Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-08 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Saturday 07 June 2003 17:30, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Saturday 07 June 2003 02:39 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: On Friday 06 June 2003 17:03, Anne Wilson wrote: Ooops - is he saying that he has been reading for two years? Did he get the virus and think it came from us? Anne

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-08 Thread eric huff
DJ Yes Linux can have spaces, but when you are typing a file name DJ containing spaces in the command line you must wrap the entire DJ file name in quotes Thanks - learn something every day here. :-) Personally, i think linux handles spaces better than that other OS that forced them on us

Re[8]: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-08 Thread rikona
Hello Derek, Sunday, June 8, 2003, 11:55:31 AM, you wrote: DJ Yes this is the key. Regardless of the extension name a file only DJ becomes executable when it is made so. Excellent! DJ No. 'Open' simply means it will look at the mime type and start DJ the application at the top of the list in

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-07 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Friday 06 June 2003 17:03, Anne Wilson wrote: Ooops - is he saying that he has been reading for two years? Did he get the virus and think it came from us? Anne Probably, he thinks Linux has no documentation... so it mst be true! and besides, who knows how many viruses does Lunix have?!

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 07 Jun 2003 7:39 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: On Friday 06 June 2003 17:03, Anne Wilson wrote: Ooops - is he saying that he has been reading for two years? Did he get the virus and think it came from us? Anne Probably, he thinks Linux has no documentation... so it mst be

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 04:39, Damian Gatabria wrote: On Friday 06 June 2003 17:03, Anne Wilson wrote: Ooops - is he saying that he has been reading for two years? Did he get the virus and think it came from us? Anne Probably, he thinks Linux has no documentation... so it mst be true!

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-07 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Saturday 07 June 2003 02:39 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: On Friday 06 June 2003 17:03, Anne Wilson wrote: Ooops - is he saying that he has been reading for two years? Did he get the virus and think it came from us? Anne Probably, he thinks Linux has no documentation... so it mst be

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-07 Thread Aron Smith
On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 13:23, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 04:39, Damian Gatabria wrote: On Friday 06 June 2003 17:03, Anne Wilson wrote: Ooops - is he saying that he has been reading for two years? Did he get the virus and think it came from us? Anne Probably, he

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 07 Jun 2003 10:03 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 13:23, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 04:39, Damian Gatabria wrote: On Friday 06 June 2003 17:03, Anne Wilson wrote: Ooops - is he saying that he has been reading for two years? Did he get the virus

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-07 Thread Steven Broos
On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 20:39, Damian Gatabria wrote: On Friday 06 June 2003 17:03, Anne Wilson wrote: Ooops - is he saying that he has been reading for two years? Did he get the virus and think it came from us? Anne Probably, he thinks Linux has no documentation... so it mst be true!

[newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-06 Thread Chris
Has anyone else gotten an email today with the subject: Re: [newbie] OT - PCLO offline because of SCO! It has an attachment titled Address-denon021122.WAB.scr which is 70.5k, the entire message is 96.8k. Looks like one of the rapidly spreading new virus's. Second suspicious mail I've gotten

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-06 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 07:53:06PM -0500, Chris wrote: Has anyone else gotten an email today with the subject: Re: [newbie] OT - PCLO offline because of SCO! It has an attachment titled Address-denon021122.WAB.scr which is 70.5k, the entire message is 96.8k. Looks like one of the rapidly

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-06 Thread Chris
On Thursday 05 June 2003 08:33 pm, Todd Slater said,: On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 07:53:06PM -0500, Chris wrote: Has anyone else gotten an email today with the subject: Re: [newbie] OT - PCLO offline because of SCO! Yup, just got one. Roadrunner actually caught it before it got to me. Todd

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-06 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I got one of these this morning. It's sad to see my Web site's name used in such a destructive manner. I guess it gives a new, more literal meaning to the term 'viral marketing' :( On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 19:53:06 -0500, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone else gotten an email today with the

