In case you haven't found out about this already, this is the latest version of the mimail trojan. (mimail.i). You can read more about this at Trend Micro.
I'm afraid CNN is at least as left-leaning as Fox is right-leaning. For a while, before completely giving up on CNN, I got into the habit of first turning on CNN and watching until I saw a "straight news" story with a left-slant. When I saw the first left-leaning bias, I turned to Fox news. It got to the point that I'd watch a total of 30 seconds of CNN before turning the channel. Yes, Fox could lean to the right, but I think CNN leans even further to the left and still says they have no bias. If you're going to complain about Fox, complain louder about CNN.
This morning I got to work so see that a record number of spams were deleted over the weekend for my email users. I'm feeling pretty good since I just updated my spam filtering capability last week. Then the first three calls I get are from users complaining about all the spam they got over the weekend. I blocked a record number, but a record number still got through.
I'm ready to do anything to get this to stop. What would anyone recommend?
I'm currently using 3 RBLs, SAV Spam heuristics, subject line filtering and sender filtering. I'd love to find a new SMTP gateway, but I'm no 'nix guru. What would you recommend?
I tried this and the phone company would do nothing except ask me to dial *79 or something like that. This "traces" the call. Of course, it only traces it on their system and they will give you none of the information. The only way they would do anything about it is if you end up dialing *79 (or whatever) three times for the same caller in subsequent calls. The best part of the whole situation is they charge you to trace calls like this, but won't tell you ahead of time how much it is. FYI: It's $1.00. I still say telemarketers and local phone companies are in league together. I've recently moved and refuse to get a landline. I'm fed up with the local phone company and all the hoops you need to jump through to not be bothered.
Actually, this works out for the best. First, BMG wastes their money on Sunncomm's "security". Sunncomm makes an ass of itself and loses all of that said money and hopefully goes out of business. I think that's a nifty way to siphon cash from RIAA members. Come on! Let's see more of these los^H^H^H copy prevention companies!
Absolutely. If I had mod points and hadn't already posted, I'd mod you up. I've always attempted to find the individual responsible for bad policies in companies I've had dealings with. In the few I've found, I made it clear to upper management exactly why they weren't getting my business again, along with the name of the person responsible. For all the rest, all I could do is stop doing business with them and tell everyone I know why. There is ALWAYS at least one person responsible. Make them pay for bad decisions.
I just got off the phone with some woman at Sunncomm. She (and the rest of the company) just don't get it. All she would say is "Are you aware of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act? It makes this illegal," "We aren't suing him," and "We are not infringing on your rights, you can do anything you want with our product". I told her in no uncertain terms that I am boycotting every company that does business with them, but the only customer of theirs I can find is BMG. I saw a listing of their "artists" and there's only about two that I would even consider buying. I also explained what the Washington Post had to say about it and she sounded suprised that anyone said they were suing the guy. Either she's misinformed or they could be backing down.
Things similar to this have pissed me off in the past, but this is over the line. I'm totally pissed. Time for a valium.
Thanks for the link. I'd mod you up if I had points.
Did you see this one? 13. Global elastic response simulation. Uh, so they're going to see how high the Earth bounces if dropped from a 10-story window?;-)
I can tell you without a doubt that Lee Terry (R-NE) has a major amount of annoying^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H telemarkers in his state. My current apartment is about 2 blocks away from one of them. I always have to hold my nose when I drive by. I'm moving tomorrow and will not get a home phone hooked up. Who needs a do not call list?
OK...Which one of you guys did it?
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Which one of you guys hijacked it? We all know that the only people that read Slashdot are hackers and pirates. You've had your fun. Give it back now.
And the most ironic thing about this post is that Josie and the Pussycats movie is all about super-mega-corps brainwashing the public into thinking they need to buy into the latest pop music fads.
So instead of Kazaa, Gnutella and Napster, book piracy will be by email? God help us! Just when I'm trying to convince my higher-ups that emailing that graphics-laden instruction manual (10 MB) to everyone in the company is NOT a good idea.
Hey! Maybe then they'll outlaw email and it will give us a chance to revamp SMTP!
Why does this remind me of the talking bat from Babylon 5 - River of Souls? Starts as a "cheer-you-up" stress reliever saying "I love you!" and "I forgive you!" whenever you hit something with it. Once a hacking tech gets his hands on it, it makes a handsome gift for the annoying lawyer, "I'm an idiot!", "I'm a loser!", "No one likes me!", and "My mommy dresses me funny!"
