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Scuba Forum / General / August 2003I'm baaaaaaack...
Gang, During the move I have been really lucky/unlucky. When I plugged my 'puter back in last Friday, my hard drive died. I replaced the hard drive and the modem died. I replaced the modem and the graphics card died. Then my motherboard (ASUS A7V333) went the way of the dodo, wouldn't boot due to a permanent clocking error. Due to the huge influx of boxes into the tech guys, thanks to the blaster worm, they have a 5 to 7 day backlog. So, I introduced the "F" factor, and bought a new box (that only took 3 days to sort out). I missed the blaster worm (had all the patches on disk), but that and the other recently released virus' have wasted my accounts at hctc. I had over 1900 messages on the server, and as of 17:00 hours tonight, all were deleted from the server. Most were infected with virii, which used my website and the address' there to propagate, and loop back, filling my in box with infected messages. After my ISP guru and I spent a couple hours trying to figure out what to do, as the messages kept stacking up, we dumped everything, and re-loaded the website and all my isp info. So, long story made long, if you have tried to contact me since last Wednesday, the 13th, I will not get anything you sent. Since the move I have a new e-mail address: scottk at localaccess dot com If you need to get a hold of me, call my cell: 360-996-0109. If we dont answer, please leave a message. Scott welcome back. I kept wondering when you were going to just get a new machine. :) > Gang, > [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > > Scott > welcome back. I kept wondering when you were going to just get a new > machine. :) sh.t, the old one was only a year old, and was top-o-da-line then... The new box is quite a bit faster (a gig of RAM and a 2.4 gig AMD Athlon), but I dont want to buy another one a year from now. I would, however, like to get my hands on one of these little creeps that put these virii out. They have cost me I-dont-know-how-many hours over the years. I bet they wouldnt think it was so funny and fun if they had to pay a few of the bills they create (not to mention being used for a substitute soccer ball for a couple minutes). Scott >> welcome back. I kept wondering when you were going to just get a new >> machine. :) [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > >Scott At the new place I'm working, our IT department spends a *huge* amount of time and money fighting off viruses, and we just had a mandated system update for anything running Win2000, ME, NP (and probably a few others). Virus protection is also one of the non-negotiable pieces of software that has to be installed in every system that connects to the network (this is sometimes an issue with computer controlled lab equipment because the equipment uses up so many resources that the virus protection occasionally conflicts with system operation). Having said all that, a great many of the virus infections could be avoided simply by not using Outlook. Eudora is a much better mail client anyway, and doesn't suffer the same security holes that virus authors love to exploit in Outlook. The windows people will have to chime in on newsreaders, but I hear Forte Agent is pretty good (WinVN sucks - it claims to have killfiles, but they don't work). Alan Win2000, ME, NP Sorry - that should have been XP (shows how much I know (or care) about the windows world). > Having said all that, a great many of the virus infections could be > avoided simply by not using Outlook. Most virus infections could be avoided at companies by just taking away the PCs from managers and secretaries... These two groups of people will click on ANYTHING... At my last company, I proposed we email everyone in the company a message with a "I'm a Virus, Please Run Me.vbs" attachment... This VBS would then send back an email to a predetermined email address, logging who our "problem children" were... Of course, management (the same ones who would be implicated by these emails) decided that we shouldn't do it... I figured that at worst, we could at least force these people to install the Outlook patch that prevented them from running attachments in their email without first saving them to their HD... >>> welcome back. I kept wondering when you were going to just get a new >>> machine. :) [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > >Alan I can't seem to get the filters in Eudora to work properly. I ban an address and it still gets through. Any thoughts? Laser >>>> welcome back. I kept wondering when you were going to just get a new >>>> machine. :) [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > >Laser Not off the top of my head. I'm pretty proficient with Eudora for the Mac, but am a newbie when it comes to the windows version. Probably the fastest way to get help is to post your question to comp.mail.eudora.ms-windows. If you don't get a good answer there, e-mail me and I'll do some digging and hook you up with some Eudora people here. Alan Street Sr. Engineer IC Failure Analysis/Focused Ion Beam Services Qualcomm CDMA Technologies t_alans@qualcomm.com >>>Alan >> [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >Not off the top of my head.............. Oops. Obviously, that was supposed to go as a private e-mail. I would never put my title in a posting to rec.scuba, and I apologize for using the wrong signature. Like I said, WinVN is a *really* lousy piece of software. Alan alan@nonono_irsi.com (Alan Street) entertained us with: :Obviously, that was supposed to go as a private e-mail. I would never put my :title in a posting to rec.scuba, and I apologize for using the wrong :signature. Like I said, WinVN is a *really* lousy piece of software. A good craftsman never blames his tools. Dan Bracuk As Big Ben said to the Leaning Tower of Pisa, I've got the time if you've got the inclination. The Best of Rec.Scuba http://www.pathcom.com/~bracuk/RecScuba/ >alan@nonono_irsi.com (Alan Street) entertained us with: >:Obviously, that was supposed to go as a private e-mail. I would never put my >:title in a posting to rec.scuba, and I apologize for using the wrong >:signature. Like I said, WinVN is a *really* lousy piece of software. > >A good craftsman never blames his tools. I'm not sure WinVN deserves to be called a "tool." Overpriced freeware might be a better term. Laser <Laser.t12@mindspring.com> entertained us with: :I can't seem to get the filters in Eudora to work properly. I ban an :address and it still gets through. Any thoughts? Get an isp that lets you set filters at the server level. Dan Bracuk As Big Ben said to the Leaning Tower of Pisa, I've got the time if you've got the inclination. The Best of Rec.Scuba http://www.pathcom.com/~bracuk/RecScuba/ > Gang, > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Scott Any plans for what to do with the old machine? If not, I may be interested if the price is right. > Any plans for what to do with the old machine? If not, I may be interested > if the price is right. I am going to sort it out and keep it as a back-up. Scott > > Any plans for what to do with the old machine? If not, I may be > interested [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Scott Good plan. I hope you don't have to use it anytime soon... :-) > Gang, > During the move I have been really lucky/unlucky. <snip for space> Best of luck to you both in your new abode. :) |
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