Re: Fw: VIRUS IN A MAIL FOR YOU FROM oscardiz@coqui.net

2001-09-04 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Tue, 04 Sep 2001 21:06:19 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: > A total of ten (10) mssgs like this so far. It is apparent that when > the list message didn't do the job, sr. diza decided to access the list > member e-mail addresses and send his viruses that way. > This proves two things: > * He's a s

Re: AND MORE BADTRANS from OSCAR DIAZ

2001-09-04 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Tue, 04 Sep 2001 20:11:20 -0400, Clarence Verge wrote: > On Wed, 05 Sep 2001 00:35:38 +0200, Flip ter Biecht wrote: >> Again two infected messages from Oscar Diaz. > Hey, I'm more than a little disturbed by the fact that MY NAME > was associated with BOTH of those worm distributions. > Ther

Re: virus

2001-09-04 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Tue, 04 Sep 2001 21:54:13 +0300, Cristian Burneci wrote: > "Helmut Usbeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> try to figure out what this one is. > After extracting the attachement from the digest and decoding it, naming it > "virus_decodat", (too much work for a virused file :-)) this is what I'

OSCAR DIAZ USES OUTLOOK EXPRESS !! (But we all knew that

2001-09-04 Thread Clarence Verge
L.D. Best wrote: (in off-list mail) > > Easy boy, down ... easy .. > > Take a big breath, and make up a mailing list of 1 e-mail address. And > make that e-mail address [EMAIL PROTECTED] [or the correct e-dress if > I'm misrembering]. Then each time you receive a message from him, or > from the

Re: Fw: VIRUS IN A MAIL FOR YOU FROM oscardiz@coqui.net

2001-09-04 Thread Steve
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, L.D. Best wrote: > This proves two things: > > * He's a stupid anglo-saxon-for-plow-ing idiot, > > * If his brains were made of latex there wouldn't be enough to make a >condum for a mosquito. Actually, I think it only proves he was stupid enough to "open" the virus

Fw: VIRUS IN A MAIL FOR YOU FROM oscardiz@coqui.net

2001-09-04 Thread L.D. Best
A total of ten (10) mssgs like this so far. It is apparent that when the list message didn't do the job, sr. diza decided to access the list member e-mail addresses and send his viruses that way. This proves two things: * He's a stupid anglo-saxon-for-plow-ing idiot, * If his brains were mad

Re: Baslinux customization

2001-09-04 Thread ichi
Steve wrote: > > Use a lean window manager instead. I agree 100% > For absolute tiniest window manager, I > think tvm wins the prize, twm has the reputation for being the smallest, but I ran it side-by-side against icewm, and icewm used fewer resources. > but then it's not extremely functio

Re: Baslinux customization

2001-09-04 Thread ichi
Dale Mentzer wrote: > > What would be wrong with 2 different releases, one > for < 16 megs and another for > 16 megs, other than > the obvious time involved in supporting 2 releases? If it were just a matter of giving people a larger ramdisk to play with, there would be no problem. But my mo

Re: AND MORE BADTRANS from OSCAR DIAZ

2001-09-04 Thread Clarence Verge
On Wed, 05 Sep 2001 00:35:38 +0200, Flip ter Biecht wrote: > Again two infected messages from Oscar Diaz. Hey, I'm more than a little disturbed by the fact that MY NAME was associated with BOTH of those worm distributions. There could theoretically be some intentional association - (not by YOU

Re: virus

2001-09-04 Thread Cristian Burneci
"Helmut Usbeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >try to figure out what this one is. After extracting the attachement from the digest and decoding it, naming it "virus_decodat", (too much work for a virused file :-)) this is what I've got: [cburneci@rally inbox]$ f-prot virus_decodat Virus scannin

AND MORE BADTRANS from OSCAR DIAZ

2001-09-04 Thread Flip ter Biecht
Again two infected messages from Oscar Diaz. OSCAR, DO YOU READ? Sorry to state your name in the subject, but your computer is doing things you need to know about. If nessecary I could provide mcafees latest for download; let me know. I sent a description of the BADTRANS worm along a previous me

Re: 1.70R3: Endless loop of "verifying images"

2001-09-04 Thread Neil Parks
Your computer may be spreading a virus. No way in hell will I open any unsolicited attachment! On 4 Sep 2001, at 16:34, Oscar Diaz wrote: > 'Neil Parks' wrote: > > - Start Arachne 1.70R3 with "http://www.lpga.com"; on the command line. > - - Arachne will display some of the page. Then th

MORE BADTRANS!

