OT: New worm

Isn't it funny, a couple of vw lovers fighting spam, if I had the time I would do some ASCII art on this! Of course I don't have time coz am busy fighting spam, I had to change my email address coz of those bas***ds.

Luckily I use Linux, not for fun but work. The viruses don't hirt me but they piss me off, real bad. I got 325 new mails this weekend and

Worms use address books on infected computers so if you have Outlook Express be warned, it is the most hit!

We should have called this thread "SPAM wars"

klashniv

.....................I'm using OE6 but I've only got 7 email addresses in my address book (I've only had this pc for about six weeks). I've checked with a couple of the people in my address book and they say that they aren't seeing any of these worm generated 'microsoft' spams. It is true that I use my real email address when posting here but this is the first time that I've ever seen this much spam and I've been here at RAMVA for at least four years. There's probably some pimple-faced, morbidly obese 15 year old geek who starts stuttering when around girls somewhere who's really proud of himself.

An operating system that comes with a compiler? Standard distributions of applications come in source form? Is this heaven? User serviceable parts inside? OMG.

What an idea ;)

I rarely get more than 4-5 spam mails a week, and those are usually caught by mail.app's filters, but this worm has (as mentioned in another post) blown away my public email account.

Tim Rogers wrote something unimportant and Jan just piggybacked and stolethe thread from there:

Hay Timmy,

Did you find the bumper sticker in the mega-fweem box I sent you?

Just curious, it was a last minute addition. Thought U might have missed it.

Jan

Tim Rogers wrote something unimportant and Jan just piggybacked and stolethe thread from there:

Hay Timmy,

Did you find the bumper sticker in the mega-fweem box I sent you?

Just curious, it was a last minute addition. Thought U might have missed it.

Jan

.......................Yeah I have it. I've been real busy at work and there's no one around here who can translate it anyway. I was thinking of putting it on my bug but then realized that maybe I should find out what it says before I publicly proclaim that I like to snort reindeer chitlins up my nose.

LOL!

What does it say?

mez wrote in news:meznosppam- snipped-for-privacy@news.easynews.com:

Don't you just love those smug Mac users who never have to get their hands dirty fighting viruses and worms :-)

Seriously, Mez, I envy you. I worked in a Mac shop for years, and had only Macs at home till the kids demanded a windows box for gaming over the net.

We've had the full complement of viruses at work, but at home I've only had the malicious Klez virus. Since then I bought and use Norton 2002, scan for viruses regularly, subscribe to their live update service, and recently started using Ad-aware. To have control over attachments and executables and escape Outlook's notorious flaws, I use Eudora 3.0 (!) for email and Xnews for usenet. And no more file sharing following the Klez episode.

So I can be pretty smug about keeping clean of viruses, too, but I sure wish I had a Mac :-)

Jan wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@rocketmail.com:

I just had a few lessons from Professor Lammi & could give it a try. Zap it to me...w m e r r i l l at r c n dot c o m

OK, here's what I got in email from Tim:

Uhhm:

"DON'T LAUGH: your daughter could be in the back seat!

Tim, here's some dots for you.

Best,

......................I think I will put it on my bug........heh heh.

..........It'll be interesting to see whether anyone around here can read it.

Thanks Bill

Do that ;)

Those are mostly seen on teen-Corollas here. Never seen an older man (you vere 21, right Tim) with that sticker though ;)

Do that ;)

Those are mostly seen on teen-Corollas here. Never seen an older man (you vere 21, right Tim) with that sticker though ;)

..........................I was 21 in 1971. If it were in a language that anyone around here understood, I'd be a little uncomfortable displaying it. If someone from Finland asks me about it, I'll tell them that there's a fellow named Jan Andersson who has them plastered all over his subaru back in Helsinki.

LOL!

My mailbox on Earthlink is limited to 10 MB. From 6 PM Friday night to 8 AM Saterday morning it filled up with those freaking Microsoft Security Patches. I've only once had a full mailbox before and that was when I was in the hospital for 2 weeks! The tide seems to be slacking off. I'd like to catch the little slacker and force him to disassemble a 1600 DP with only a pair of pliers and one screwdriver, then re-assemble the thing with no diagrams to help. Don't let him get back on the computer, give him the shock off a coil every time he goes near it. He'd either learn to avoid computers or to like electroshock therapy.

Charles of Palatine Huzzah I passed Illinois smog-check today.

I have the same problem. Mine is filling up overnight as it only takes

nate

I have an uncle with a ranch in Montana, he has lots of fence post holes that need dug, too.

Pointless labor is one of my favorite punishments, had a cousin that got in trouble with the law.. family shipped him to my uncle for a month and he dug holes from sunup to sundown for a week.

He hasn't been in trouble since. ;)

I've gotten down from 100% in 8 hours to only about 80% in 12 hours. They told me to put my spaminator on High, which I did, but they are not catching this stuff. You would think that since it's been out a week that it would be obvious by now to these people that it is spam and they wouild start picking it off. Funny, the Spam filter on our work mail server DOES catch this stuff.

Charles in Palatine

what I don't understand is why they aren't more motivated to do something about it. You'd think that everyone downloading a 150MB file every 3-4 minutes or so would be putting a HUGE spike in their network traffic, and they'd want to keep that to a minimum.

I just lost a whole year's worth of saved emails because my "inbox" file got corrupted - I guess trying to delete 60 messages at a whack was too much esp. when my inbox file was over a gig... I usually move all the email stuff to another folder once a year, but this computer isn't a year old yet. F**king worm.

nate