28 Mar
1999
28 Mar
'99
8:52 p.m.
OK, this is totally off topic, but if you haven't heard the weekends news
I'd recommend checking out the following URL:
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/special/melissavirus.html
Normally I discount these as hoaxes, but this isn't. Thankfully I'm one of
the 'Dinosaurs' at work that refuses to give up an antique RS/6000 for a
nice shiny new NT box, so I'm still on UNIX e-mail.
The problem in a nutshell, don't open any messages in a Microsoft E-Mail
program with the following title "Important Message From: {persons name}".
Zane
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28 Mar
28 Mar
9:01 p.m.
OK, this is totally off topic, but if you haven't heard the weekends news
I'd recommend checking out the following URL:
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/special/melissavirus.html
Normally I discount these as hoaxes, but this isn't. Thankfully I'm one of
the 'Dinosaurs' at work that refuses to give up an antique RS/6000 for a
nice shiny new NT box, so I'm still on UNIX e-mail.
The problem in a nutshell, don't open any messages in a Microsoft E-Mail
program with the following title "Important Message From: {persons name}".
Nope, no hoax. I got a CERT advisory on this one.
--
Jim Strickland
jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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29 Mar
29 Mar
9:28 a.m.
At 08:01 PM 03/28/1999 -0700, you wrote:
Yes, this one's for real. Some bozo has written a spawning macro virus.
I don't think that it's limited to MS Outlook products though, the macro
would be executed if the *.doc attachment is opened with MS Word which
automatically runs the virus.
Recommend if your running a Winblows box with e-mail of any kind and MS
Word to associate all files ending in "doc" with QuickView or WordPad
(eliminates the macro execution).
It won't be long before some other idiot takes the guts of this macro and
changes it, so the "Important message from" will not be an indicator.
BTW, the thing is harmless to the resident computer. So far it just
generates a ton of infected e-mails.
jax(a)tvec.net
The problem in
a nutshell, don't open any messages in a Microsoft E-Mail
program with the following title "Important Message From: {persons name}".
Nope, no hoax. I got a CERT advisory on this one.
--
Jim Strickland
jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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1:01 p.m.
At 09:28 AM 3/29/99 -0600, you wrote:
At 08:01 PM 03/28/1999 -0700, you wrote:
>> The problem in a nutshell, don't open any messages in a Microsoft E-Mail
>> program with the following title "Important Message From: {persons
name}".
>
>Nope, no hoax. I got a CERT advisory on this one.
Yeap, I gotten a warning about it from both USAF and NASA this morning.
Joe
28 Mar
28 Mar
11:29 p.m.
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Zane H. Healy wrote:
OK, this is totally off topic, but if you haven't
heard the weekends news
I'd recommend checking out the following URL:
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/special/melissavirus.html
Normally I discount these as hoaxes, but this isn't. Thankfully I'm one of
the 'Dinosaurs' at work that refuses to give up an antique RS/6000 for a
nice shiny new NT box, so I'm still on UNIX e-mail.
The problem in a nutshell, don't open any messages in a Microsoft E-Mail
program with the following title "Important Message From: {persons name}".
Since I don't run MS-Word on anything at home, and I don't care about
the Windows machines in my cube at work, I just don't worry about it.
There doesn't seem to be much in the way of email viruses that affect
a guy who reads it through a telnet connection.
--
Ward Griffiths
"the timid die just like the daring; and if you don't take the plunge then
you'll just take the fall" Michael Longcor
11:48 p.m.
At 06:52 PM 3/28/99 -0800, you wrote:
OK, this is totally off topic, but if you haven't
heard the weekends news
I'd recommend checking out the following URL:
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/special/melissavirus.html
Normally I discount these as hoaxes, but this isn't. Thankfully I'm one of
the 'Dinosaurs' at work that refuses to give up an antique RS/6000 for a
nice shiny new NT box, so I'm still on UNIX e-mail.
The problem in a nutshell, don't open any messages in a Microsoft E-Mail
program with the following title "Important Message From: {persons name}".
Zane
| Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Adminstrator |
| healyzh(a)aracnet.com (primary) | Linux Enthusiast |
| healyzh(a)holonet.net (alternate) | Classic Computer Collector |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
| and Zane's Computer Museum. |
| http://www.dragonfire.net/~healyzh/ |
29 Mar
29 Mar
11:47 a.m.
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4:18 p.m.
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Tony Duell wrote:
Yup. ROMs and ROM images from back when BillG was actually
coding are mostly OK (the Mod 100 is supposedly the last time he
actually wrote code), and such things as extensions to the ROM
to let it access disk. But as soon as I finish converting some
spreadsheets to StarOffice, Excell goes and at that point I'll
probably fiddling with Wine.
--
Ward Griffiths
"the timid die just like the daring; and if you don't take the plunge then
you'll just take the fall" Michael Longcor
The problem in
a nutshell, don't open any messages in a Microsoft E-Mail
program with the following title "Important Message From: {persons name}".
Don't worry, I won't. In fact I won't use (modern) Microsoft <anything>
for any purpose ;-)
5:50 p.m.
Ward Griffiths proclaimed
to let it access disk. But as soon as I finish
converting some
spreadsheets to StarOffice, Excell goes and at that point I'll
probably fiddling with Wine.
Check out http://www.vmware.com instead. It's one of the coolist bits of
software I've seen on the PC. Just what Linux needs to run Microsoft apps.
Finally a way that your system doesn't get taken down when Windows crashes!
Zane
| Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Adminstrator |
| healyzh(a)aracnet.com (primary) | Linux Enthusiast |
| healyzh(a)holonet.net (alternate) | Classic Computer Collector |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
| and Zane's Computer Museum. |
| http://www.dragonfire.net/~healyzh/ |
30 Mar
30 Mar
8:38 a.m.
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Ward Griffiths proclaimed
>to let it access disk. But as soon as I finish converting some
>spreadsheets to StarOffice, Excell goes and at that point I'll
>probably fiddling with Wine.
Actually, that was supposed to be "I probably _quit_ fiddling with
Wine".
Check out http://www.vmware.com instead. It's one
of the coolist bits of
software I've seen on the PC. Just what Linux needs to run Microsoft apps.
Finally a way that your system doesn't get taken down when Windows crashes!
vmware looks interesting, but pricey. If I need to run something
other than Linux, I'll use another system for OS/2. Excell is
literally the _last_ Windows application I'm running.
--
Ward Griffiths
"the timid die just like the daring; and if you don't take the plunge then
you'll just take the fall" Michael Longcor
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