Re: [ot_caving] FW: Internet Virus Alert - from Texas Sen. Dan Patrick

2008-11-12 Thread Charles Goldsmith 
If you follow anti-virus and trojan news any at all, you will see
hundreds or thousands of new ones introduced daily.  Symantec, McAfee
and all of the major antivirus vendors keep up to date on them.  As
Don said, never open up attachments, even from people you know.

Charles

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Louise Power  wrote:
> There were two messages "to" me "from" me in my inbox this a.m. They both
> purported to be from MSN. I sent them both off to the phishing scam hell
> that Hotmail maintains. The apples didn't fall far from the tree in my case.
> Beware!!! BWA-HA-HA-HA!!!
>
> 
> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:07:51 -0600
> From: wavyca...@gmail.com
> To: fh...@townandcountryins.com
> CC: o...@texascavers.com; jeh...@aol.com; jhol...@hotmail.com;
> j_e_wag...@comcast.net; jim...@gvtc.com; jh...@carlsonwagonlit.com;
> badba...@sbcglobal.net; bl...@vownet.net; stephen_ashm...@merck.com;
> psulli...@second.org; m...@sbcglobal.net; hea...@satx.rr.com; fr...@iqbr.com
> Subject: Re: [ot_caving] FW: Internet Virus Alert - from Texas Sen. Dan
> Patrick
>
> CRIPES Fritz!  Do you also believe Barack Obama is a communist socialist
> terrorist muslim because some hack emailed you with something that said he
> was?  If you'd CHECKED 'snopes' you would have found there ain't nothing new
> about this 'virus'.
>
> Although it is a real virus - somewhere out there - keep your pants on.
> It's nothing new, and is nothing quite like it is described as.
>
> Simply don't open any emails with attachments from people you don't know.
> Better yet, don't open attachments from people YOU know either.  And
> WHATEVER you do - don't download any 'free software' promising to eliminate
> spyware from your computer or 'clean your registry'.  If you try and view a
> video file and get an offer for a upgraded video codec - run away - close
> your browser and stay away from that nasty site.  Above all - NEVER, EVER
> "ingest" any excecutable that you didn't ask for!
>
> Once again - an internet hoax worse than ANY possible virus!!!
>
> Well...  except for the Good Times Virus!
> Do NOT open any email with the title "Good Times"
>
> Goodtimes will re-write your hard drive. Not only that, but it will
> scramble any disks that are even close to your computer. It will
> recalibrate your refrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice cream
> goes melty. It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit cards,
> screw up the tracking on your television and use subspace field
> harmonics to scratch any CD's you try to play.
>
> It will give your ex-girlfriend your new phone number. It will mix
> Kool-aid into your fishtank. It will drink all your beer and leave
> its socks out on the coffee table when there's company coming over. It
> will put a dead kitten in the back pocket of your good suit pants and
> hide your car keys when you are late for work.
>
> Goodtimes will make you fall in love with a penguin. It will give you
> nightmares about circus midgets. It will pour sugar in your gas tank and
> shave off both your eyebrows while dating your current boyfriend behind
> your back and billing the dinner and hotel room to your Visa card.
>
> It will seduce your grandmother. It does not matter if she is dead, such
> is the power of Goodtimes, it reaches out beyond the grave to sully those
> things we hold most dear.
>
> It moves your car randomly around parking lots so you can't find it. It
> will kick your dog. It will leave libidinous messages on your boss's
> voice mail in your voice! It is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous and
> terrifying to behold. It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve.
>
> Goodtimes will give you Dutch Elm disease. It will leave the toilet seat
> up. It will make a batch of Methamphetamine in your bathtub and then
> leave bacon cooking on the stove while it goes out to chase
> gradeschooles with your new snowblower.
>
> -WaV
>
>
> FYI.
> Fritz Holt
> 
> From: Jane Parker
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 12:06 PM
> To: Katy Office; Galveston Dept
> Subject: FW: Internet Virus Alert - from Texas Sen. Dan Patrick
> 
> From: Bill Brooks [mailto:bbro...@oric-hb.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 10:27 AM
>
> 
> Subject: Internet Virus Alert - from Texas Sen. Dan Patrick
> Guess we had better heed this one and be careful.
> 
> From: Dan Patrick [mailto:danpatrick...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 7:23 PM
> Subject: Internet Virus Alert
>
> To my friends.  I jsut got this e-mail from our internet tech person.  If
> you have a PC you need to be on extra alert for this.
>
> PLEASE READ!!!
>
>
> http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/mailserver.asp
>  Subject: Please read and advise as many as possible
>
>
>
>

RE: [ot_caving] FW: Internet Virus Alert - from Texas Sen. Dan Patrick

2008-11-12 Thread Louise Power 

There were two messages "to" me "from" me in my inbox this a.m. They both 
purported to be from MSN. I sent them both off to the phishing scam hell that 
Hotmail maintains. The apples didn't fall far from the tree in my case. 
Beware!!! BWA-HA-HA-HA!!!

