On 8/25/08, Arun Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Funny perhaps to you :( I too thought my desktop was immune to such
> vulnerabilities. Yes, I am sure the .exe files were not there
> before inserting the pen drive.
>
Could you give the reasoning behind this surety that the .exe
files were
On Tuesday 26 Aug 2008, null null wrote:
> > The media was an USB pen drive. The colleague whom I was helping,
> > needed a PDF version of his OO v2.4 Impress presentation like
> > "right now" so I did not get a chance to look at the autorun.inf
> > file. I do not recall if there was a pop up di
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 12:10 AM, Arun Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 25 Aug 2008, Pranav Peshwe wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Aditya Laghate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > > Again traditional knowledge says, autorun.inf cannot get executed
> > > on unix, unless the +
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 14:42 +0530, Ranjit Bhonsle wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Pranav Peshwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
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> > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:58 AM, म.हा.सा.ग.र <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Anytime a client suspects the consultant's advice is to generate w
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Ranjit Bhonsle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Pranav Peshwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:58 AM, म.हा.सा.ग.र <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Anytime a client suspects the consultant's ad
On Monday 25 Aug 2008, Pranav Peshwe wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Aditya Laghate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> > Again traditional knowledge says, autorun.inf cannot get executed
> > on unix, unless the +x bit is set!!
> >
> >
> > and even if +x bit was set, how did a windoze batch fi
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Pranav Peshwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:58 AM, म.हा.सा.ग.र <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >wrote:
>
> >
> > Anytime a client suspects the consultant's advice is to generate work for
> > himself.. client knows which *machine* to re-boot.
> >
>
If
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:58 AM, म.हा.सा.ग.र <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
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> Anytime a client suspects the consultant's advice is to generate work for
> himself.. client knows which *machine* to re-boot.
>
Pardoning my ignorance, can you please state clearly ? I could not
comprehend anything.
.
>
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 10:58 +0530, म.हा.सा.ग.र wrote:
> On Monday 25 August 2008 10:49:07 Aditya Laghate wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 10:29 +0530, Arun Khan wrote:
> > > On Sunday 24 Aug 2008, Aditya Laghate wrote:
>
> On a serious note such people are almost acting like a windows
> consulta
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Aditya Laghate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Again traditional knowledge says, autorun.inf cannot get executed on
> unix, unless the +x bit is set!!
>
> and even if +x bit was set, how did a windoze batch file commands work
> in Linux?
>
> Did u get a chance to
On Monday 25 August 2008 10:49:07 Aditya Laghate wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 10:29 +0530, Arun Khan wrote:
> > On Sunday 24 Aug 2008, Aditya Laghate wrote:
> > > arr... stop using WINE or Windoze programs!!!
> >
> > Easier said than done.
> >
> > What is your alternative for businesses that have
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 10:35 +0530, Arun Khan wrote:
> On Sunday 24 Aug 2008, Aditya Laghate wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 20:51 +0530, Arun Khan wrote:
> > > On Sunday 24 Aug 2008, म.हा.सा.ग.र wrote:
>
> Funny perhaps to you :( I too thought my desktop was immune to such
> vulnerabilities.
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 10:29 +0530, Arun Khan wrote:
> On Sunday 24 Aug 2008, Aditya Laghate wrote:
> > arr... stop using WINE or Windoze programs!!!
>
> Easier said than done.
>
> What is your alternative for businesses that have years of data
> accumulated via their windows apps that do run un
On Sunday 24 Aug 2008, Aditya Laghate wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 20:51 +0530, Arun Khan wrote:
> > On Sunday 24 Aug 2008, म.हा.सा.ग.र wrote:
> > When I inserted his USB pen drive on my Ubuntu
> > 8.04.1 I noticed a lot of .exe files created on my hard disk.
> > Obviously, the pen drive was in
On Sunday 24 Aug 2008, Aditya Laghate wrote:
>
> arr... stop using WINE or Windoze programs!!!
Easier said than done.
What is your alternative for businesses that have years of data
accumulated via their windows apps that do run under wine and they are
unwilling to go through the headache of d
in my case WINE and it's capability to run prof win apps helped
convert some users (who don't care about what is under the hood, but
their work) to Linux... They eventually plan to move to Open Source
apps.
--
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Pune GNU/Linux U
Aditya Laghate wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 23:22 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Aditya Laghate wrote:
>
>>> I have never used WINE, but does "double-clicking" an windoze exe run?
>>> Or do you need to run 'wine '?
>> You can do either.
>>
>> Rahul
>>
>
>
> arr... stop using WINE or Windoze
On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 23:22 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Aditya Laghate wrote:
> >
> > I have never used WINE, but does "double-clicking" an windoze exe run?
> > Or do you need to run 'wine '?
>
> You can do either.
>
> Rahul
>
arr... stop using WINE or Windoze programs!!!
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Aditya Laghate wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 22:17 +0530, Pranav Peshwe wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Aditya Laghate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>
>> True, a MS PE won't run on the linux kernel natively, but with WINE, it
>> certainly can run. IIRC, with WINE installed, one can cli
On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 22:17 +0530, Pranav Peshwe wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Aditya Laghate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> True, a MS PE won't run on the linux kernel natively, but with WINE, it
> certainly can run. IIRC, with WINE installed, one can click-n-run an exe as
> if it
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Aditya Laghate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 20:51 +0530, Arun Khan wrote:
> > On Sunday 24 Aug 2008, म.हा.सा.ग.र wrote:
> > When I inserted his USB pen drive on my Ubuntu
> > 8.04.1 I noticed a lot of .exe files created on my hard disk.
> >
On Sunday 24 August 2008 22:03:27 म.हा.सा.ग.र wrote:
> Few months back I found that some virus or an html exploit had played a
> trick of it's own on my KMail folders such that many messages were showing
> all fields such as "Subject" and more as unknown. Opening those caused
> more problems.
Tha
On Sunday 24 August 2008 21:31:42 Aditya Laghate wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 20:51 +0530, Arun Khan wrote:
> > On Sunday 24 Aug 2008, म.हा.सा.ग.र wrote:
> > When I inserted his USB pen drive on my Ubuntu
> > 8.04.1 I noticed a lot of .exe files created on my hard disk.
> > Obviously, the pen d
On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 20:51 +0530, Arun Khan wrote:
> On Sunday 24 Aug 2008, म.हा.सा.ग.र wrote:
> When I inserted his USB pen drive on my Ubuntu
> 8.04.1 I noticed a lot of .exe files created on my hard disk.
> Obviously, the pen drive was infected but worse yet the virus was able
> to create
On Sunday 24 Aug 2008, म.हा.सा.ग.र wrote:
>
> At the same time I must admit that dangerously enough philosophical
> (logical for some) way everything happens on a Ubuntu desktop looks
> so much similar to Windows way of handling things! except the
> cosmetics! flames & discussions are welcome on
Observation over the last few months (maybe more than a year...)
whenever there is a problem loading Mandriva or something on a laptop or a
desktop... i give it a try with Ubuntu and the interesting thing is... that
really works like a charm, no hang ups.. no screen freezes..
While I am still i
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