Okay, so every spam needs to have a point. I'll buy that. But then what about this? I review subject lines of blocked spam to be sure no obviously legitimate email gets blocked. I really didn't think this one was legitimate, I just thought the subject line was funny, so I had to read the rest:
I'm a time traveler stuck here in 2003. Since nobody here seems to be able to get me what I need (safely here to me), I will have to build a simple time travel circut to get where I need myself. I am going to need an easy to follow picture diagram for a simple time travel circut, which can be built out of (readily available) parts here in 2003. Please email me any schematics you have. I will pay good money for anything you send me I can use Or if you have the rechargeable AMD dimensional warp generator wrist watch unit available, and are 100% certain you have a (secure) means of delivering it to me please also reply. Send a separate email to me at: info@federalfundingprogram.com
Do not reply back directly to this email as it will only be bounced back to you.
Thank You
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hmmm...Tempted to start sending spam myself, if I can get such things by doing it.
I live in Nebraska, I've been through Kansas a number of times. I've also seen genuine hills and mountains while travelling outside the region. I believe most of the "hills" in Kansas and Nebraska (and Oklahoma etc.) are officially called "rolling plains". I think it's a matter of human nature, thinking what you have is better than it actually is.
A similar argument could be started when talking about football.
A few of my co-workers and I were on a private plane and became curious about what the cellular coverage would be like while on a plane. Since the pilot didn't mind, we turned on our mobiles and watched the coverage gauges.
I'd find it hard to believe anyone could have a real conversation via mobile phone on a commercial flight. Given that our plane was relatively slow and low compared to a commercial flight, we zipped from one cell to the next. The way the coverage went from 5 bars to zero and back again every 10-15 seconds, I'd imagine the gauge would be going bonkers when that high up and going that fast. "RING!"
"Hello?"
"Hi honey, I'll be home in--bzz--<dial tone>"
"RING!"
"Hello?"
"Sorry, lost coverage there for a--bzz--<dial tone>"
"RING!"
"Hello?"
"Cell phone dropped off again. Anyway--bzz--<dial tone>"
1. Use Symantec Antivirus for SMTP Gateways 3.1. Blocks spam by subject, sender, multiple RBLs and heuristic antispam and has whitelist support. Scans for viruses and attachments can be deleted by filename with wildcards. I block anything that is executable in a Windows environment (since we use Windows, Exchange and Outlook -- no flames, please). Any file deleted gets a.txt file added to the message stating that <filename> is not allowed for security reasons. This means that if anyone needs to send a.exe,.cmd,.bat,.vb?,.cpl,.dll, and a number of others must first call so I can temporarily disable the deletion.
2. Use another company's antivirus on the mail servers. We use Sybari with multiple scan engines. This saved us this past week when the new FortNight.E managed to get past SAV for SMTP because it didn't detect it yet and it was essentially a script embedded in an html. (I'd love to strip them, too, but too many legitimate emails come through as html.) Sybari caught it after Symantec missed it.
3. Use another antivirus package for clients and servers. We use SAV Corporate edition with a master server setup so that one server d/l's updates from Symantec nightly or when I force it. Each remote location's server d/l's from that server nightly or when I force it. Each workstation d/l's from their location's server every 4 hours.
Since starting this practice, we've had a total of 2 viruses make it into our network. One was on a laptop that, for some strange reason never got antivirus installed and it was infected at the user's home. The virus never got further than that, but it took a while to discover where the virus alerts were coming from when it attempted to infect other machines. The other one had a corrupt install of the desktop antivirus and the end user didn't let us know that something didn't look right on his client. He then fell for the e-card virus (Go to this URL to download the greeting card X sent you.). Again, never got further than this one workstation. This is all the infections we've seen in over 2 years. Not bad for a 1500 user network.
I run a system with about 1400 users and I see dictionary attacks all the time. I ended up directing the domain of "domainnameharvesting.com" (or something very similar to it) to 127.0.0.1 because they were sending hundreds of spams to addresses that are not on our system and don't even conform to our standard. It was looking for what bounced and what didn't. Once it didn't receive any bounces at all for a few days, the spams from this particular domain stopped. Maybe it would have stopped anyway. Maybe now they are selling all the addresses as "confirmed".
True. Every time you dive you take a risk. I understand that and that's why I follow the tables conservatively. I could still get bent, but I'm willing to take that risk.
I would not advocate those making the tables be thrown in jail unless it had been proven that their tables were inaccurate and they covered up the problem. That's what happened in the case of these dive computers. When the problem with their computers was presented to them, they fired those wanting to fix the problem. They recklessly endangered people's lives and many people were injured because of their intentional actions. That's why they should be in jail.
When I dive, I plan with a conservative dive table. Why risk your life just so you can stay underwater for another few minutes?
