Speaking of the Jurassic Era, no brainers, scams and spoofs there used to be a lot of BS on this board about Craphophones--gratefully those discussions have ended. Has this apple/windows discussion taken its place? I for one am pleased to find that both companies have seen fit not to remove the delete key.
Please respectfully take these non-phonograph topics out back and discuss them in private or find a different soap box. Mark > [Original Message] > From: Rich <rich-m...@octoxol.com> > To: Antique Phonograph List <phono-l@oldcrank.org> > Date: 11/22/2006 9:54:09 PM > Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Ebay Watched Item relisted spoof??? > > I will have to wave the internet BS flag on that one. Sorry, I was there and have seen a good > many quite malicious Apple /Mac viruses of the late 80s and early 90s. > > And, OS X is unix and unix is devilishly difficult to generate a self sustaining virus for. It is > not impossible but it can not be done with some no brainer script that you email to someone. > Remember the internet worms that crashed all of the high power servers a couple of years > ago? That was a unix based memory test program from the way back years that was packaged > to run as a bot on a unix box and propagate. It was written before networks and internet so no > one ever considered what would happen if you loaded it onto a server.... > > The IBM OS, OS/2 also is almost totally immune to virus attack as it runs as a virtual > machine. > > On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:24:46 -0500, Jim Nichol wrote: > > >Huh? To quote an article on the Internet: > > >"Remember that throughout its entire lifespan, the total number of > >Mac viruses is below 100." > > >And of course, non of those were for OSX. > > >Jim > > > >On Nov 22, 2006, at 3:15 PM, Rich wrote: > > >> Well, Peter, if you remember back to the late 80s and early 90s the > >> Mac was the king of the > >> virus world and there were very few on the DOS / Windows side, it > >> is all a matter of > >> popularity more than anything else. Even Linux is not immune from > >> a virus attack. The best > >> defence for the windows users is to use any email program that is > >> not Outlook Express or > >> Outlook. > >> > >> The average victim is running windows XP without an up to date > >> anti virus program and a > >> decent fire wall and using Internet Explorer, and MS Outlook or MS > >> Outlook Express. > >> > >> Rich > >> > >> > >> On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:39:08 -0800, Peter Fraser wrote: > >> > >>> or you can do like the rest of us, and use your Mac (without worry or > >>> fear) to read or look at whatever you'd like. we don't do viruses on > >>> this side. > >> > >>> of course, never provide any info to anybody, no matter what platform > >>> you run. > >> > >>> On Nov 22, 2006, at 11:01 AM, Rich wrote: > >> > >>>> I will repeat several tings that have been said before but bear > >>>> repeating: > >>>> > >>>> 1) receive a message from "eBay"? then log onto eBay and go to "My > >>>> eBay" and look in "My > >>>> Messages" if it is there then deal with it there. If not then > >>>> perform a TRUE DELETE of the > >>>> message in your email IN BOX. Do not open or preview, just perform > >>>> a true delete. > >>>> > >>>> 2) You will have to check your email program to find out how to do > >>>> a true delete. Microsoft > >>>> Outlook and Outlook Express do not dewlete the message when you hit > >>>> the delete button so be > >>>> careful. > >>>> > >>>> Rich > >>>> > >>>> On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:33:22 -0500, Dan K wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> And I just got an "ebay" notice about somebody disputing an "item > >>>>> not received". It's a neat > >>>> trick, > >>>>> considering I have never listed anything on ebay. haha > >>>>> The links go through some kind of edu address in Mexico, then > >>>>> redirected gawdknowswhere. > >>>> Cute. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- > >>>>> From: "Robert Wright" <esrobe...@comcast.net> > >>>>> To: "Antique Phonograph List" <phono-l@oldcrank.org> > >>>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 4:43 AM > >>>>> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Ebay Watched Item relisted spoof??? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>> Definitely a scam. I get 'em sometimes regarding items I'd never > >>>>> bother to > >>>>> watch in the first place. But don't click on any of the links to > >>>>> make sure, > >>>>> just delete 'em. > >>>> > >>>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>>> Phono-L mailing list > >>>>> Phono-L@oldcrank.org > >>>> > >>>>> Phono-L Archive > >>>>> http://phono-l.oldcrank.org/archive/ > >>>> > >>>>> Support Phono-L > >>>>> http://www.cafepress.com/oldcrank > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> Phono-L mailing list > >>>> Phono-L@oldcrank.org > >>>> > >>>> Phono-L Archive > >>>> http://phono-l.oldcrank.org/archive/ > >>>> > >>>> Support Phono-L > >>>> http://www.cafepress.com/oldcrank > >> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Phono-L mailing list > >>> Phono-L@oldcrank.org > >> > >>> Phono-L Archive > >>> http://phono-l.oldcrank.org/archive/ > >> > >>> Support Phono-L > >>> http://www.cafepress.com/oldcrank > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Phono-L mailing list > >> Phono-L@oldcrank.org > >> > >> Phono-L Archive > >> http://phono-l.oldcrank.org/archive/ > >> > >> Support Phono-L > >> http://www.cafepress.com/oldcrank > > >_______________________________________________ > >Phono-L mailing list > >Phono-L@oldcrank.org > > >Phono-L Archive > >http://phono-l.oldcrank.org/archive/ > > >Support Phono-L > >http://www.cafepress.com/oldcrank > > > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > Phono-L@oldcrank.org > > Phono-L Archive > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org/archive/ > > Support Phono-L > http://www.cafepress.com/oldcrank
