Re: Possibly yet another MS mail worm

2004-03-01 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Moreover, they can encrypt zip by password and write password inside the message. As a result, no one virus scan detect this virus. And they will find enough idiots, who opens zip, enter password and run virus. - Original Message - From: "Todd Vierling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Curtis M

RE: Dns help.

2004-03-01 Thread Ejay Hire
Thank you Jim and everyone else who responded. Of 84 replies, 82 resolved correctly. 1 of the failures was single-server failure during a reload, and I'm a possible reachability issues as the cause of the other. Thanks again to all who helped. -ejay

Need Comcast contact

2004-03-01 Thread Brian Bruns
Anyone happen to know of a contact for Comcast's mail server administrators? I need to discuss an issue with them about their mail servers mailbombing my systems from a joe job. Thanks. -- Brian Bruns The Summit Open Source Development Group Open Solutions For A Closed World / Anti-Spam Resource

RE: Dns help.

2004-03-01 Thread McBurnett, Jim
Ejay, I found a great link some time ago: www.dnsstuff.com http://www.dnsstuff.com/pages/expert.htm This one has an option to do a lookup to any public DNS server... Pick some of the random Internation DNS servers and try it out.. It helped me out awhile back when an old DNS hoster still had us in

RE: First Post! Annoying Debate at Work.

2004-03-01 Thread Henry Linneweh
You wanna know about USB read this and that doesn't take an MSCEhttp://www.usb.org/faq   Andy Dills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Christopher Aldridge wrote:> know", should really investigate this certification.>> >Some of the things you asked were extremely basic.>> What "things"

RE: First Post! Annoying Debate at Work.

2004-03-01 Thread Andy Dills
On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Christopher Aldridge wrote: > know", should really investigate this certification. > > >Some of the things you asked were extremely basic. > > What "things" were these? How about the question about whether or not a usb ethernet adapter was an ethernet converter? You're the o

Re: Possibly yet another MS mail worm

2004-03-01 Thread John Palmer
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Henry Linneweh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 12:59 Subject: Re: Possibly yet another MS mail worm On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 10:35:05 PST, Henry Linneweh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> >> Everyday th

Re: First Post! Annoying Debate at Work.

2004-03-01 Thread Henry Linneweh
Consumers are not interested in certificates, they want solutions that are packaged. Front end services when people sign up for accounts should include all the tools necessary for survive on any network you provider access to.   -Henry"Patrick W.Gilmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mar 1, 2004,

Re: Possibly yet another MS mail worm

2004-03-01 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 10:35:05 PST, Henry Linneweh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Everyday there is a new, news article on this and every day everyone > panics and eeryday some one says tell the government to make a law, it is time > to realize that no law is going to do anything for anyone soon. In t

Re: First Post! Annoying Debate at Work.

2004-03-01 Thread Patrick W . Gilmore
On Mar 1, 2004, at 12:59 PM, Christopher Aldridge wrote: Please do not take this the wrong way, but I thought it was useful input. Perhaps not to you, but maybe to those who think that getting their MCSA will teach them all they need to know. One who thinks these exam topics cover (as you say" "

Re: Possibly yet another MS mail worm

2004-03-01 Thread Henry Linneweh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-Hash: SHA1 Everyday there is a new, news article on this and every day everyonepanics and eeryday some one says tell the government to make a law, it is timeto realize that no law is going to do anything for anyone soon. In the past wejust took care of the problem

Dns help.

2004-03-01 Thread Ejay Hire
Hi all. nanog(signal,noise++) I have a customer that is reporting intermittent reachability issues to Stormpay.com, and need a off-network perspective on dns. The end-user reports not being able to resolve the domain, but it's been okay everywhere I looked. Most of the complaints have been int

Re: Possibly yet another MS mail worm

2004-03-01 Thread Randy Bush
>> In this case, it is the IDIOIT users. You tell them time and time again >> DONT CLICK ON ATTACHMENTS UNLESS SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS SENDING IT AND TELLS >> YOU IN ADVANCE THEY ARE SENDING IT. > If you do something again and again and again and it fails again and > again and again you ned to ask whe

Re: Possibly yet another MS mail worm

2004-03-01 Thread Leo Vegoda
You wrote: > In this case, it is the IDIOIT users. You tell them time and time again DONT > CLICK ON ATTACHMENTS > UNLESS SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS SENDING IT AND TELLS YOU IN ADVANCE THEY ARE > SENDING IT. If you do something again and again and again and it fails again and again and again you ned

RE: First Post! Annoying Debate at Work.

