I'm under attack!!!

[UEC]

Seriously.. I just went to check my email.. and it started dling my emails as ussual... and it was being slow.. so I checked... cause I ussually only get 2-3 spam emails a day.. and that's it.... so... I thought maybe someone had sent me a file.... I had 21 emails!... so far most with attachments... ALLL saying the same thing.. "See attachment for details"... DON"T open anythiong like this... It's proly a Virus.... I'm just deleting them as they come in...about 18 of those were just viruses... and 2 where "See King dong attack!"... I've gotten 5 of those now.. they are getting annoying.... the last 1 was just some random spam...Now.. that was weird.... E. Metzler (UEC)Duke of Brookshire"Never use a BOO/\/\ist as a diplomat" -- GSClicky Clicky..., Tiss for your own good ya know.

[Gryphon Avocatio]

Yes... that is weird... Gryphon Avocatio Shirerothian Elder SAVE THE ELF! Save the Kiwi! See the Site "War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country."

[UEC]

Indeed... and I just got 6 more emails... E. Metzler (UEC)Duke of Brookshire"Never use a BOO/\/\ist as a diplomat" -- GSClicky Clicky..., Tiss for your own good ya know.

[Philip Locke]

Blockage.I think that I got the LovSan virus. My computer is going much slower than usual and it has started to randomly shut down. Guess I'll have to go over to microsoft.com and see what I can do to flush out this bastard. Locke
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[Ari Rahikkala]

That email virus we're talking about is SoBig.F... I haven't gotten a single copy of it. I don't know which of Vipul's Razor, SpamAssassin or AMaViS it was that blocked it, and I don't really care... I use mutt for reading my mail anyway. On the MSBlast end of things, my ISP blocks incoming packages on port TCP/135 (and pretty much everything under 1024) anyway... which I don't like them for... but at least it means people won't get infected with MSBlast through them... In order to find his equal, an Irishman is forced to talk to a Finn.

[Gryphon Avocatio]

I have XP...and nothing has happened...no worm...cool, huh? Gryphon Avocatio Shirerothian Elder SAVE THE ELF! Save the Kiwi! See the Site "War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country."

[Gman Russell]

Don't boast about it or it will get the virus, thats how it always works *nods*

[Gryphon Avocatio]

I haven't heard about it for awhile...maybe it went away Gryphon Avocatio Shirerothian Elder SAVE THE ELF! Save the Kiwi! See the Site "War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country."

[UEC]

They made a big deal about it here.. If you has Win XP, NT, or 2000.. you HAD to patch your system.. or you could NOT go on the network...I finally got my email connected.. and I think the network filtered it... cuase I got alot weird error messages for emails...deleted them all E. Metzler (UEC)Duke of Brookshire"Never use a BOO/\/\ist as a diplomat" -- GSClicky Clicky..., Tiss for your own good ya know.

[Philip Locke]

I followed portions of Microsoft's instructions on how to deal with the worm, and it seems to have worked so far. Here's hopin'. Locke
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[UEC]

I wonder if I could just email you the stuff my school gave me to take care of that stuff... It's on a CD.. so it's proly to big. E. Metzler (UEC)Duke of Brookshire"Never use a BOO/\/\ist as a diplomat" -- GSClicky Clicky..., Tiss for your own good ya know.

[Philip Locke]

'salright. I think I've destroyed (or at least contained) it and this computer is on its last leg, anyway. Thanks for the offer, though. Locke
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[david northworthy beckfor]

one of the virusus automatically patches your system and removes the origional virus David I Eric Vivian Northorthy Beckford KGCS KL OHDafitt Erick Wiffjan Nurtbefoon Bergsdrumfort"It's a dull man who can only find one way to spell a word"(Mark Twain)My Mission - To be a nuisence to all! (especialy to those I like!), and to be Kaiser of Shieroth by 14/07/04.Aim - hwsbossMSN - KingDaveofDerby

[UEC]

You mean.. an Anti-Virus? E. Metzler (UEC)Duke of Brookshire"Never use a BOO/\/\ist as a diplomat" -- GSClicky Clicky..., Tiss for your own good ya know.