Corporations, by their very nature, don't care about their customers. All they care about is profits. Granted, some people within coporations may care about customers, but they have to follow the corporate rules.
Leeman and Ruchti (the founders of the company) ought to be thrown in jail for a long time and the company liquidated. All proceeds should be given to those harmed by their actions. I don't care that the current owners "didn't know" about the problems. It should serve as an incentive for future people/corporations that you will be held responsible for what your company does.
I'm thinking the worms they found were probably eggs when accident happened. I'm no expert, but I'd think worm eggs would be more likely to survive than worms.
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In case you haven't found out about this already, this is the latest version of the mimail trojan. (mimail.i). You can read more about this at Trend Micro.
The ones that would pay would be those who leave their mail relays open. One major bill from the ISP would cause them to fix it quick.
I'm afraid CNN is at least as left-leaning as Fox is right-leaning. For a while, before completely giving up on CNN, I got into the habit of first turning on CNN and watching until I saw a "straight news" story with a left-slant. When I saw the first left-leaning bias, I turned to Fox news. It got to the point that I'd watch a total of 30 seconds of CNN before turning the channel. Yes, Fox could lean to the right, but I think CNN leans even further to the left and still says they have no bias. If you're going to complain about Fox, complain louder about CNN.
Are we going to be grown-ups about this, or are there going to be a million immature posts...
You're new here aren't you?This morning I got to work so see that a record number of spams were deleted over the weekend for my email users. I'm feeling pretty good since I just updated my spam filtering capability last week. Then the first three calls I get are from users complaining about all the spam they got over the weekend. I blocked a record number, but a record number still got through.
I'm ready to do anything to get this to stop. What would anyone recommend?
I'm currently using 3 RBLs, SAV Spam heuristics, subject line filtering and sender filtering. I'd love to find a new SMTP gateway, but I'm no 'nix guru. What would you recommend?
I tried this and the phone company would do nothing except ask me to dial *79 or something like that. This "traces" the call. Of course, it only traces it on their system and they will give you none of the information. The only way they would do anything about it is if you end up dialing *79 (or whatever) three times for the same caller in subsequent calls. The best part of the whole situation is they charge you to trace calls like this, but won't tell you ahead of time how much it is. FYI: It's $1.00. I still say telemarketers and local phone companies are in league together. I've recently moved and refuse to get a landline. I'm fed up with the local phone company and all the hoops you need to jump through to not be bothered.
Actually, this works out for the best. First, BMG wastes their money on Sunncomm's "security". Sunncomm makes an ass of itself and loses all of that said money and hopefully goes out of business. I think that's a nifty way to siphon cash from RIAA members. Come on! Let's see more of these los^H^H^H copy prevention companies!
Absolutely. If I had mod points and hadn't already posted, I'd mod you up. I've always attempted to find the individual responsible for bad policies in companies I've had dealings with. In the few I've found, I made it clear to upper management exactly why they weren't getting my business again, along with the name of the person responsible. For all the rest, all I could do is stop doing business with them and tell everyone I know why. There is ALWAYS at least one person responsible. Make them pay for bad decisions.
Things similar to this have pissed me off in the past, but this is over the line. I'm totally pissed. Time for a valium.
Thanks for the link. I'd mod you up if I had points.
Did you see this one? 13. Global elastic response simulation. Uh, so they're going to see how high the Earth bounces if dropped from a 10-story window? ;-)
I can tell you without a doubt that Lee Terry (R-NE) has a major amount of annoying^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H telemarkers in his state. My current apartment is about 2 blocks away from one of them. I always have to hold my nose when I drive by. I'm moving tomorrow and will not get a home phone hooked up. Who needs a do not call list?
Which one of you guys hijacked it? We all know that the only people that read Slashdot are hackers and pirates. You've had your fun. Give it back now.
More likely is that most ISPs would automatically block all but http, ftp and chat ports. If you wanted more ports open, you'd have to pay more.
And the most ironic thing about this post is that Josie and the Pussycats movie is all about super-mega-corps brainwashing the public into thinking they need to buy into the latest pop music fads.
So instead of Kazaa, Gnutella and Napster, book piracy will be by email? God help us! Just when I'm trying to convince my higher-ups that emailing that graphics-laden instruction manual (10 MB) to everyone in the company is NOT a good idea.
Hey! Maybe then they'll outlaw email and it will give us a chance to revamp SMTP!
Why does this remind me of the talking bat from Babylon 5 - River of Souls? Starts as a "cheer-you-up" stress reliever saying "I love you!" and "I forgive you!" whenever you hit something with it. Once a hacking tech gets his hands on it, it makes a handsome gift for the annoying lawyer, "I'm an idiot!", "I'm a loser!", "No one likes me!", and "My mommy dresses me funny!"
