I am a moron. I admit it - I caught this last wed. Even had Norton running. It didn't blink. The email came from a client during the day. The attachment was an excel spreadsheet that I had sent her earlier. Yes, I should have read the email and then I would have been suspicious, yes Norton should have caught it, but I open maybe 15 excel spreadsheets a day sometimes from this client. I don't read every email - or I didn't.
My personal firewall blocked their smtp program from sending - but then it attached itself to ie and ran through IE's security area in my firewall. It is set to send thru the smtp server you have setup in your mail program. It sent thru my local email. The only reason I noticed was paranoia and running netstat.
This virus can and does attack more than just outlook. I run Pegasus. If it infects an outlook machine it sends to emails in their address book, in my case it went thru the cache of IE. I had to send apologies to a bunch of tribes players. It doesn't parse emails very well as I got 10-20 obviously broken emails bounced back.
Norton would not remove it and at that time their was no mention on any site or newsgroup so I was forced to remove it myself. Hiding in the recycle bin took me a second time to catch.
If you read your email from a web client you can still get infected and it can still send out depending on your setup.
If you run an email server - you can block this virus very easily as the text comes in two flavors an English and Spanish version. Here is the text:
I send you this file in order to have your advice
Espero me puedas ayudar con el archivo que te mando
Pretty embarrassing, but don't just dismiss this as another love bug virus hitting outlook.
Paying for everything doesn't work. When you go to the bulk food section of your supermarket- you don't stick your head in the dispeners and just start chowing down on gummy worms (the best of the gummy critters). Because even though each one is only 1/100 of a cent - you need to eat millions!
Every site is only charging.05 a day - but its every site. I go to more than 5 a day. Add to that sites like salon - $30.00 for a year of salon - not bad if I thought I was going to get a year of salon, but since I will probably get 3 months - why bother?
Look at all the free for life now charging, or the ad networks like UGO continually changing the terms - agreements mean nothing - I trust no one and no site to deliver me anything in the future - to pay for future content is a fools bet, to pay for current content is an overwhelming mess, to pay for MP3's when they record companies spam me?? Well that is just unthinkable.
Ad banners dead? When slashdot runs a all your base are belong to us? Yikes, think geek - think don't get it old farts sitting on top of milk crates surrounded by 300 baud coupling modems talking about when they punched cards.
Half the Internet deserves to die - and half the Internet user - its just a bitch deciding what half.
Its small - not portable... If I lived in a 3x3 hut it would rock, otherwise??? I must be missing something. Or I am right and the Cappuccino can say hello to all the internet appliances when it hits the scrap heap.
We maintained that there is a certain organic scale to web sites and internet companies -- really to any enterprise whatever its purpose -- and that FEED was by nature a small business that, under the right circumstances, could be a profitable one.
Somewhere i heard they let go around 15 people - what were they doing? Most of feed is from freelance writers isn't it? I thought less so but still some for suck. What were these people doing? They said they were going to sell the slashcode version of plastic - but after 6 months, what did they add to slashcode? Removed some features?
What do you always hear at these f'd companies? "this is the best job i ever had", " I have the most fun at this job", "I love everyone I work with" and I bet they also love the fact that they never have to produce, to actually do some frigging work. Six months with slashcode and nothing added? Any real company would have fired you in the first month.
Sure, most of the "staff" wasn't working on slashcode, but what were they doing? Requesting menus from restaurants? Checking out the latest in bottled water?
Thank Bigfoot? Give me a break. What am I thanking them for? For being the #1 return email address in spam?
The quickest most effective spam filter you can create is to delete all emails containing bigfoot.com. But don't delete all emails with bigfoot in them as you may miss that email warning you they are about to re-play the Six Million Dollar Man Episode featuring bigfoot.
Move from one slashdot page to another and then go back. Notice the ad changed? The javascript loads a new ad on each page viewing. The server did not serve the page up a second time - but your client did request a new ad banner. The only way to track this behavior is to act like the ads. Making sure you count each time the client displays the page - not each time the server serves up a page. Okay? Chet
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I am a moron. I admit it - I caught this last wed. Even had Norton running. It didn't blink. The email came from a client during the day. The attachment was an excel spreadsheet that I had sent her earlier. Yes, I should have read the email and then I would have been suspicious, yes Norton should have caught it, but I open maybe 15 excel spreadsheets a day sometimes from this client. I don't read every email - or I didn't.
My personal firewall blocked their smtp program from sending - but then it attached itself to ie and ran through IE's security area in my firewall. It is set to send thru the smtp server you have setup in your mail program. It sent thru my local email. The only reason I noticed was paranoia and running netstat.
This virus can and does attack more than just outlook. I run Pegasus. If it infects an outlook machine it sends to emails in their address book, in my case it went thru the cache of IE. I had to send apologies to a bunch of tribes players. It doesn't parse emails very well as I got 10-20 obviously broken emails bounced back.
Norton would not remove it and at that time their was no mention on any site or newsgroup so I was forced to remove it myself. Hiding in the recycle bin took me a second time to catch.
If you read your email from a web client you can still get infected and it can still send out depending on your setup.
If you run an email server - you can block this virus very easily as the text comes in two flavors an English and Spanish version. Here is the text:
I send you this file in order to have your advice
Espero me puedas ayudar con el archivo que te mando
Pretty embarrassing, but don't just dismiss this as another love bug virus hitting outlook.
Chet
Paying for everything doesn't work. When you go to the bulk food section of your supermarket- you don't stick your head in the dispeners and just start chowing down on gummy worms (the best of the gummy critters). Because even though each one is only 1/100 of a cent - you need to eat millions!
.05 a day - but its every site. I go to more than 5 a day. Add to that sites like salon - $30.00 for a year of salon - not bad if I thought I was going to get a year of salon, but since I will probably get 3 months - why bother?
Every site is only charging
Look at all the free for life now charging, or the ad networks like UGO continually changing the terms - agreements mean nothing - I trust no one and no site to deliver me anything in the future - to pay for future content is a fools bet, to pay for current content is an overwhelming mess, to pay for MP3's when they record companies spam me?? Well that is just unthinkable.
Ad banners dead? When slashdot runs a all your base are belong to us? Yikes, think geek - think don't get it old farts sitting on top of milk crates surrounded by 300 baud coupling modems talking about when they punched cards.
Half the Internet deserves to die - and half the Internet user - its just a bitch deciding what half.
Chet
Its small - not portable... If I lived in a 3x3 hut it would rock, otherwise??? I must be missing something. Or I am right and the Cappuccino can say hello to all the internet appliances when it hits the scrap heap.
What do you always hear at these f'd companies? "this is the best job i ever had", " I have the most fun at this job", "I love everyone I work with" and I bet they also love the fact that they never have to produce, to actually do some frigging work. Six months with slashcode and nothing added? Any real company would have fired you in the first month.
Sure, most of the "staff" wasn't working on slashcode, but what were they doing? Requesting menus from restaurants? Checking out the latest in bottled water?
Thank Bigfoot? Give me a break. What am I thanking them for? For being the #1 return email address in spam?
The quickest most effective spam filter you can create is to delete all emails containing bigfoot.com. But don't delete all emails with bigfoot in them as you may miss that email warning you they are about to re-play the Six Million Dollar Man Episode featuring bigfoot.
Chet
Move from one slashdot page to another and then go back. Notice the ad changed? The javascript loads a new ad on each page viewing. The server did not serve the page up a second time - but your client did request a new ad banner. The only way to track this behavior is to act like the ads. Making sure you count each time the client displays the page - not each time the server serves up a page. Okay? Chet