to compile KCommander for example, here is the error I get (See >> below). Since I did not recompile the KDE libs and QT myself, I'm wondering what I've done wrong. Has anyone had the same problem? Can anyone help me? Here is the output of ./configure: >> checking for kde libraries installed... configure: error: your system fails at linking a small KDE application! >> Check, if your compiler is installed correctly and if you have used the >> same compiler to compile Qt and kdelibs as you did use now Thanks Pierre -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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Re: [SLE] HELP (again :-/) ?hardware err???
by bartosh＠ocean.tamu.edu 06 Mar '00

06 Mar '00

Booting from CD or Floppy fails like this: SYSLINUX 1.4 80x3812e44a by: someon's name Boot Failed Please Replace disk and continue. ___ What's weird is that the first time I tried to boot from a floppy- just like the first time I tried to boot from cdrom- it worked. And I reran lilo, etc- mounted all the partitions. Subsequent boots fail. Bad hardware?? I swapped out ram and removed the cmoss battery for awhile. On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Chris Reeves wrote: > Michael Bartosh wrote: > > > > I cannot start from the cd anymore- I hadn't been playing w/ the system > > geometry at all (I had been compiling a kernel). Neither can I boot from > > an NT cd (blue screens)- so at this point I'm fairly woirried. > > > > It did noot from the cd once, but now fails to. > > Fails? Well, now is probably not the best time to sort that, unless you have > more information. > > Do you have any form of boot disk, either created during install, by yourself, > or supplied by SuSE? > > If you do, you should be able to boot off that. If you don't have a bootable > disk, you can create one from the SuSE CD. If you only have access to Windows, > you can use the program rawrite on the CD to write a boot disk image from the > /disks directory on the CD to a floppy disk, and boot off that. > > > On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Chris Reeves wrote: > > > > > Michael Bartosh wrote: > > > > > > > > On boot, after all POSTs go ok, lilo is dying. I have gotten something > > > > saying CRC error. Otherwise, it does this: > > > > > > > > LI- > > > > > > > > and freezes. > > > > > > > > This is a sudden predicament. I was rebooting and poof- it fails to come > > > > up. So I am htinking hardware error... but I can boot therescue CD just > > > > fine, and I can mount and manipulate the /, /usr and /var partitions > > > > perfectly. > > > > > > > > Or- it did once. It is no longer... > > > > > > I don't know if this is fixed yet or not... > > > > > > Does it say exactly "LI" or "LIL" or what? > > > > > > If it says just "LI", this is usually due to a problem with disk geometry or > > > something like that. Are you saying you haven't been playinng with it at all? > > > > > > Probably the best idea is to boot of the CD and start the rescue system, then > > > you can rerun LILO. That should fix it. > > Hope that helps, > Chris > -- > __ _ > -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves > /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 > _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ > -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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