Michael and ALL:
I agree 100 percent.
IF you can NOT fix the problem Plse *Unscribe* Me.
If I am suscribed, I'll sure miss all of you.
I don't post much but have enjoyed the list it has been great,
I have learned much for all those posting.
Bob
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 05:06:16 -0700 (PDT
: Thank you!
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 11:08:22 +0200
X-MailScanner: Found to be clean
Importance: Normal
The virus spoofs the "From:" and "Reply to:" fields, so these can't be
taken into account. the "X-Mailscanner: " field is bogus and it is added
by the virus
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 19:18:46 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
> Where did you find your flying pigs ?
> I've been looking for one. ;-)
They go past here every time someone succeeds at one of these
hare-brained schemes like convincing the rest of the world to give up
Windoze
Next time I see them I'
Details of the worm recently sent to the Arachne List
are here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/32136.html
The article ends:
"Apple and GNU/Linux users need have no fear. As is so
often the case, they're immune from the latest Windows
nasty."
A call to arms? ;-)
Cheers,
Jake
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 9:44:48 +, J J Young wrote:
> Details of the worm recently sent to the Arachne List
> are here:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/32136.html
> The article ends:
> "Apple and GNU/Linux users need have no fear. As is so
> often the case, they're immune from the lates
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 08:39:34 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote:
>> A call to arms? ;-)
> Of course! But they do acknowledge that it is a "Windows nasty." perhaps
> people will start to realize that Windoze is not such a lovely OS.
> Yeah, and I have to put my pigs back in the aviary...
Hahahahaha
W
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 9:44:48 +, J J Young wrote:
> Details of the worm recently sent to the Arachne List
> are here:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/32136.html
> The article ends:
> "Apple and GNU/Linux users need have no fear. As is so
> often the case, they're immune from the latest
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 18:53:39 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 9:44:48 +, J J Young wrote:
>> Details of the worm recently sent to the Arachne List
>> are here:
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/32136.html
>> The article ends:
>> "Apple and GNU/Linux users need have
Mistrust a "Re:" to a mail you never posted ;-0
This a new favorite to avoid spam and virus filters.
I have got several rejected mails, supposedly posted by me.
CU, Bastiaan
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 22:18:00 +0300, Cristian Burneci wrote:
> This is really nice. This virus really pu
This is really nice. This virus really put the windows dummies to work
in order to get themselves infected. Some of them may really have a
chance to learn what a zip archive is after all (don't laugh! I often
have the chance to run into such desperate cases).
Nice job Sobig.E! Spreading as
On Wed, 28 May 2003 03:26:44 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> How can they find out your email address just by your going
> to their advertised web site and the only thing you do there
> is to just take a looksee?
I don't think they can find out your email address if you just go to
their site. B
On Thu, 29 May 2003, Sam Ewalt wrote:
> I don't know how it happens either. But I was curious once and
> clicked and got a message saying "thanks for your interest" and
> almost immediately I started getting spam by the bushel. It is almost
> all in HTML only, is sent via Outlook Express and has a
On Wed, 28 May 2003, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> On Tue, 27 May 2003 17:24:09 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote:
>
> How can they find out your email address just by your going
> to their advertised web site and the only thing you do there
> is to just take a looksee?
I throw almost all of my spams away i
On Wed, 28 May 2003 03:26:44 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> On Tue, 27 May 2003 17:24:09 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote:
>> And if you should even once respond to a spam (sometimes just going
>> to a suggested website is all it takes) then you will get on a list
>> of "email responders". Lists of "ema
On Tue, 27 May 2003 17:24:09 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote:
> And if you should even once respond to a spam (sometimes just going
> to a suggested website is all it takes) then you will get on a list
> of "email responders". Lists of "email responders" are a hot item
> in the spam trade.
How can they fi
On Tue, 27 May 2003 17:24:09 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote:
> And if you should even once respond to a spam (sometimes just going
> to a suggested website is all it takes) then you will get on a list
> of "email responders". Lists of "email responders" are a hot item
> in the spam trade.
Yes, I knew abo
On Wed, 28 May 2003 08:55:09 +1000, Ron Clarke wrote:
> If you shell out from arachne and look at them with a text viewer, you
> will see a (UU)-encoded attachment, often called "big5". I have an idea
> that this is something that Outlook Distress will actually render, but I
> seem to remember t
On Tue, 27 May 2003 07:54:48 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote:
> Sure, I get stuff like this all the time.