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-06 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 05 June 2003 07:53 pm, Chris wrote: Has anyone else gotten an email today with the subject: Re: [newbie] OT - PCLO offline because of SCO! It has an attachment titled Address-denon021122.WAB.scr which is 70.5k, the entire message is 96.8k. Looks like one of the rapidly spreading

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-06 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 10:53, Chris wrote: Has anyone else gotten an email today with the subject: Re: [newbie] OT - PCLO offline because of SCO! It's either Bugbear.B or Sobig.H doing it - so someone's been not only using an M$ mail package, but they're infected as well...(and they won't know

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-06 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 05 June 2003 10:01 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 10:53, Chris wrote: Has anyone else gotten an email today with the subject: Re: [newbie] OT - PCLO offline because of SCO! It's either Bugbear.B or Sobig.H doing it - so someone's been not only I got one of each

Re[4]: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-06 Thread rikona
Hello JoeHill, Thursday, June 5, 2003, 9:41:02 PM, you wrote: Wouldn't it be relatively easy to write a script virus as an attachment and do the kinds of things that happen in Win? J no for two reasons. one you'd have to execute it yourself, so it's not a J true virus or trojan unless it can

Re: Re[4]: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-06 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 06 Jun 2003 7:40 am, rikona wrote: Hello JoeHill, Thursday, June 5, 2003, 9:41:02 PM, you wrote: Wouldn't it be relatively easy to write a script virus as an attachment and do the kinds of things that happen in Win? J no for two reasons. one you'd have to execute it yourself, so

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 06 Jun 2003 2:55 am, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 05 June 2003 07:53 pm, Chris wrote: Has anyone else gotten an email today with the subject: Re: [newbie] OT - PCLO offline because of SCO! It has an attachment titled Address-denon021122.WAB.scr which is 70.5k, the entire

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 06 Jun 2003 3:01 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 10:53, Chris wrote: Has anyone else gotten an email today with the subject: Re: [newbie] OT - PCLO offline because of SCO! It's either Bugbear.B or Sobig.H doing it - so someone's been not only using an M$ mail

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-06 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 06 Jun 2003 3:01 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: but I've been shocked at the fact that over the past 2 weeks I must have had about 10 coming onto this box. Anne How do you know you have had viruses ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 06 Jun 2003 12:01 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 06 Jun 2003 3:01 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: but I've been shocked at the fact that over the past 2 weeks I must have had about 10 coming onto this box. Anne How do you know you have had viruses ?

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-06 Thread g
Anne Wilson wrote: Yes - but the point I was making was that the address book it was accessing contains a host of addresses from this list. and, if this is true, a gathering of names that have received said infected email should show who is infected. wake up, people... peace out. tc,hago.

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-06 Thread Ian Trickett
email supposedly from Newbie. Has anyone else gotten an email today with the subject: Re: [newbie] OT - PCLO offline because of SCO! It has an attachment titled Address-denon021122.WAB.scr which is 70.5k, the entire message is 96.8k. Looks like one of the rapidly spreading new virus's

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 06 June 2003 01:53 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: One thing that W2K can do that *nix can't: Make a directory unreadable to anyone. I've used that to hold virus code for analysis. I'm no expert but with Linuxs' permission capabilities why couldn't you do that? Just curious! :-) --

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-06 Thread Richard Urwin
On Friday 06 Jun 2003 7:26 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 06 June 2003 01:53 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: One thing that W2K can do that *nix can't: Make a directory unreadable to anyone. I've used that to hold virus code for analysis. I'm no expert but with Linuxs' permission capabilities

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 06 Jun 2003 8:00 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: On Friday 06 Jun 2003 7:26 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 06 June 2003 01:53 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: One thing that W2K can do that *nix can't: Make a directory unreadable to anyone. I've used that to hold virus code for

