Randall D. Hobbs wrote:
On Friday 22 October 2004 07:39 pm, Tom & Karen Pino wrote:I keep getting things "from" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am well aware that I did not send this and so assume that a lot of the spam I get is from a bogus adress.
A message which was sent to you by "Russ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has been identified by our virus filter as being contaminated with a virus. For your protection, the original message has been placed into the greymail quarantine area. To review the text only portion of the message, you may log into your greymail area and click on the message(s) in red.
I do not know that this has to do with Russell W. Behne, but I also get things that claim to come from me inspite of increased security at rangeweb and constant attention to security by my security guy (me) to virus and spyware crap (have never had a virus). The subject line is "Re: Hello".
I am surely not trying to cast any doubt on anyone here. I do think that this my be something that would need the attention of everyone on the list. This may be a breach of security at my ISP. I am not calling them this weekend. Have been sorting cattle for shipment all day and ship tomorow and Tuesday. Am not up to interigation.
Decided I did need to send this to you good folks, though.
By the way, got an e-mail from my son today from his Linux machine. He
will probably be inflicting himself on you directly. I he is happy with
his machine, mine will be heading that way very soon.
Hi Tom. I wouldn't seriously worry about it - lots of these viruses nowdays are spoofing their from addresses anyway, and trying to track down the real culprit isn't always easy. The best thing to do is to keep YOUR machines updated (if you're on Windows, install adequate virus protection and don't intentionally open any attachment that comes through, even if it shows to be someone you trust), and if you're having doubts about the integrity of your own machine, then go the extra mile to make sure it's not. If you're wondering about someone elses PC, well, let them take care of that - it's their problem (someone will let them know about it sooner or later, and it'll no doubt be someone who has a little more time on their hands).
Most of us on this list run strictly Linux, or at least a dual boot system where they hide out in Linux as often as they can, learning it as they go. I myself have been on nothing but Linux for the past 5 years or so (except for one of my systems at work which I'm required to run XP on, but hey, if it was easy then it wouldn't be work), and frankly, viruses don't even catch a second look from me. Give it some time - I'm sure you and your son will be the same way...
We bought this computer, our first, 6 years ago. I have files, saved through reformatting, from 3 months in to working with Win98. My experience prior to that was with just DOS machines. I realize that all Windaze dose is to work dos for you. A rather silly thing if you ask me.
That said, I must say, that I have not been tempted to "upgrade" to a newer Win version. I abelong to a Win list and have come to the conclusion that 98, maybe 98SE, are the pinacle of Win developement. I would like a newer computer that is a bit faster but 98 is doing the job. When we do it will be linux.
My son, poor guy, decided that he needed to "improve" and so went to 2000 and ME (I think that ME was to convince people that they needed XP). He wants nothing to do with Windoze what so ever. He still does have an ME machine but I got email from him off his linux machine (kmail). He did not get his system straightened out throught the information that I ineptly got from this list but he did find some other resourses on his computer (documentation) that has helped greatly that he found through some of the (undoubtedly grabled) info that I tried to give him over the phone. He has been rooting through your archives also. Seems to think that there is good stuff there.
I have had the guts to try Mandrake Move. Yes had to change my bios settings to boot from the CD. Was impressed with the speed working off a CD. I do have a 3 CD version (download I think of 9.2) and have a some what older machine that needs only a couple of things to work that may well get that loaded on to it in the next few months.
Back to the virus stuff. I just seent that in because I thought that it was information that someone may want. I have never had a virus because we do not have our adress all over the web and I had Norton system Works installed when we bought this thing and I keep it updated and actually run it. We also have Spybot Search and Destroy. Between that and not installing MS Outlook and using Netscape 7.1 with fairly high security settings, we seem to do all right. Our ISP seems to have a good filter too which is a fairly new development.
The biggest security risk we have is a 13 year old with the normal lack of descretion in where he goes on the web. I know that about half the sites he "visits" try to install spyware. So far they have not. All I can say is that if we can avoid this most people should be able to also.
A lower profile OS is very atractive. Tom
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