Any idea what's causing it? Is it noise in the system or what?
from Greg Mayman, in Adelaide, South Australia
"Queen City of the South" 34:55S 138:36E
-- Arachne V1.71;UE01, NON-COMMERCIAL copy,
Hi Folks,
On Tue, 27 May 2003 16:37:51 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote:
> Is anyone else getting garbage mail like the following? I'm receiving up
> to three a day, none of them with any content to the message.
I have been getting a few of these. They actually have content, but
Arachne doesn't show
On Tue, 27 May 2003 08:25:32 -0500,
=?windows-1252?Q?Jos=E9=20Antonio=20Pineda=20Figueroa?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Gregg, yes, I am receiving it, too, and i suspect it's due to the lack of
> security of arachne's list for before subscribing i received anything of this
> kind at all.
Let
On Thu, 06 Jun 2002 20:41:11 -0700, "Destiny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For anti-virus solutions try these:
> http://www.pandasoftware.com
> http://www.norman.no
> http://www.dials.ru/english/home.htm
> http://www.europe.datafellows.com
> http://www.nai.c
For anti-virus solutions try these:
http://www.pandasoftware.com
http://www.norman.no
http://www.dials.ru/english/home.htm
http://www.europe.datafellows.com
http://www.nai.com
http://www.stiller.com
http://www.grisoft.com
-- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy
t; a partition table with FAT-32 partitions - one that stops/catches viruses
> before the OS is booted?
> Thanks in Advance,
> Howard
I am not familiar with Disksecure, have no such MBR virus protector. MBR itself
is only 512 bytes, or is it 2048? As far as I know, the difference between
FAT-
For many years I happily used Pagett Peterson's Disksecure II to protect
the Master Boot Record (MBR) of my disk from boot/stealth viruses. I am
now considering updating my partition table to FAT-32 to save space, and
eliminate the work of managing several different (logical) drive letters.
I su
On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Cristian Burneci wrote:
>
> L.D., Please don't panic, you're clearly not guilty!
>
> The virus originated from somewhere in Hong Kong (hknet.com domain)
>
Correction! The *message* we've just received originated from Hong Kong.
AF
L.D., Please don't panic, you're clearly not guilty!
The virus originated from somewhere in Hong Kong (hknet.com domain)
It is called "Nimda.A" and it is a worm. I think the owner of the
infected machine visited the list archive, and the virus collected a
bunch of e-mail
Folks,
L.D is NOT the source of that virus...I just got the following
alert from my ISP.
--ISP's message--
Received: by idscc12 (mbox gfeig)
(with Cubic Circle's cucipop (v1.31 1998/05/13) Fri Mar 15 22:13:39 2002)
X-From_: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Mar 15 19:
I don't have a virus, I don't transmit viruses. I don't even get
e-mail with viruses in it because of my ISP using Amavis software ...
all I receive is a notice that a message addressed to me had
such-and-such a virus and it was from so-and-so.
I use Arachne and ONLY Arachne fo
1. I don't have a virus, and I didn't send a virus ...
a. I don't use any Windows software for e-mail
b. Nothing gets embedded in, or attached to, my e-mail unless
I specifically work to do so.
c. Just to be certain, I downloaded the def fi
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 17:55:02 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Anybody else getting viruses from l.d. best?
> Cheers,
> Steven
Yeah, I got the same thing from her.
Sam Ewalt
Croswell, Michigan, USA
-- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 17:55:02 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Anybody else getting viruses from l.d. best?
> Cheers,
> Steven
I haven't received any emails or seen any posts from her in about
the last couple of months. She used to have something to say to
the list almost every day. I have be
Anybody else getting viruses from l.d. best?
Cheers,
Steven
--
From:
Subject: sampledesktopsampledesktopsampledesktopsample
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/related;
type="multipart/alternative";
bounda
Hi folks,
for DOS user, I can recommend F-Prot. DOS version is free and there are
updates every few weeks (last update of the data bases came out on 17.
December).
Regards Joerg
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 11:00:39 +, arachne4dos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> For those running winblows systems, "b
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 11:00:39 +, arachne4dos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> For those running winblows systems, "badtrans" can be taken care of
> with AVG from Grisoft.
> It is very effective and runs in/on DOS as well. This last two weeks
> it's picked up 17 examples of badtrans and deleted
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 09:40:07 +0100, Joerg Dietze wrote:
>Hi folks,
>
>some days ago a friend of mine received a Badtrans virus via e-mail.
>Fortunately his system (486/DX2, 4 MB) is running DOS and Arachne so
>no
>harm occured :-). I sent a message to the owner of the infected
&
Hi folks,
some days ago a friend of mine received a Badtrans virus via e-mail.
