Re: [newbie] Fwd: [spam] Symantec Mail Security detected that yousent a message containing a suspicious attachment.

2004-02-28 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
On Friday 27 February 2004 01:39 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Friday 27 February 2004 12:02 pm, Allen/gore/ SlackWareWolf wrote: Actually, it is entirely possible for you to be infected running Linux. The virii won't harm your machine much itself, but the virii CAN send itself out when you

Re: [newbie] Fwd: [spam] Symantec Mail Security detected that yousent a message containing a suspicious attachment.

2004-02-28 Thread Erylon Hines
On Saturday 28 February 2004 08:34 am, Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: On Friday 27 February 2004 01:39 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Friday 27 February 2004 12:02 pm, Allen/gore/ And of course myDoom wouldn't infect Linux, it was an anti-Sco virii ;) Actually, this was not the purpose of

Re: [newbie] Fwd: [spam] Symantec Mail Security detected that yousent a message containing a suspicious attachment.

2004-02-28 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Saturday 28 February 2004 11:34 am, Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: This was BEFORE mydoom so call the dogs of justice off me. It said their were a few virii that even though they could not infect the machine, they could be sent to people who did not run Linux or UNIX. Like they would sort

Re: [newbie] Fwd: [spam] Symantec Mail Security detected that yousent a message containing a suspicious attachment.

2004-02-28 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 28 February 2004 18:44, Bryan Phinney wrote: Well, I have yet never heard of any virus that can manage to initiate actions to replicate themselves without being made to execute on the target machine. That would include any concepts of

Re: [newbie] Fwd: [spam] Symantec Mail Security detected that yousent a message containing a suspicious attachment.

2004-02-28 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Saturday 28 February 2004 01:53 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I wonder if he is referring to sobig, which, I understand, left a stub in the windows registry so that it could 'come back' after being disinfected? If so, it obviously has no place to hide in linux. Even if, the only way for sobig to

Re: [newbie] Fwd: [spam] Symantec Mail Security detected that yousent a message containing a suspicious attachment.

2004-02-28 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 28 February 2004 20:23, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Saturday 28 February 2004 01:53 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I wonder if he is referring to sobig, which, I understand, left a stub in the windows registry so that it could 'come back' after

Re: [newbie] Fwd: [spam] Symantec Mail Security detected that yousent a message containing a suspicious attachment.

2004-02-27 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 08:11:54 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Fwd: [spam] Symantec Mail Security detected that yousent a message containing a suspicious attachment. Anders Lind wrote: On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 15:24:58

Re: [newbie] Fwd: [spam] Symantec Mail Security detected that yousent a message containing a suspicious attachment.

2004-02-27 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
On Friday 27 February 2004 07:29 am, Angus Auld wrote: - Original Message - From: Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 08:11:54 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Fwd: [spam] Symantec Mail Security detected that yousent a message containing a suspicious

Re: [newbie] Fwd: [spam] Symantec Mail Security detected that yousent a message containing a suspicious attachment.

2004-02-27 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 27 February 2004 12:02 pm, Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: Actually, it is entirely possible for you to be infected running Linux. The virii won't harm your machine much itself, but the virii CAN send itself out when you send email. Which viruses are you referring to? If any of

Re: [newbie] Fwd: [spam] Symantec Mail Security detected that yousent a message containing a suspicious attachment.

2004-02-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 27 February 2004 12:39 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Friday 27 February 2004 12:02 pm, Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: Actually, it is entirely possible for you to be infected running Linux. The virii won't harm your machine much itself, but the virii CAN send itself out when you

Re: [newbie] Fwd: [spam] Symantec Mail Security detected that yousent a message containing a suspicious attachment.

2004-02-27 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 27 February 2004 02:36 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: www.mmgc (or whatever it was) I checked Netcraft, an the server was runnin 'advanced Apache on Mandrake Linux'. But hey, Symantec crap is windoze AV crud, no? Well, netcraft tells you what web server they are running, that