[Rhodes22-list] Virus???

Wed Apr 14 21:17:07 EDT 2004

speaking of that, could you set you set up a PTR (reversedns) for IP address

Received: from kaynor.org (unknown [216.12.36.150]) .......

I am about to start rejecting email based on that, not to mention aol, rr and cox most likely are rejecting you.

MJM

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Kaynor" <mark at kaynor.org>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 9:52 AM
Subject: RE: [Rhodes22-list] Virus???

> Rik,
> 
> Linux rocks! I've been working w/ it off-and-on since kernel 0.82. The
> overwhelming majority of virii, Trojans, and worms are directed at Microsoft
> products. That combined with the fact that Microsoft's default security
> settings have historically been a joke makes for bad news for Windows users
> and good news for you. To be fair, however, MS does seem to be paying more
> attention to security lately w/ various federal agencies beginning to raise
> Cain (raze cane <g>?) about it.
> 
> R.e. spam - your ISP probably has a lot to do with it. That and avoiding
> posting your email address on web sites, etc. I run my own email server at
> home and get very little spam from there. I also have an account w/
> Earthlink - I get tons of spam at that email address. I am listed as owner
> or technical contact on many domains - the spammers "harvest" email
> addresses from wherever they can find them, including DNS records. I get
> tons of spam at work. Seems like I read recently that about 60% of all email
> is spam these days.
> 
> As an aside, I recently received an offer to buy over 300 million email
> addresses that were supposedly harvested from eBay - probably not true, but
> it could be - I don't have the time to check out every piece of spam that
> our spam filter catches. I took a quick look at this one, though - enough to
> see that the email originated from a domain run by a guy with an American
> sounding name in California, but owned by someone with a very Russian
> sounding name in Belarus.
> 
> And it's way more than just spam or email virii you have to be concerned
> with. What if Pay Pal or eBay had a customer info security leak? Personal
> information stored online is a big, big concern. Seems like almost every day
> some bank or insurance firm (or one of their outsourcing companies) has a
> security breach or a laptop or drives or backup tapes stolen that contain
> thousands or hundreds of thousands of customer records including SS numbers
> and account numbers.
> 
> If you're interested, an excellent resource for this sort of news is the
> SANS Privacy Bits newsletter - it comes out weekly and contains
> privacy-related news from sources world-wide -
> http://www.sans.org/newsletters/privacybits/. Sometimes the editorial
> content is a bit much, but the collection hard news is excellent.
> 
> The same can be said for my other two favorite resources for security
> issues, also from SANS -
> 
> NewsBites http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/ and
> 
> @Risk http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/
> 
> They can be a bit technical, but they'll certainly give you a realistic,
> non-alarmist view of what's happening out there in Internet security land.
> It can be a pretty scary place....
> 
> Mark
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
> [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org]On Behalf Of Rik Sandberg
> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 9:38 AM
> To: The Rhodes 22 mail list
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Virus???
> 
> 
> Thanks Julie and Michael,
> 
> I really don't worry too much about it for myself. I generally run K-Mail
> and
> Firefox in Xandros(linux) for most of my online stuff anymore. These don't
> seem as vunerable to these attacks, from what I have seen. I do wonder
> though, if it is possible for one of these to get into my email and spread
> this stuff around without me knowing it. Even though it probably can't do
> much to hurt my computer, I do worry that I may inadvertently be spreading
> stuff that would do harm to folks still using MS stuff.
> 
> I do have a firewall (2 actually hardware and softwear) and run f-protect.
> In
> almost a year of using Xandros(linux) I have yet to have found any kind of
> virus in it, other than a script I put in myself, to make sure the virus
> checker was working.
> 
> Those of you who are tired of all this crap, might consider giving Xandros a
> try. It's pretty "windows like" as far as using it goes. For me, the
> iinstall
> was very simple and quick. There are only a couple of things I need to turn
> on MS for at all, anymore. Though it is not free, @ $89 IIRC, for what you
> get, compared to MS prices, it is incedibly cheap.
> 
> Next question: How is it that some talk about getting 50 or a 100 spam
> messages a day, and I get hardly any???? Am I just that special? :-) :-) Or
> is this something to do with the difference in ISPs, maybe??? I haven't
> changed my email address in several years.
> 
> Rik
> 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 14 2004 07:37 am, Michael Meltzer wrote:
> > that is correct sir :-)
> >
> > ever since "I love you", the writew try to "pick" subject and content that
> > will tick you into clicking, part of the problem is ms it self, long ago
> > they should have stopped premitting this type of attachment to be
> > clickable, the problem is the setting stops all attachments so on one sets
> > it.
> >
> > MJM
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Rik Sandberg" <sanderico at earthlink.net>
> > To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 2:34 AM
> > Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Virus???
> >
> > > Michael,
> > >
> > > Lately, I've been getting a ton of what appear to be undeliverable
> > > returned e-mails.......that I didn't send and don't recognize the
> address
> > > on. They have some kind of attachment, which of course I haven't opened.
> > > Is this the newest scam to get us ignorant old farts to open a virus
> > > attachment???
> > >
> > > Keep your eyes open guys. Seems there's a new trick every day.
> > >
> > > Rik
> > >
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