Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)

2001-06-27 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> , Norman Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >-Original Message- >From: Tony Firshman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 10:51 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !

RE: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)

2001-06-26 Thread Norman Dunbar
-Original Message- From: Tony Firshman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 10:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !) >> I don't run M$ mail programs - that is the reason I don't spread them! At work,

Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)

2001-06-26 Thread Tony Firshman
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 at 19:09:20, you wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > >- Original Message - >From: Norman Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !) > > >> I got a private email Geoff. > >Thanks

Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)

2001-06-26 Thread Geoff Wicks
- Original Message - From: Norman Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !) > I got a private email Geoff. Thanks, also to Tony. The reason I posed this question was that you were the only people to report the virus, but you would have

Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)

2001-06-25 Thread Tony Firshman
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 at 08:20:13, you wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) >I got a private email Geoff. Ditto. >Just a query on this thread. > >Did the people who received the virus email get it via an email from the >ql-users group or via a "private" email? > >Geoff Wicks >[EMAIL PROTECTED] --

RE: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)

2001-06-24 Thread Norman Dunbar
:http://www.LynxFinancialSystems.com -Original Message- From: Geoff Wicks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 7:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not

RE: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)

2001-06-24 Thread Norman Dunbar
Sorry Richard, I missed those out :o) Norman. Norman Dunbar EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Database/Unix administrator Phone: 0113 289 6265 Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. Fax:0113 201 7265

Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)

2001-06-24 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Timothy Swenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >I hate to continue this off topic issue and I dislike Microsoft as much as >the next person, but the real Outlook issue is that the default options for >Outlook are very unsecure. Most users are not aware of the securi

Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)

2001-06-23 Thread Andrew Halliwell
> Tony, that will only stop it from spreading outward from your, ahem, PC. It > won't stop it running its payload - which is apparently to delete a few > files at random then later on, format your hard drive(s). That'd only happen in mailers with "execute attachments without asking" settings. I t

Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)

2001-06-23 Thread Geoff Wicks
Just a query on this thread. Did the people who received the virus email get it via an email from the ql-users group or via a "private" email? Geoff Wicks [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)

2001-06-22 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard Zidlicky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >> >> >> >> Anyway it will only affect people who are foolish enough to run M$ >> >> mailers. >> >> >> Tony, that will only stop it from spreading outward from your, ahem, PC. It >> won't stop it running its payload

Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)

2001-06-22 Thread Timothy Swenson
At 07:06 PM 6/22/2001 +0200, you wrote: >Suffice to say, that last month about 80% messages were in search of >a solution for an MS Outlook problem and now the next purely MS problem. >IMHO this can be either because MS does have only braindamaged users or >because the software is braindamaged.

Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)

2001-06-22 Thread Richard Zidlicky
> > > >> Anyway it will only affect people who are foolish enough to run M$ > >> mailers. > > > Tony, that will only stop it from spreading outward from your, ahem, PC. It > won't stop it running its payload - which is apparently to delete a few > files at random then later on, format your ha

Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)

2001-06-22 Thread John Hitchcock
>> Anyway it will only affect people who are foolish enough to run M$ >> mailers. Tony, that will only stop it from spreading outward from your, ahem, PC. It won't stop it running its payload - which is apparently to delete a few files at random then later on, format your hard drive(s). Norman

RE: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax)

2001-06-21 Thread Norman Dunbar
ystems.com -Original Message- From: William Newell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 2:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax) Hi Everybody, Now that I have successfully purged my system of virus(s), I feel it is safe to admit

RE: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax)

2001-06-21 Thread William Newell
Hi Everybody, Now that I have successfully purged my system of virus(s), I feel it is safe to admit being the inadvertent dupe of the sick mind that devised the virus that infected my PC.. I had received an e-mail allegedly from a business contact of mine which included an attachment. As we re

RE: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)

2001-06-21 Thread Norman Dunbar
-Original Message- From: Tony Firshman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 9:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !) >> Anyway it will only affect people who are foolish enough to run M$ >> mailers. Tony, th

Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)

2001-06-21 Thread Tony Firshman
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 at 12:38:38, you wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) >I only had the jokes and the exe file. There was no report on mine. > >Mind you, this virus (is a worm) and burrows into your system then hijacks >Outlook to send itself areound to everyone in your address book - so it >coul

Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)

2001-06-20 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> , Norman Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >I only had the jokes and the exe file. There was no report on mine. > >Mind you, this virus (is a worm) and burrows into your system then hijacks >Outlook to send itself areound to everyone in your address book - so it >cou

RE: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)

2001-06-20 Thread Norman Dunbar
-Original Message- From: Tony Firshman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 11:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !) >> The source was Credit Suisse, and

Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)

2001-06-20 Thread Tony Firshman
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 at 10:32:07, you wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) >I received an email yesterday from a William Newell esq (aka Bill !) which >has a couple of jokes on it, and an exe file. > >My work's email scanner detected that the exe was full of virus and deleted >it from the email. > >

[ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)

2001-06-20 Thread Norman Dunbar
I received an email yesterday from a William Newell esq (aka Bill !) which has a couple of jokes on it, and an exe file. My work's email scanner detected that the exe was full of virus and deleted it from the email. If you got/get an email from Bill, with an exe file attached be very careful ab