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Grobbins got a virus!
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Grobbins got a virus! Neener, neener, neener! Well, it is about time for a little public humiliation of the "no- clues" that click on an attachment. Unfortunately, Grobbins has helped to propagate a potentially harmful virus/worm because he: 1. Did not have antivirus software up-to-date, AND 2. Opened an unsafe attachment from a source he did not really recognize. Sorry, but if we are going to limit these virus/worm attacks, we are all going to have to be smarter. For a techie to fall for one of these is embarrassing. (Minor sympathy:) Some of these worms have been masquerading as email bounces. It is very tempting to open the attachment, to see which of your messages did not get delivered. CHECK THE TYPE! If it is not .eml, it is not email. OK, who else wants to be humiliated? -Peer-pressure panderer, Howard P.S. Grobbins probably doesn't even know he has started this thread. But if he has an excuse other than "sorry", we could probably all learn from it. (Hint, hint :) P.P.S. Who wants to bet the moderator will trash this thread in about 2 hours? I do! The only topical connection is that we are all supposedly a little more tech-savy than the median computer user. --- In TekScopes@..., grobbins@n... wrote:
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don falconer
I'm at the $2 windows saying it doesn't last 3..
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Regards, don f. KR4XH -----Original Message-----
From: Howard Matthews [mailto:hedgewarden@...] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 7:35 PM To: TekScopes@... Subject: [TekScopes] Re: Your document (Public Humiliation) Grobbins got a virus! Grobbins got a virus! Neener, neener, neener! Well, it is about time for a little public humiliation of the "no- clues" that click on an attachment. Unfortunately, Grobbins has helped to propagate a potentially harmful virus/worm because he: 1. Did not have antivirus software up-to-date, AND 2. Opened an unsafe attachment from a source he did not really recognize. Sorry, but if we are going to limit these virus/worm attacks, we are all going to have to be smarter. For a techie to fall for one of these is embarrassing. (Minor sympathy:) Some of these worms have been masquerading as email bounces. It is very tempting to open the attachment, to see which of your messages did not get delivered. CHECK THE TYPE! If it is not .eml, it is not email. OK, who else wants to be humiliated? -Peer-pressure panderer, Howard P.S. Grobbins probably doesn't even know he has started this thread. But if he has an excuse other than "sorry", we could probably all learn from it. (Hint, hint :) P.P.S. Who wants to bet the moderator will trash this thread in about 2 hours? I do! The only topical connection is that we are all supposedly a little more tech-savy than the median computer user. --- In TekScopes@..., grobbins@n... wrote: Please have a look at the attached file. _____ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: TekScopes-unsubscribe@... <mailto:TekScopes-unsubscribe@...?subject=Unsubscribe> * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of <> Service. |
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Greetings, Grobbins says not guilty! people always make the front
page when accused, and their later innocence buried in the folds of the last pages. --- In TekScopes@..., "Howard Matthews" > Grobbins got a virus! Neener, neener, neener! To answer your allegations Mr. Neener -Norton antivirus is updated automatically, often. -Presently no viruses have been found. -No attachements have been opened since Feb 5 ( from one of our members), and it was run thru Norton, it was clean. -I also did not post anything on the site since Feb 4, message 6693. I have noticed that my full email address showed up on the post supposedly sent by me, however, none of my "real posts" have this. Mr. Neener wrote; 1. Did not have antivirus software up-to-date, ANDFor a techie to fall for one of these is embarrassing.OK, I'm sorry...... that as a techie you fell for this, but you need not be embarrassed because this group is meant to help even those that have little understanding, and since when did this "Classic Tube Scopes" group require the computer savey of 11 year olds!! We all must try to ensure our measurements are made properly for any kind of precision. The Real grobbins@n... Daveolla P.S. The real Daveolla certainly would have started his post with a friendly "Greetings", that should have been another clue! P.S.S. hold the presses, front page, above the crease, this just in.............. --- In TekScopes@..., grobbins@n... wrote:Please have a look at the attached file. |
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Ashton Brown
Yes, I'd expect that by now - most Tekscopes readers are aware of the harvesting of e-mail addresses: often via the wide-OPEN access to LookOut and M$ Office -- holes even larger than those in the OS itself. The first target often is: one's address book. This has been going on only since.. version 3.x of this humongous 'application on-top-of DOS' - ergo
Pretty likely, someone with Mr. G's address in *their* book is most apt to be the real source of the nastily tainted message. (Note too that, Yahoo strips off attachments by default) But then, with Dumont grade s/ware in millions of places: who can resist poking it with a blunt object? daveolla wrote: Greetings, Grobbins says not guilty! people always make the front page when accused, and their later innocence buried in the folds of the last pages.-----------------< snip >------------------ |
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