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-06 Thread Todd Slater
-Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] En nombre de Ian Trickett Enviado el: Viernes, 06 de Junio de 2003 11:21 a.m. Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie. Bugbear.B Another very good reason

RE: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-06 Thread Shaun Grogan
Loosely translate he is saying Saquenme of its damn list I have been two years requesting it -Original Message- From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 1:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie. On Friday

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-06 Thread Anne Wilson
- From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 1:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie. On Friday 06 Jun 2003 5:43 pm, Walter Anticona wrote: Saquenme de su maldita lista Llevo dos años pidiendolo I beg your

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-06 Thread Anne Wilson
: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 1:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie. On Friday 06 Jun 2003 5:43 pm, Walter Anticona wrote: Saquenme de su maldita lista Llevo dos años pidiendolo I beg your pardon

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-06 Thread Richard Urwin
On Friday 06 Jun 2003 8:07 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 06 Jun 2003 8:00 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: On Friday 06 Jun 2003 7:26 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 06 June 2003 01:53 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: One thing that W2K can do that *nix can't: Make a directory unreadable to

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 06 June 2003 04:26 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: Absolutely nothing. Until I decide to have a look at it, change the permissions and open it very carefully. Until then I know that if I click on the wrong thing I'm not going to infect myself or anyone else. In 'Nix you can set it to not

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 06 June 2003 03:00 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: Root can always read everything, even when the permisions are set to disallow it. I'll have to disagree with that. Here, when I remove all permissions from any file or folder in /root, even root can not see it or enter it Mayperhaps

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-06 Thread Jan Wilson
* Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030606 15:01]: I'll have to disagree with that. Here, when I remove all permissions from any file or folder in /root, even root can not see it or enter it Mayperhaps your setup is different? Can someone else verify this please? Thanks! Here, with

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-06 Thread Richard Urwin
On Friday 06 Jun 2003 9:49 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 06 June 2003 04:26 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: Absolutely nothing. Until I decide to have a look at it, change the permissions and open it very carefully. Until then I know that if I click on the wrong thing I'm not going to infect

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 06 June 2003 05:44 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: It had a .txt extension, so yes as a matter of fact. I'm just paranoid :-) Rich, I'm with ya buddy! The question is, are we paranoid enough? :-) -- /\ Dark Lord

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 06 June 2003 05:26 pm, Jan Wilson wrote: Here, with Mandrake 9.1, I can create a directory in /root, copy a text file into it, chmod both to 0, then (as root) cd into that directory, and read the file. I then deleted both file and directory while the permissions were d- on

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-06 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Friday 06 June 2003 04:01 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Thanks - I'm not a lot wiser, but I see he got his answer. Funny, though, I'm sure I know that name from somewhere. Anne Anne: The name rang a bell here, too, so I took a look through my Trash folder. It appears that Walter Anticona got

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-06 Thread Femme
On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 21:18, Carroll Grigsby wrote: I'm sitting here thinking about this whole incident as some sort of transformed Fawlty Towers episode with the part of Walter played by John Cleese. Hmmm... I wonder if Walter's wonderful and beautiful MS Windows got infected by

Re[2]: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-05 Thread rikona
Hello Stephen, Thursday, June 5, 2003, 7:35:34 PM, you wrote: SK usual McAfee and Symantec that MOST people use are quite SK ineffective to catch them right off the bat; Speaking of bats, I use TheBat! in Windoze for email. FAR better, safer, and more private than any M$ email software. It,

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-05 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 20:15:06 -0700 rikona [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: A question: many viruses are nothing more than an executable script. In Win, it is rare that one needs to run a script, and a 'good thing to do' is to simply disable the scripting capability. But - in Linux, scripting looks

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-05 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 12:19, Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 05 June 2003 10:01 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 10:53, Chris wrote: Has anyone else gotten an email today with the subject: Re: [newbie] OT - PCLO offline because of SCO! It's either Bugbear.B or Sobig.H