List-Post: texascavers@texascavers.com
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:07:51 -0600From: wavycaver@gmail.comTo: 
fholt@townandcountryins.comCC: o...@texascavers.com; jeh...@aol.com; 
jhol...@hotmail.com; j_e_wag...@comcast.net; jim...@gvtc.com; 
jh...@carlsonwagonlit.com; badba...@sbcglobal.net; bl...@vownet.net; 
stephen_ashm...@merck.com; psulli...@second.org; m...@sbcglobal.net; 
hea...@satx.rr.com; frank@iqbr.comSubject: Re: [ot_caving] FW: Internet Virus 
Alert - from Texas Sen. Dan PatrickCRIPES Fritz!  Do you also believe Barack 
Obama is a communist socialist terrorist muslim because some hack emailed you 
with something that said he was?  If you'd CHECKED 'snopes' you would have 
found there ain't nothing new about this 'virus'.  Although it is a real virus 
- somewhere out there - keep your pants on.  It's nothing new, and is nothing 
quite like it is described as.Simply don't open any emails with attachments 
from people you don't know.  Better yet, don't open attachments from people YOU 
know either.  And WHATEVER you do - don't download any 'free software' 
promising to eliminate spyware from your computer or 'clean your registry'.  If 
you try and view a video file and get an offer for a upgraded video codec - run 
away - close your browser and stay away from that nasty site.  Above all - 
NEVER, EVER "ingest" any excecutable that you didn't ask for!Once again - an 
internet hoax worse than ANY possible virus!!!Well...  except for the Good 
Times Virus!Do NOT open any email with the title "Good Times"Goodtimes will 
re-write your hard drive. Not only that, but it willscramble any disks that are 
even close to your computer. It willrecalibrate your refrigerator's coolness 
setting so all your ice creamgoes melty. It will demagnetize the strips on all 
your credit cards,screw up the tracking on your television and use subspace 
fieldharmonics to scratch any CD's you try to play.It will give your 
ex-girlfriend your new phone number. It will mixKool-aid into your fishtank. It 
will drink all your beer and leaveits socks out on the coffee table when 
there's company coming over. Itwill put a dead kitten in the back pocket of 
your good suit pants andhide your car keys when you are late for work.Goodtimes 
will make you fall in love with a penguin. It will give younightmares about 
circus midgets. It will pour sugar in your gas tank andshave off both your 
eyebrows while dating your current boyfriend behindyour back and billing the 
dinner and hotel room to your Visa card.It will seduce your grandmother. It 
does not matter if she is dead, suchis the power of Goodtimes, it reaches out 
beyond the grave to sully thosethings we hold most dear.It moves your car 
randomly around parking lots so you can't find it. Itwill kick your dog. It 
will leave libidinous messages on your boss'svoice mail in your voice! It is 
insidious and subtle. It is dangerous andterrifying to behold. It is also a 
rather interesting shade of mauve.Goodtimes will give you Dutch Elm disease. It 
will leave the toilet seatup. It will make a batch of Methamphetamine in your 
bathtub and thenleave bacon cooking on the stove while it goes out to 
chasegradeschooles with your new snowblower.-WaV
FYI.
Fritz Holt




From: Jane Parker Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 12:06 PMTo: Katy Office; 
Galveston DeptSubject: FW: Internet Virus Alert - from Texas Sen. Dan Patrick




From: Bill Brooks [mailto:bbro...@oric-hb.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 
10:27 AM




Subject: Internet Virus Alert - from Texas Sen. Dan Patrick
Guess we had better heed this one and be careful.  





From: Dan Patrick [mailto:danpatrick...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 10, 
2008 7:23 PMSubject: Internet Virus Alert
To my friends.  I jsut got this e-mail from our internet tech person.  If you 
have a PC you need to be on extra alert for this.  
PLEASE READ!!! http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/mailserver.asp  Subject: 
Please read and advise as many as possible

Re: [ot_caving] FW: Internet Virus Alert - from Texas Sen. Dan Patrick

2008-11-11 Thread Don Cooper 
CRIPES Fritz!  Do you also believe Barack Obama is a communist socialist
terrorist muslim because some hack emailed you with something that *said he
was*?  If you'd CHECKED 'snopes' you would have found there ain't nothing
new about this 'virus'.

Although it is a real virus - somewhere out there - keep your pants on.
It's nothing new, and is nothing quite like it is described as.

Simply don't open any emails with attachments from people you don't know.
Better yet, don't open attachments from people YOU know either.  And
WHATEVER you do - don't download any 'free software' promising to eliminate
spyware from your computer or 'clean your registry'.  If you try and view a
video file and get an offer for a upgraded video codec - run away - close
your browser and stay away from that nasty site.  Above all - NEVER, EVER
"ingest" any excecutable that you didn't ask for!

Once again - an internet hoax worse than ANY possible virus!!!

