rec.autos.simulators

by **John DiFoo** » Mon, 22 Sep 2003 02:31:28

On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 08:27:28 GMT, "Jan Verschueren"

>"ymenard" wrote...
>> > <snip>
>> Yes, it was very much proved that this is the case, in various
>> of newsgroups all across the Usenet. Bet it's the CoS again...

>The who?

>Jan.
>=---

Council of Spammers, an arcane and secret society devoted
to turning the Internet into a spam-and-virus infested wasteland.

John DiFool

by **ymenar** » Mon, 22 Sep 2003 02:42:13

> "ymenard" wrote...
> > > <snip>
> > Yes, it was very much proved that this is the case, in various
> > of newsgroups all across the Usenet. Bet it's the CoS again...

> The who?

Church of Scientology, a major culprit in all usenet-related kooks and
spamming.

--
-- Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard>
-- http://ymenard.cjb.net/
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Corporation - helping America into the New World...

by **Goy Larse** » Mon, 22 Sep 2003 03:00:08

> > "ymenard" wrote...
> > > > <snip>
> > > Yes, it was very much proved that this is the case, in various
> > > of newsgroups all across the Usenet. Bet it's the CoS again...

> > The who?

> Church of Scientology, a major culprit in all usenet-related kooks and
> spamming.

L. Ron is my HERO !!!

Beers and cheers
(uncle) Goy
"goyl at nettx dot no"

http://www.theuspits.com

"A man is only as old as the woman he feels........"
--Groucho Marx--

by **Bruce Kennewel** » Mon, 22 Sep 2003 07:39:43

I like your nom de plume (sp?).
I wonder how many denizens of RAS would recognise this character?! :)

by **elrik** » Mon, 22 Sep 2003 08:42:04

> I like your nom de plume (sp?).
> I wonder how many denizens of RAS would recognise this character?! :)

Those of us old enough to remember probably seem punch drunk anyway. ;o)

Elrikk

by **Joe Paloo** » Tue, 23 Sep 2003 06:26:34

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:45:08 GMT, "Jan Verschueren"

>It has to be a coincidence due to the way this type of virus works, i.e.
>using the addresses in the e-mail adressbook of the affected. I've not yet
>heard of one culling headers of subscribed newsgroups for possible targets.

>Jan.
>=---

Yeah but...(Don't you just hate it when somebody starts out that way?)

Anyway...the main reason that I say that it's coming from this

This is the only place I've used that fake address. I'm sure it's not
in anybody's address book because it's not real. But the virus
messages I was getting were all coming to THAT address only. I never
would have even known about them, except for the fact that I'm the
administrator for my domain name, and they got to me through the
"catch-all" system that it in place at my web hosting site. Anything
that is not a real address that comes in, will always go to the
administrator.

Joe...

by **Joe Paloo** » Tue, 23 Sep 2003 06:30:12

On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 08:39:43 +1000, "Bruce Kennewell"

>I like your nom de plume (sp?).
>I wonder how many denizens of RAS would recognise this character?! :)

Probably not all that many. Unless they are older than dirt...like
you and me.

Joe Palooka

by **Joe Paloo** » Tue, 23 Sep 2003 09:12:44

On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 08:22:14 GMT, "Jan Verschueren"

>It's also not because Joe changed his return address he's not getting the
>virus anymore.

I just went on my web-based email and checked my bogus username that I
had filtered all the abusive mail to. And there were a bunch...so I'm
still getting them. I didn't get them for a day there, so I thought
they were done.

But oh no!

Joe

by **GMpartsgu** » Tue, 23 Sep 2003 11:41:37

I am seeing the same complaint from a couple other newsgroups, so looks like
a nifty worm gone rampant. Norton claims my comp is clean, although i was
getting 50 or so of those fake MS e-mails or the fake returned mail ones.
I'll just bounce the offending materials until this new game gets clamped
down. Hopefully someday this kinda stuff will be punishable by sterilization
:)

by **Dave Henri** » Tue, 23 Sep 2003 12:30:09

> On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:45:08 GMT, "Jan Verschueren"

>>It has to be a coincidence due to the way this type of virus works,
>>i.e. using the addresses in the e-mail adressbook of the affected.

(snip)
Well I have received 10 of the emails in the last week, consisting of
three different messages. Fortunately I have Eudora instead of Outlook and
I have learned to keep the messages from displaying. That plus my AVG
email scanner traps any virus before it can do it's dirty work. So I
strongly recomend all the users here get some sort of email virus scanner,
AVG is free, and also use safe se...errr I mean safe Email procedures.
Anything from MS security update or Inet is bogus and probably has a
virus attached. Do not even highlight those for removal. Use the shift key
to highlight the messages above and below those and then delete them all
without ever touching the email with one of those viri.
(I did that for Bruce) ! :)
dave henrie

by **Bruce Kennewel** » Tue, 23 Sep 2003 15:33:20

I can recall that comic strip with great fondness. My dad and I loved it -
that and Mandrake The Magician and*** Tracy.........

ALERT! ALERT!
NOSTALGIA ATTACK!!

Bruce.

by **Bruce Kennewel** » Tue, 23 Sep 2003 15:34:43

http://www.toonopedia.com/palooka.htm

:)

by **Tim** » Tue, 23 Sep 2003 16:38:39

Unless I am mistaken, the flaw in OE that would leak a potential virus simply by
viewing the email (without opening anything attached) is limited to 5.01 and
5.5.

I'm on 6.0, and temporarily filtering all of them to a hold folder to build a
filter list, and hence, viewing them at will.

--
Tim White

by **elrik** » Tue, 23 Sep 2003 17:10:08

It's like dejevu all over again. (Yogi Bera)

Elrikk

by **Ruud van Ga** » Wed, 24 Sep 2003 00:50:53

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 02:41:37 GMT, "GMpartsguy"

>I am seeing the same complaint from a couple other newsgroups, so looks like
>a nifty worm gone rampant. Norton claims my comp is clean, although i was
>getting 50 or so of those fake MS e-mails or the fake returned mail ones.
>I'll just bounce the offending materials until this new game gets clamped
>down.

Don't bounce, just throw away. I get about 100-200 daily now, and some
people even get 300+/hour.

Someone ought to get hanged on public television for this. I see a TV
format here; virus creators & crocodiles. ;-)

Ruud van Gaal
Free car sim: http://www.racer.nl/
Pencil art : http://www.marketgraph.nl/gallery/

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