2001-09-04 Thread Flip ter Biecht
Hello, I just received two more copies from the badtrans worm, not through owner-arachne but in reply to arachne list messages. This can be explained by the worms habit to answer UNOPENED mail in inboxes. See mcafee description below. Arachne recipient Oscar Diaz appears to be infected. Just one

Re: Baslinux customization

2001-09-04 Thread Dale Mentzer
On 3 Sep 01 at 2:26, Steven wrote: >>> I understand the size limitations of BASLINUX. Is there >>> a way of increasing the ram0 initial size, >> >>The size and number of potential ramdisks is fixed when >>a Kernel is compiled. I have considered recompiling >>the BasicLinux kernel to use an 8

Re: Fw: VIRUS IN A MAIL FOR YOU FROM owner-arachne@arachne.cz

2001-09-04 Thread Sam Ewalt
On Tue, 04 Sep 2001 14:16:23 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: > No. That would interfer big time with SMTP functions. Remember > that SMTP servers don't just receive and move mail from the ISP members. What else do they do? I thought that was it. Sam Ewalt Croswell, Michigan, USA -- Arachne V1.

Re: Fw: VIRUS IN A MAIL FOR YOU FROM owner-arachne@arachne.cz

2001-09-04 Thread L.D. Best
On Tue, 04 Sep 2001 10:18:20 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > Is the virus checker also supposed to prevent subscribers from > *sending* viruses? No. That would interfer big time with SMTP functions. Remember that SMTP servers don't just receive and move mail from the ISP members. > Anot

Re: Fw: VIRUS IN A MAIL FOR YOU FROM owner-arachne@arachne.cz

2001-09-04 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Mon, 03 Sep 2001 01:22:08 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: > - Forwarded message begin - > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > V I R U S A L E R T > Our viruschecker found a VIRUS in a mail from > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > to you. > Delivery of the email was stopped! > Please contact your

Re: Baslinux customization

2001-09-04 Thread Steve
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Thomas Mueller wrote: > I remember there was a tiny Linux that had a tiny sendmail, don't remember the > name of that distribution. Monkey? http://www.spsselib.hiedu.cz/monkey/docs/english.htm He says it's not a toy, and it isn't, however it does run on the UMSDOS filesys

Re: CAB archive

2001-09-04 Thread Flip ter Biecht
At 14:13 4-9-01 +, you wrote: >On Mon, 03 Sep 2001 15:09:23 +0200, Flip ter Biecht wrote: > > >> Hello there, > >> If you have win95 installed, you can safely run the soundblaster setup >> again, and I guess there must be some option there to install dos support, >> because otherwise the prese

Re: CAB archive

2001-09-04 Thread Bastiaan Edelman
On Mon, 03 Sep 2001 15:09:23 +0200, Flip ter Biecht wrote: > Hello there, > If you have win95 installed, you can safely run the soundblaster setup > again, and I guess there must be some option there to install dos support, > because otherwise the presence of those drivers seems rather pointles

Re: virus

2001-09-04 Thread Bastiaan Edelman
On Mon, 3 Sep 2001 01:12:09 -0400, Helmut Usbeck wrote: > try to figure out what this one is. > [Attached file: J6M9D802.HTM] > [Attached file: Humor_TX.pif] Humor_TX.pif is starting with MZ so it is an executable file. I changed .pif into .exe and ran it in DOS... "This program can not be run

Re: Baslinux customization

2001-09-04 Thread ichi
Thomas Mueller wrote: > > Can BasicLinux use larger ramdisks for a computer > with sufficient RAM Ramdisk size is a kernel parameter that is set when the kernel is compiled. As far as I know, the only way to change it is by recompiling. I have been considering going to an 8meg ramdisk, but

Re: Baslinux customization

2001-09-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
Can BasicLinux use larger ramdisks for a computer with sufficient RAM as might be the case with a new Windows ME, 2000 or XP computer where the user might want to see what Linux looks like? And what would be an optimum ramdisk size with 20 MB RAM such as I have now? from Steven (NZ): >Type e3 w

Re: virus

2001-09-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
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