Fortunately his system (486/DX2, 4 MB) is running DOS and Arachne so no
harm occured :-). I sent a message to the owner of the infected system.
Regards Joerg
-- Arachne V1.70, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
mpt, it hung up my computer. When I C-A-D rebooted, my CMOS SETUP
came up, as if I had been into it, so it looks like the virus might be
trying to write to my CMOS...
...gregy
[--forwarded message-]
Received: by idscc12 (mbox gfeig)
(with Cubic Circle's c
> The first thing to do is to forward the message along
>with a complaint to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't know
>if, as the receiving ISP, prodigy would also send them
>a complaint, but it couldn't hurt to cc: it to
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> These guys state that it's a form of W32.Magistr.
>http://ww
of text, and a big
>> SUCATREG.EXE attachment.
> You received this file from a computer that is infected with a
> W32/Magistr variant.
I mentioned "sucatreg" abt 2 month ago to the list.
Did sent it to "Norman Virus Control" and they stated it was a virus
(worm) as I
mplaints at "abuse" while others prefer
port scans and other cracking activity go to "security."
Does sending a virus constitute abuse of a network,
or cracking? Depending on the virus, I suppose it
could fall under either or both.
"postmaster" is generally used fo
ldn't hurt to cc: it to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> These guys state that it's a form of W32.Magistr.
> http://www.melsernet.com/wwwboard/messages/6.html
It has been my understanding that the abuse reporting addresses
are to be used for reporting spam only. This isn't a spam
messa
On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Received: from pimout3-int.prodigy.net (pimout3-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.63.102])
> by w3.bluegrass.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA12522
> for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 01:22:20 -0400 (
probably
a friend of a friend of yours and he doesn't know that his computer
is doing it.
It is a Magistr virus variant. It infects Windows and Windows CE
systems. You can find lots of information about SUCATREG.EXE simply
by doing a google search for the filename.
According to inform
I received a message of 147000 bytes from somebody unknown to me, with a weird,
unintelligible subject line, a weird unintelligible line of text, and a big
SUCATREG.EXE attachment. As previously stated, my ISP changes .EXE in
attachment file names to ~EXE so a careless recipient won't run it acci
careless recipient
won't accidentally run the file and spread a virus, but if the attachment is
legit, the recipient can rename to end in .exe.
Message follows, with virus code snipped:
Return-Path: <>
Received: from default (cpe-203-21-239-13.why.austar.net.au [203.21.239.13])
bles when wrote "binaries" .
Lately, many well-known manufacturers of antivirus progarms turned their
attention towards email scanners and filtering programs for email servers.
Speaking of these, I was happy to find that there is now a Linux version of
F-prot virus scanner and I bet th
I got my first two viral messages from Oscar Diaz, and the message part, before
the attachment, was messy with quoted-printable junk.
I believe if somebody could safely send a virus-infested message to a
postmaster, sysadmin or abuse address by copying it inline to the body of the
main message
ne list mentioning
>> attacks from Oscar Diaz, who apparantly executed Helmut's sample?
> I have received then both, packed inside the arachne digest. One of them
> contained detailed information about the virus. Thanks to you, the number of
> the potential victims on th
d Helmut's sample?
>
I have received then both, packed inside the arachne digest. One of them
contained detailed information about the virus. Thanks to you, the number of
the potential victims on this list, surely decreased in size :-)
The same maildrop contained also a message, appar
On Wed, 05 Sep 2001 15:59:20 -0400, L.D. Best wrote:
> Sam,
> If you recall, it is impossible for me to send his "virus infested crap"
> back to him. Remember? All viruses are sent to the bitbucket by my
> ISP's software? Therefore, most people would know that -- s
On 5 Sep 01 at 0:40, Samuel Heywood wrote:
>>Is the virus checker also supposed to prevent subscribers from
>>*sending* viruses?
Good question.
>>Another question: Does the virus checker cause long delays
>>between the time an email message addressed to you is receiv
ngs:
> * 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.
> Now, how do we get rid of him? Start forwarding this virus infested
> crap back to him? Every hour on the hour??
Sam,
If you recall, it is impossible for me to send his "virus infested crap"
back to him. Remember? All viruses are sent to the bitbucket by my
ISP's software? Therefore, most people would know that -- since the
question is moot on my part -- the mere asking is simply a publ
forwarded message begins
From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization: Arachne Fan Club
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 12:29:36 -0500
X-Mailer: Arachne V1.70;rev.3
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subje
to infect us
> Welllotsa luck, is all I can say...but, we need to be aware that
> people are doing this..
