Re: debianppc list and sven virus

2003-12-03 Thread Harvey Ussery
I suppose you would only need to take these measures if you run Outlook or MS Messenger or Internet Explorer, n'est-ce pas? I don't run any of those, don't even have them on the system, use Moz for both browser & mail. So there's no way I can actually be infected, right? Just getting abused by

Re: debianppc list and sven virus

2003-12-03 Thread David Oakes
Mick Weiss wrote: I have no control over what is filtered in my mail so this is extremely annoying. I have unsubscribed from the list till I will start hosting my own e-mail. The e-mails are still coming regularly. Till then I will have to use another e-mail and just read the archives :-/ If any

Re: debianppc list and sven virus

2003-12-03 Thread Chris Tillman
As has been mentioned before, it is not necessarily, and probably is not, a list user. AAUI, Swen looks for publicly available web list archives and grabs email addresses from them. A Swen expert could conjecture on why it picks on powerpc and not other Debian lists. I bothered my ISP until they i

Re: debianppc list and sven virus

2003-12-02 Thread Mick Weiss
I have no control over what is filtered in my mail so this is extremely annoying. I have unsubscribed from the list till I will start hosting my own e-mail. The e-mails are still coming regularly. Till then I will have to use another e-mail and just read the archives :-/ If anyone finds the root o

Re: debianppc list and sven virus

2003-11-27 Thread Cuitlahuac Gomez Labougle
I do not know, but seems a common problem here. On Wednesday 26 November 2003 02:15, florian klinglmueller wrote: > hi, > > same problem with me, very annoying. any possibility this comes from a > linuxbox (maybe even me)? > > ffpx flo

Re: debianppc list and sven virus

2003-11-26 Thread Barry C . Hawkins
On Nov 21, 2003, at 1:20 PM, Mick Weiss wrote: I think that sombody's box on the debianppc mailing list has the Sven virus. After subscribing, I get 100+ e-mails that say that they are from Microsoft. I talked to some people at the local linux user group and thats what they told me. Anyone

Re: debianppc list and sven virus [off-topic]

2003-11-26 Thread Kiko Piris
On 26/11/2003 at 14:24, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > That's correct, but the mailing list's posts are available publicly on > Debian's > servers. Same thing for the BTS bug reports. If I go to bugs.debian.org, > every > bug report I have ever sent to the Debian Project is available in raw form,

Re: debianppc list and sven virus

2003-11-26 Thread Clive Menzies
On (26/11/03 13:15), Kiko Piris wrote: > On 26/11/2003 at 12:10, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (26/11/03 13:39), Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > > > Nice, but this really ought to be implemented on the mailing list host, > > > not by > > > each and every mailing list subscriber. > > > Good idea. A

Re: debianppc list and sven virus

2003-11-26 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Kiko Piris wrote: > On 26/11/2003 at 12:10, Clive Menzies wrote: > > > On (26/11/03 13:39), Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > > > Nice, but this really ought to be implemented on the mailing list host, > > > not by > > > each and every mailing list subscriber. > > > Good idea.

Re: debianppc list and sven virus

2003-11-26 Thread Kiko Piris
On 26/11/2003 at 12:10, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (26/11/03 13:39), Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > Nice, but this really ought to be implemented on the mailing list host, not > > by > > each and every mailing list subscriber. > Good idea. A number of solutions were discussed on debian-user but

Re: debianppc list and sven virus

2003-11-26 Thread Clive Menzies
On (26/11/03 13:39), Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (21/11/03 19:20), Mick Weiss wrote: > > > I think that sombody's box on the debianppc mailing list has the Sven > > > virus. > > > After subscribing, I get 100+ e-mails that say that they are from >

Re: debianppc list and sven virus

2003-11-26 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (21/11/03 19:20), Mick Weiss wrote: > > I think that sombody's box on the debianppc mailing list has the Sven virus. > > After subscribing, I get 100+ e-mails that say that they are from Microsoft. > > > > I talked to some people at the local linux u

Re: debianppc list and sven virus

2003-11-26 Thread Clive Menzies
On (21/11/03 19:20), Mick Weiss wrote: > I think that sombody's box on the debianppc mailing list has the Sven virus. > After subscribing, I get 100+ e-mails that say that they are from Microsoft. > > I talked to some people at the local linux user group and thats what they > told me. > > Anyone

Re: debianppc list and sven virus

2003-11-25 Thread Cuitlahuac Gomez Labougle
I am sayng just the same that you, but nobody hearme. If the problem is here, please solve it, Use antivir, Format your Harddisk or better begin to use linux really. My desperate solution was: I am using a POP account for lists Kmail filters on lists pickup mail from list to a selected folder I

debianppc list and sven virus

2003-11-25 Thread Mick Weiss
I think that sombody's box on the debianppc mailing list has the Sven virus. After subscribing, I get 100+ e-mails that say that they are from Microsoft. I talked to some people at the local linux user group and thats what they told me. Anyone else have this problem? If this is indeed the case,