Re: 10.2.8 and SWEN trojan
On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at 11:19 AM, Mark Secker wrote: Apple (and consequently I guess WAMUG) have pulled it due to a plethora of faults. I've got 4 dead eMacs that if they have nothing to do with having OS 10.2.8 being installed on them yesterday then it's an amassing coincidence) It's no coincidence, but the situation may not be hopeless. Check out today's MacFixit. -- Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer ServicesFileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.
Re: 10.2.8 and SWEN trojan
I've got 4 dead eMacs that if they have nothing to do with having OS 10.2.8 being installed on them yesterday then it's an amassing coincidence) It's no coincidence, but the situation may not be hopeless. Check out today's MacFixit. actually it was coincidence this time but yeh it's good to know there's a workable solution short of a Retrospect image restore (at best) or format/reinstall. -- ~ Mark Secker [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph#9380 1855 (ECEL) ECEL Computer Support Officer, University of Western Australia. CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ present day present time
10.2.8 and SWEN trojan
What happened to 10.2.8, not on http://mirrors.wamug.org.au/apple/macosx/ as far as I can now see? BTW with the MS Spam, I was receving about 2,000 a day (yes, that translates into about 200MB or more of email per day). Thanks to some tips for SpamAssassin (http://infofiend.com/log/index.php/item/223), Highway1 are now killing these at the server, so I don't even have to receive messages headers and delete them. Apparently a major cause of being a recipient is having lots of postings archived in newsgroups - Bill, be careful with your new email address! Of course, one of the reasons that I Google well and have therefore received US contracts is exactly those same newsgroup postings - damned if you do and broke if you don't! Andy Dent BSc MACS AACM http://www.oofile.com.au/ OOFILE - Database, Reports, Graphs, GUI for c++ on Mac, Unix Windows PP2MFC - PowerPlant-MFC portability
Re: 10.2.8 and SWEN trojan
Apple (and consequently I guess WAMUG) have pulled it due to a plethora of faults. I've got 4 dead eMacs that if they have nothing to do with having OS 10.2.8 being installed on them yesterday then it's an amassing coincidence) What happened to 10.2.8, not on http://mirrors.wamug.org.au/apple/macosx/ as far as I can now see? BTW with the MS Spam, I was receving about 2,000 a day (yes, that translates into about 200MB or more of email per day). Thanks to some tips for SpamAssassin (http://infofiend.com/log/index.php/item/223), Highway1 are now killing these at the server, so I don't even have to receive messages headers and delete them. Apparently a major cause of being a recipient is having lots of postings archived in newsgroups - Bill, be careful with your new email address! Of course, one of the reasons that I Google well and have therefore received US contracts is exactly those same newsgroup postings - damned if you do and broke if you don't! Andy Dent BSc MACS AACM http://www.oofile.com.au/ OOFILE - Database, Reports, Graphs, GUI for c++ on Mac, Unix Windows PP2MFC - PowerPlant-MFC portability -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro -- ~ Mark Secker [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph#9380 1855 (ECEL) ECEL Computer Support Officer, University of Western Australia. CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ present day present time
Re: 10.2.8 and SWEN trojan
On 24/09/2003, at 11:19 AM, Mark Secker wrote: Apple (and consequently I guess WAMUG) have pulled it due to a plethora of faults. Bingo. I've got 4 dead eMacs that if they have nothing to do with having OS 10.2.8 being installed on them yesterday then it's an amassing coincidence) Ouch. What happened to 10.2.8, not on http://mirrors.wamug.org.au/apple/macosx/ as far as I can now see? See above. - Matt -- 0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0 Matt Healey[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 10.2.8 and SWEN trojan
Apple (and consequently I guess WAMUG) have pulled it due to a plethora of faults. I've got 4 dead eMacs that if they have nothing to do with having OS 10.2.8 being installed on them yesterday then it's an amassing coincidence) all false alarms so far ... gr not amazing coincidence - except that how so many dumb things can happen at the same time.. actually my spelling mistake of amassing coincidence was quite apt. a user who rates them self as a bit of a techo decided to back up the computers using an external firewire drive. on some they renamed the ~\documents\Eudora folder to ~\documents\users name's Eudora folder so that they could back them up with out them having the same name on the external drive - unfortunately said person didn't quit out of Eudora to do this and next time user tried to access an item in a mailbox Eudora throw up a blank Modal style window that stopped all input or action in Eudora they didn't think to try clicking on background applications... what they told me was rebooting and comes up with same thing was really putting system to sleep when it woke up was same thing if that wasn't enough the said techo had removed the firewire drive from the other computers while the computer was asleep (again he'd put computer to sleep not shut it down)... as many of us have found out OS X doesn't like firewire drives to be removed when the systems asleep and it's usual response is it won't wake up and requires a hard reboot. -- ~ Mark Secker [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph#9380 1855 (ECEL) ECEL Computer Support Officer, University of Western Australia. CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ present day present time
RE: 10.2.8 and SWEN trojan
Talk about false alarms. Installed 10.2.8 yesterday arvo. Go home, logon to BigPond. Email won't work. Nothing on BigPond service status page about problem. Called two mates with BigPond accounts (Bunbury and Brisbane) and asked if their email works. Email works fine ... no problems here they both said. Grr. What have I changed recently? LIGHT BULB GOES ON ABOVE HEAD Must be 10.2.8! Look at watch. 8pm. Think about reinstall of 10.2.6. Start getting depressed thinking about 2 or so hours it will take. Decide to get pizza and beer and think about reinstall a bit more ... postponing the inevitable (you know how it is). Consume pizza and beer. Try BigPond once more. Voila! Email works but is slow ... gets better after 15 minutes ... back to normal by 9.15pm. Check out service staus page again ... NOW there is a message that email problems have been experienced by some users. Technicians are investigating. THANK GOD FOR BEER AND PIZZA!!! ;-) R.K. -Original Message- From: Mark Secker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 24 September 2003 1:17 PM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: 10.2.8 and SWEN trojan [SNIP] all false alarms so far ... gr not amazing coincidence - except that how so many dumb things can happen at the same time.. actually my spelling mistake of amassing coincidence was quite apt. [SNIP]