2004-03-01 Thread Christopher Aldridge
-Original Message- From: Patrick W.Gilmore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: First Post! Annoying Debate at Work. >Please do not take this the wrong way, but I thought it was useful >input. Perhaps not to you, but maybe to those who think that getting >their MCSA will teach the

Re: Possibly even yet another MS mail worm

2004-03-01 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Jeff Shultz wrote: Okay, from an operational standpoint, who really wants a customer who would open this as a customer in the first place? It seems like it takes some seriously stubborn stupidity to do so. I'm beginning to think that we should start charging like insurance companies do... the

RE: Possibly yet another MS mail worm

2004-03-01 Thread Vivien M.
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Curtis Maurand > Sent: March 1, 2004 10:38 AM > To: Todd Vierling > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Possibly yet another MS mail worm > > > My point is that the COM/DCOM/OLE/ActiveX is what allo

Re: Possibly even yet another MS mail worm

2004-03-01 Thread Jeff Shultz
** Reply to message from "Mike Nice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 1 Mar 2004 07:23:07 -0500 > I just received 2 copies of Bagle.F, embedded inside a password-protected > zip file. Comes right through a full virus scan undetected. > > --- > Sent: Sunday, Fe

Re: Possibly yet another MS mail worm

2004-03-01 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 11:14:37 CST, John Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > In this case, it is the IDIOIT users. You tell them time and time again DONT CLICK > ON ATTACHMENTS > UNLESS SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS SENDING IT AND TELLS YOU IN ADVANCE THEY ARE > SENDING IT. CM Kornbluth wrote "The Marching M

Re: Possibly yet another MS mail worm

2004-03-01 Thread David A. Ulevitch
> > In this case, it is the IDIOIT users. You tell them time and time again > DONT CLICK ON ATTACHMENTS > UNLESS SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS SENDING IT AND TELLS YOU IN ADVANCE THEY ARE > SENDING IT. Just telling people "Don't do that, it's bad." is sure to fail for the same reason you can't tell peopl

Re: Possibly yet another MS mail worm

2004-03-01 Thread John Palmer
In this case, it is the IDIOIT users. You tell them time and time again DONT CLICK ON ATTACHMENTS UNLESS SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS SENDING IT AND TELLS YOU IN ADVANCE THEY ARE SENDING IT. The problem is dumb users who DONT LISTEN. This is mostly the office crowd. The real imbeciles are people operati

Re: Possibly yet another MS mail worm

2004-03-01 Thread Sam Stickland
Curtis Maurand wrote: > On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Todd Vierling wrote: > >> On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Curtis Maurand wrote: >> >>> Sure they doits called COM/DCOM/OLE/ActiveX or whatever they >>> want to call it this week. Its on every windows system. >> >> No, my point was that the majority of newer tro

Re: First Post! Annoying Debate at Work.

2004-03-01 Thread Patrick W . Gilmore
On Mar 1, 2004, at 9:02 AM, Christopher Aldridge wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 6:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: First Post! Annoying Debate at Work. Thanks for your EXCELLENT example of how technical certification programs are no gu

Re: Possibly yet another MS mail worm

2004-03-01 Thread Curtis Maurand
On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Todd Vierling wrote: > On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Curtis Maurand wrote: > > : Sure they doits called COM/DCOM/OLE/ActiveX or whatever they > : want to call it this week. Its on every windows system. > > No, my point was that the majority of newer trojan mail viruses don't depe

Re: Possibly yet another MS mail worm

2004-03-01 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Todd Vierling wrote: It's as if the modern e-mail viruses are closer to human infections. Only the clueful are immune. 8-) I would agree if you had written "... At most the clueful are immune. %^)

Re: Possibly yet another MS mail worm

2004-03-01 Thread Todd Vierling
On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Curtis Maurand wrote: : > It's annoying how easily these things spread even though they don't rely on : > a specific OS vulnerabililty -- hell, it's an executable *in a zipfile*, so : > it requires opening the zipfile and then running the program inside it. Of : > course ever

Re: Possibly yet another MS mail worm

2004-03-01 Thread Curtis Maurand
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Todd Vierling wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Stephen Milton wrote: > Yah, "Bagle.C" is the notation used by F-Secure. This is indeed what it > was. > > It's annoying how easily these things spread even though they don't rely on > a specific OS vulnerabililty -- hell, it's

RE: First Post! Annoying Debate at Work.

2004-03-01 Thread Christopher Aldridge
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 6:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: First Post! Annoying Debate at Work. >Thanks for your EXCELLENT example of how technical certification >programs are no guarantee of fundamental technical understanding. >P.

Re: Possibly even yet another MS mail worm

2004-03-01 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
Yup, got this one too .. according to nai.com theres a whole bunch of these variants up to bagle.g .. there is also a netsky.d out today as well pity nai.com arent updating their dat files as fast as their website :( Steve On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Mike Nice wrote: > I just received 2 copies of Bagl

Possibly even yet another MS mail worm

2004-03-01 Thread Mike Nice
I just received 2 copies of Bagle.F, embedded inside a password-protected zip file. Comes right through a full virus scan undetected. --- Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 7:04 PM Subject: Bad girl I am from Taiwan but I study in Camden, New Jersey now. I

Re: First Post! Annoying Debate at Work.

2004-03-01 Thread Michael . Dillon
>Network Analyst >CCNA/MCP/MCSA Thanks for your EXCELLENT example of how technical certification programs are no guarantee of fundamental technical understanding. P.S. If you don't ask the right questions you will never get the right answers.

RE: Possibly yet another MS mail worm

2004-03-01 Thread Steve Birnbaum
> Say such a milter could strip off attachments, replacing them > with a URL in the email that will allow the recipient to > download them if they prove clean. It's not an instant > gratification, but it'll let you distribute the scanning About 5-6 yrs ago I wrote a system for a customer tha