No, this is not what is happening. Oscar Diaz's machine is infected
with the Badtrans virus. The virus is clipping out some lines from
Oscar's unread mail folders and the
et al,
I received the following message, which purports to be replied to by
someone subscribed to the Arachne List. The attachment "README.T"
is a windows virus, with several masquerading names inside it. I
have not forwarded the attachment, just the message.
The message purported
ngs:
> * 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.
> Now, how do we get rid of him? Start forwarding this virus infested
> crap back to him? Every hour on the hour??
n Burneci
Not all viruses and worms sent in emails arrive in the form of an
attachment. Go to a good anti-virus site and read about the KAK worm.
It is a crime to transmit a virus or a worm by email knowingly and
intentionally and deliberately. Unless we can produce evidence
indicating that
stupid enough
to "open" the virus originally sent by Helmut... that's
where the opening salvo originated for this list.
It also demonstrates how this virus checks UNREAD
emails and sends the virus to addresses it finds there.
Obviously Oscar has been online, but too busy to read
h
rains were made of latex there wouldn't be enough to make a
condum for a mosquito.
Now, how do we get rid of him? Start forwarding this virus infested
crap back to him? Every hour on the hour?? Attempt to write his ISP?
Find him and nuke him?
- Forwarded message begin -
From: [
"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
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.
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
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
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
lename="Humor.TXT~pif"
TVqQAAME//8AALgAQAAA
(snip)
My ISP changes . to ~ in certain executable attachments based on file name
extension, here .pif, so the careless user won't run the attachment and become
infected by the virus. So the name was really Humor.TXT.p
On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Helmut Usbeck wrote:
> try to figure out what this one is.
Why not just look it up at one of the sites dedicated
to that end?
This particular virus is described at
http://www.europe.f-secure.com/v-descs/badtrans.shtml
but you can find out about any virus
At 01:12 3-9-01 -0400, you wrote:
> try to figure out what this one is. Attachment Converted:
>"C:\FLOP\Humor.TXT.pif"
That's a live specimen of W32/badtrans@MM, according to mcafee.
Don't try again, please.
Bart
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 em
- 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 system administrator for details
--
try to figure out what this one
is.
Humor.TXT.pif
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 02:15:19 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Mueller wrote:
> When I receive a questionable attachment and recognize who it came from, I
> normally query the sender. If I recognize the attachment as a virus, I let the
> sender know. But then I usually don't have any co
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> When I receive a questionable attachment and recognize who it came from, I
> normally query the sender. If I recognize the attachment as a virus, I let the
> sender know. But then I usually don't have any contact with the sen
When I receive a questionable attachment and recognize who it came from, I
normally query the sender. If I recognize the attachment as a virus, I let the
sender know. But then I usually don't have any contact with the sender's
father.
Currently I have only DR-DOS 7.03 installed and r
Hello:
I recently spoke to a person who maintains a mailing list of a
social organization I belong to. I am on his mailing list. I
asked him if he were related to a person whose surname is the
same as his and the same as the reputed sender of a Magistr virus
I recently received. He said that
windows), files (eg.,
outlook), the registry, etc., and then do their damage.
I *think* that I saved one, but I am not sure.
Roger Turk
Tucson, Arizona USA
Bastiaan Edelman wrote:
> In any case I have thus far not heard of a virus in a file that
> can do damage just be being downloade
> In any case I have thus far not heard of a virus in a file that
> can do damage just be being downloaded to your PC, before it is
> executed or opened for reading. As there such viruses?
To my knowledge there are no such virrii... but if the execution or
opening is automatic harm ca
> > How can an anti-virus program scan a file for viruses *before*
> > the file is downloaded? I have never heard of any virus scanning
> > software having such a feature.
L.D. Best replied:
> I have ... but it is run by the ISP at the POP3 server level.
> X-AntiVi
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 1:13:46 +0800, J. J. Young wrote:
> Try: http://www.98lite.net/products.html
> ... and take some comfort(?) in http://laboratorium.net/iss.html
Thanks, Jake.
Two thumbs up.
- Clarence Verge
- Back to using Arachne V1.62
Hi
10 Jul 2001, "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
GM> Oh, I forgot.
GM> "deltree" is not included with win9x and above.
at least in the german version of win95 and Win98 SE it is.
-
Directory of C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\deltree.*
DELTREE.EXE 19147 5.05.99 22:22
-
GM>
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 14:20:25 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> Question: Why do so many people use OE?