[david northworthy beckfor]

yes..but...intrying to find pc's to cure, it cuasees increased traffic, which can potentioly cripple networks..also, it would inteupt what your doing David I Eric Vivian Northorthy Beckford KGCS KL OHDafitt Erick Wiffjan Nurtbefoon Bergsdrumfort"It's a dull man who can only find one way to spell a word"(Mark Twain)My Mission - To be a nuisence to all! (especialy to those I like!), and to be Kaiser of Shieroth by 14/07/04.Aim - hwsbossMSN - KingDaveofDerby

[UEC]

Well.. Whoever did it... they had their hearts in the right place.... So we can't be TOOO mad at them... they are waging war against the virus.... Slowness is just a casualty of the battle.. E. Metzler (UEC)Duke of Brookshire"Never use a BOO/\/\ist as a diplomat" -- GSClicky Clicky..., Tiss for your own good ya know.

[Ari Rahikkala]

Well... the intent of the writer might have been good... but Nachi exploits two security holes instead of only one, has more efficient scanning rules, doesn't have the major bugs that Blaster had and downloads a file of notable size on each computer it infects, so it might actually have been more destructive than Blaster itself. Well, I think so. I haven't seen any analyses of lost productivity due to these viruses... Though they go mad they shall be sane,Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;Though lovers be lost love shall not;And death shall have no dominion.

[UEC]

But .. does it patch the hole.. IT used? E. Metzler (UEC)Duke of Brookshire"Never use a BOO/\/\ist as a diplomat" -- GSClicky Clicky..., Tiss for your own good ya know.

[Ari Rahikkala]

On computers with a Korean, Chinese or US English version of Windows 2000 or XP, mostly yes. Though they go mad they shall be sane,Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;Though lovers be lost love shall not;And death shall have no dominion.

[ScooterMk2]

I got XP...it crashed last night...was able to recover all my files luckily. But AOL is being a bitch...7.0 wouldn't work at all so I had to d/l 8.0 and I'm still lucky if I can make it online without much trouble. Apparently AOL says that my modem is experiencing an error of some sorts.

[Philip Locke]

AOL has been fucking me over with unusual fervor these last few days. Prolly have to upgrade to 8.0 one of these days. Locke
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[Ari Rahikkala]

You know, you ought to have figured out by now that when it comes to ISPs, you get what you ask for... so... if you ask for AOL, AOL is what you get. Though they go mad they shall be sane,Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;Though lovers be lost love shall not;And death shall have no dominion.

[Gryphon the Pure]

for once I'm glad that our computer's OS hasn't been updated since... well... windows 98... *growls at windows 98 anyway* Raised by a family of Griffins in the forests of Llanowar, this young mage is rumored to be the sole male born of the Serra tribe.

[ScooterMk2]

AOL is fine when you don't use the built in IE, it would be even better if you didn't have to wait for your buddy list to popup in order to surf the net as well...either way, before my system crashed, I had zero problems with AOL connection wise...in fact, it's the only dial up service I had where I could always depend on getting a connection.

[Gryphon Avocatio]

AOL has been fucking me over since version 2.5. 8.0 isn't any better. Gryphon Avocatio Shirerothian Elder SAVE THE ELF! Save the Kiwi! See the Site "War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country."

[UEC]

Mindspring.. now Earthlink has ALWAYS been good to me... Always... I've never had problems with it... AOL just.. sucks.. I've never really heard of ANYONE who used AOL and was accually happy with it, without complaint. My ISP doens't make me DL ANYTHING! Just hands me a number to call with my modem... and a username and PW.. and I'm online..I mean, they give you software to set things up for you.. but you don't need it... all you need is the number to call.. your login... and a password... E. Metzler (UEC)Duke of Brookshire"Never use a BOO/\/\ist as a diplomat" -- GSClicky Clicky..., Tiss for your own good ya know.