Well...  except for the Good Times Virus!
Do NOT open any email with the title "Good Times"

Goodtimes will re-write your hard drive. Not only that, but it will
scramble any disks that are even close to your computer. It will
recalibrate your refrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice cream
goes melty. It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit cards,
screw up the tracking on your television and use subspace field
harmonics to scratch any CD's you try to play.

It will give your ex-girlfriend your new phone number. It will mix
Kool-aid into your fishtank. It will drink all your beer and leave
its socks out on the coffee table when there's company coming over. It
will put a dead kitten in the back pocket of your good suit pants and
hide your car keys when you are late for work.

Goodtimes will make you fall in love with a penguin. It will give you
nightmares about circus midgets. It will pour sugar in your gas tank and
shave off both your eyebrows while dating your current boyfriend behind
your back and billing the dinner and hotel room to your Visa card.

It will seduce your grandmother. It does not matter if she is dead, such
is the power of Goodtimes, it reaches out beyond the grave to sully those
things we hold most dear.

It moves your car randomly around parking lots so you can't find it. It
will kick your dog. It will leave libidinous messages on your boss's
voice mail in your voice! It is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous and
terrifying to behold. It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve.

Goodtimes will give you Dutch Elm disease. It will leave the toilet seat
up. It will make a batch of Methamphetamine in your bathtub and then
leave bacon cooking on the stove while it goes out to chase
gradeschooles with your new snowblower.

-WaV


FYI.

Fritz Holt
 --

*From:* Jane Parker
*Sent:* Tuesday, November 11, 2008 12:06 PM
*To:* Katy Office; Galveston Dept
*Subject:* FW: Internet Virus Alert - from Texas Sen. Dan Patrick
 --

*From:* Bill Brooks [mailto:bbro...@oric-hb.com]
*Sent:* Tuesday, November 11, 2008 10:27 AM
**
 --

*Subject:* Internet Virus Alert - from Texas Sen. Dan Patrick

Guess we had better heed this one and be careful.
 --

*From:* Dan Patrick [mailto:danpatrick...@gmail.com]
*Sent:* Monday, November 10, 2008 7:23 PM
*Subject:* Internet Virus Alert

To my friends.  I jsut got this e-mail from our internet tech person.  If
you have a PC you need to be on extra alert for this.

PLEASE READ!!!


http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/mailserver.asp
 *Subject: Please read and advise as many as possible
*

[ot_caving] FW: Internet Virus Alert - from Texas Sen. Dan Patrick

2008-11-11 Thread Fritz Holt 
FYI.
Fritz Holt


From: Jane Parker
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 12:06 PM
To: Katy Office; Galveston Dept
Subject: FW: Internet Virus Alert - from Texas Sen. Dan Patrick




From: Bill Brooks [mailto:bbro...@oric-hb.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 10:27 AM
To: Amy Acker; Bill Swanson; Bob Lowry; Bob Owen; Bonnie Welch; Brent Newton; 
Brian Reboul; Carolyn Luna; Cathy Moffett; Charles Sanford; Christine Smith; 
Clyde Hunt; Darrell Hauck; 'DONALD WEBSTER'; Donna Cooper; Ed Jamison; Ed 
Varosky; George Cooper; Gina Marlow; gmza...@yahoo.com; Jane Parker; Jane 
Parsley; Joel Mann; John Beury; Kay Terry; Ken Winters; Linda K. McNabb; Liz 
Folds; Mark Marlow; Rick Bolin; Ron Walker; Sharon Tkars; Stan Ammons; Virginia 
Carpenter
Cc: madelyn...@entouch.net
Subject: FW: Internet Virus Alert - from Texas Sen. Dan Patrick




Subject: Internet Virus Alert - from Texas Sen. Dan Patrick

Guess we had better heed this one and be careful.


From: Dan Patrick [mailto:danpatrick...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 7:23 PM
Subject: Internet Virus Alert

To my friends.  I jsut got this e-mail from our internet tech person.  If you 
have a PC you need to be on extra alert for this.
PLEASE READ!!!


http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/mailserver.asp
 Subject: Please read and advise as many as possible

Anyone-using Internet mail such as Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL and so on.

This information arrived this morning, Direct from both Microsoft and
Norton.
Please send it to everybody you know who has access t o the Internet.

You may receive an apparently harmless e-mail titled 'Mail Server Report'

If you open either file, a message will appear on your screen saying:
'It is too late now, your life is no longer beautiful.'

< B>Subsequently you will LOSE EVERYTHING IN YOUR PC, And the person who
sent it to you will gain access to your name, e-mail and password.

This is a new virus which started to circulate on Saturday afternoon.
AOL has already confirmed the severity, and the anti virus software's
are not capable of destroying it.

The virus has been created by a hacker who calls himself 'life owner'.

PLEASE SEND A COPY OF THIS E-MAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS, and ask them to
PASS IT ON IMMEDIATELY!

THIS HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BY SNOPES




http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/mailserver.asp 




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