For the simple reason that most WinAddicts are too STUPID to be able to
figure-out how to change the default settings that came already setup on
the machine when they bought it.
Which also e
Jake wrote:
. > Blackbeard is praised at http://www.inti.be/hammer/revobild.htm
I have Blackbeard, and although it is my primary text editor, I would not be
enthusiastic about recommending it as a good text editor. The reason that I
am still using it is inertia --- I am familiar with it.
I g
Sam wrote:
>Question: Why do so many people use OE? I have OE on my
>Windows machine but I never use it. I would like to uninstall it but I
>don't know how. A problem with uninstalling bad Windows programs
>is that doing so will often screw up vital and necessary programs
>that are somehow int
Hi
10 Jul 2001, "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
SH> Do you mean to say that a message containing HTML will be
SH> automagically displayed in your browser if you open the message with
SH> Outlook?
Outlook uses the IE browser engine to display the message in the outlook
(express)
Sam H. asked:
>Is that another reason why MicroSoft Word is such a bad word processor?
>Will using MicroSoft to open a MicroSoft Word document default to run
>all included macros without asking? Which word processors do you know
>of are so defectively designed?
Word doesn't do that. What word do
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 19:42:12 +0200 (CEST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter)
wrote:
> It's the same with wordprocessors.
> You can't get a virus by opening a document.
> As long as the author of the wordprocessor is SO EXTREMELY STUPID, to
> default to run ALL I
ge part is only ascii text.
> have you heared of HTML ??
> SH> According to my understanding, you cannot run a virus simply by
> SH> reading an ascii text file,
> this is correct
> but your assumptions are not correct.
> If outlook gets a mail which contains text and html, gues
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 11:24:02 -0400 (EDT), Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>> According to my understanding,
>> you cannot run a virus simply by reading an ascii text file, but
>> there are those who will say that my u
Hi
10 Jul 2001, "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
SH> Another question: How can your anti-virus software determine if
SH> an email message contains a virus *before* the attachment has
SH> been decoded?
Don't focus only on the client side !!!
At leas
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> Another question: How can your anti-virus software determine if
> an email message contains a virus *before* the attachment has
> been decoded?
Because it's done at the POP server. The pop
server simply looks for attachment
On Sun, 08 Jul 2001 23:50:46 -0500, L.D. Best wrote:
> Sam,
> On Mon, 09 Jul 2001 22:57:54 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>> Howard:
>> How can an anti-virus program scan a file for viruses *before*
>> the file is downloaded? I have never heard of any virus scanning
Sam,
On Mon, 09 Jul 2001 22:57:54 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> Howard:
> How can an anti-virus program scan a file for viruses *before*
> the file is downloaded? I have never heard of any virus scanning
> software having such a feature.
I have ... but it is run by the ISP
, as you may be on more than one
> of my lists.
> Best wishes for abundant Success!
> Jan Slama
> (509) 922-3412
> ^^^^^^
> VIRUS WARNING:
> If you receive an email titled:
> "It Takes Guts to Say Jesus"
Please, please, PLEASE..
hoax and virus sites. I generally
use http://www.datafellows.com/virus-info/hoax/
(by F-prot)
- Steve
sts.
Best wishes for abundant Success!
Jan Slama
(509) 922-3412
^^
VIRUS WARNING:
If you receive an email titled:
"It Takes Guts to Say Jesus"
DO NOT OPEN IT. It will erase everything on your hard drive. This
information was announced yesterday mor
, as you may be on more than one
> of my lists.
Perhaps you mean well, but this sort of "chain letter" warning is
almost always a hoax. Please refrain from sending out this sort of
broadcast virus warning. It doesn't help and often causes unecessary
panic.
If you use any form of
It's true that it takes guts to say Jesus :) but that "virus alert" is
nothing but a hoax. It's old, too. It's at least a couple of years since
I've heard of it for the first time.
m IBM;
Note the absense of a link to this information from IBM.
> AOL states that
> this is a very dangerous virus, much worse than "Melissa," and that
> there is NO Remedy for it at this time.
There are no virus that can't be stopped.
> Some very sick individual
Success!
Jan Slama
(509) 922-3412
^^
VIRUS WARNING:
If you receive an email titled:
"It Takes Guts to Say Jesus"
DO NOT OPEN IT. It will erase everything on your hard drive. This
information was announced yesterday morning from IBM; AOL states that
ctually
a virus that is used to ruin and/or control all our lives.
It slowly sucks the life force out of you putting it into
your computer so that the virus can survive. It spawns itself
continuously by creating blue screens, causing you to go out
and buy the newest version of itself. This viru
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