I live in Nebraska, I've been through Kansas a number of times. I've also seen genuine hills and mountains while travelling outside the region. I believe most of the "hills" in Kansas and Nebraska (and Oklahoma etc.) are officially called "rolling plains". I think it's a matter of human nature, thinking what you have is better than it actually is.
A similar argument could be started when talking about football.
A few of my co-workers and I were on a private plane and became curious about what the cellular coverage would be like while on a plane. Since the pilot didn't mind, we turned on our mobiles and watched the coverage gauges.
I'd find it hard to believe anyone could have a real conversation via mobile phone on a commercial flight. Given that our plane was relatively slow and low compared to a commercial flight, we zipped from one cell to the next. The way the coverage went from 5 bars to zero and back again every 10-15 seconds, I'd imagine the gauge would be going bonkers when that high up and going that fast.
"RING!"
"Hello?"
"Hi honey, I'll be home in--bzz--<dial tone>"
"RING!"
"Hello?"
"Sorry, lost coverage there for a--bzz--<dial tone>"
"RING!"
"Hello?"
"Cell phone dropped off again. Anyway--bzz--<dial tone>"
Here's what we do:
1. Use Symantec Antivirus for SMTP Gateways 3.1. Blocks spam by subject, sender, multiple RBLs and heuristic antispam and has whitelist support. Scans for viruses and attachments can be deleted by filename with wildcards. I block anything that is executable in a Windows environment (since we use Windows, Exchange and Outlook -- no flames, please). Any file deleted gets a .txt file added to the message stating that <filename> is not allowed for security reasons. This means that if anyone needs to send a .exe, .cmd, .bat, .vb?, .cpl, .dll, and a number of others must first call so I can temporarily disable the deletion.
2. Use another company's antivirus on the mail servers. We use Sybari with multiple scan engines. This saved us this past week when the new FortNight.E managed to get past SAV for SMTP because it didn't detect it yet and it was essentially a script embedded in an html. (I'd love to strip them, too, but too many legitimate emails come through as html.) Sybari caught it after Symantec missed it.
3. Use another antivirus package for clients and servers. We use SAV Corporate edition with a master server setup so that one server d/l's updates from Symantec nightly or when I force it. Each remote location's server d/l's from that server nightly or when I force it. Each workstation d/l's from their location's server every 4 hours.
Since starting this practice, we've had a total of 2 viruses make it into our network. One was on a laptop that, for some strange reason never got antivirus installed and it was infected at the user's home. The virus never got further than that, but it took a while to discover where the virus alerts were coming from when it attempted to infect other machines. The other one had a corrupt install of the desktop antivirus and the end user didn't let us know that something didn't look right on his client. He then fell for the e-card virus (Go to this URL to download the greeting card X sent you.). Again, never got further than this one workstation. This is all the infections we've seen in over 2 years. Not bad for a 1500 user network.
What I believe IS ironic is the fact that she was cast as God in Dogma. Bad luck also, but I'd call it ironic.
I run a system with about 1400 users and I see dictionary attacks all the time. I ended up directing the domain of "domainnameharvesting.com" (or something very similar to it) to 127.0.0.1 because they were sending hundreds of spams to addresses that are not on our system and don't even conform to our standard. It was looking for what bounced and what didn't. Once it didn't receive any bounces at all for a few days, the spams from this particular domain stopped. Maybe it would have stopped anyway. Maybe now they are selling all the addresses as "confirmed".
True. Every time you dive you take a risk. I understand that and that's why I follow the tables conservatively. I could still get bent, but I'm willing to take that risk.
I would not advocate those making the tables be thrown in jail unless it had been proven that their tables were inaccurate and they covered up the problem. That's what happened in the case of these dive computers. When the problem with their computers was presented to them, they fired those wanting to fix the problem. They recklessly endangered people's lives and many people were injured because of their intentional actions. That's why they should be in jail.
When I dive, I plan with a conservative dive table. Why risk your life just so you can stay underwater for another few minutes?
Corporations, by their very nature, don't care about their customers. All they care about is profits. Granted, some people within coporations may care about customers, but they have to follow the corporate rules.
Leeman and Ruchti (the founders of the company) ought to be thrown in jail for a long time and the company liquidated. All proceeds should be given to those harmed by their actions. I don't care that the current owners "didn't know" about the problems. It should serve as an incentive for future people/corporations that you will be held responsible for what your company does.
I'm thinking the worms they found were probably eggs when accident happened. I'm no expert, but I'd think worm eggs would be more likely to survive than worms.
Oh yeah...FP!