I have been getting alot of return mail, that I never even sent. I only e-mail family and a few friends. I if anyone on this site gets mail from oldshaver- it aint me! I mail no one from this site, Taxidermists, or any business related to Taxidermy. (have mailed Ken once or twice)
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I get a virus from you guys everyday. I know it is really none of you. But I do receive an e-mail everyday from someone I do not know. If it has an attachment do not open unless you know for sure who sent it.
Todd B
This surprises me as I'm on dial-up service now. I used to get it on broadband where the connection was always on and pirates were tapping into my computer. The first time I checked "Sent Mail" and found I'd managed to send out nearly 2000 emails telling people I could enhance their sizes, I called my broadband server to complain. His response was that I should turn my computer off. My response was that I could save $50 a month by turning him off instead. I did that and the mass mailings stopped. Now I see a couple "MAILER-DAMON" entries that I have no record of sending. Guess it's just someone stealing my address.
Aubrey/Oldshaver/straightshooter?/whateveryouarecallingyourselftoday,
I shouldn't even give you this info to protect you from this worm after the crappy email you sent me about a month ago, but I wanted to warn you and others about the Sasser worm. Hope you are protected with a firewall, otherwise you are at risk every time you post on the Internet.
Oh yeah, and since you try and blame me for everything other than your own stinkin' socks, I didn't create this thing and don't have anything to do with mass mailing worms that have obviously infected your PC.
PRESS RELEASE
For release May 2, 2004
New automatic Internet worm spreading at increasing pace
F-Secure issuing a global alert on the Sasser worm
F-Secure Corporation has been following the spread of the Sasser worm over
the weekend of May 1st. This new worm spreads to Windows PCs automatically,
even if nobody is using the PC at the time. After a machine gets infected,
the worm will start to spread to other computers. As a side effect, users
might see error messages and experience the computer rebooting repeatedly.
The number of affected PCs is already estimated to be in hundreds of
thousands and it will continue to rise as the working week starts. "This case
resembles the Blaster incident from August 2003 a lot", says Mikko Hypponen,
director of antivirus research at F-Secure. "Both were automatic worms using
a relatively new hole in Windows and causing frequent reboots." Together with
Slammer and Sobig.F, Blaster was one of the largest virus incidents of 2003
and even caused problems to infrastructure systems such as ATM networks and
train and air travel systems. "I hope administrators have improved security
since then. Otherwise we might see similar problems again", says Hypponen.
Two slightly different versions of the Sasser worm were discovered on May
1st. These worms spread through the LSASS vulnerability, which was discovered
in mid-April. The Microsoft patch to close the hole had been available for
download for 18 days before Sasser was found. The worm is targetting Windows
2000 and XP machines - the two most common operating systems. However, the
network traffic generated by the worm might slow down other systems as well,
including non-Windows systems.
Corporate networks should be protected against Sasser and its variants by the
corporate firewalls, separating internal networks from public networks.
"We're mostly worried about Monday morning, when hordes of laptop users
return to their workplaces with their machines, possibly carrying the virus
behind the firewall", comments Hypponen.
For home users, the advice is simple: if you're running Windows 2000 or XP
and have not updated your Windows during the last two weeks, do NOT go online
without a firewall.
If your computer is already infected, you need to patch the LS[expletive deleted] first,
then remove the worm - otherwise the worm could reinfect you right away.
F-Secure's and Microsoft's websites have detailed instructions on how to do
this.
F-Secure's Viruslab is monitoring the situation in their weblog:
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/
Technical description of the virus:
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/sasser.shtml
F-Secure has released a free tool to remove the Sasser.A and Sasser.B worms.
The tool is available for
download from the above link.
Microsoft has more information on the incident at:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/sasser.aspMailing list policy
One of the biggest mistakes I have made, is telling you who oldshaver was. The only other reason I ever used another name was because I didnt want to be harrassed by you. Mainly telling my place of employment all over this forum. You have done that a couple of times. Knowing you as long as I have, I really dont think you disagree with anything I post. I dont think this the place for airing out bad blood. My name is Aubrey Young- anyone give a crap about knowing more, e-mail me! Thanks for the info.
Enter "old shaver" into the archival search button and see how many "harassing" posts you have placed into the forum. I would not even respond to you if it was not for you putting people down in this forum.
Don't try and deny, it is all in written record. You have apologized at least twice on this forum for comments posted.
I am not airing out bad blood, I could write a book plus a few addendum chapters on the harassing behavior you have exhibited toward me. We were roommates 20 years ago. Our history goes way back. There is PLENTY of fodder for a fire.
I mentioned that I was trying to give helpful information. I have tried to do that since day one. You have a quirky attitude about what constitutes "help". You have accused me of many things, one thing I know for a fact that I am guilty of is this: You have changed your tune in your postings on this forum. You actually are sounding like a decent fellow now. I for one can appreciate that. It is how it should be.
Believe me when I say this: you never told me you were oldshaver, I figured it out on my own. I know you too well. Your postings are like a fingerprint. You can call yourself Katmandu for all I care, I would still be able to tell it was you just by the things you say, the particular words you misspell, the attitudes you ooze, and the cliches you use to deliver your message.
I think you are doing great turning over the new leaf. I hope it continues. My personal differences with you are not going to come out here. I just don't appreciate a few of the things that you and yours have done recently and I have learned how to deal with the problems.
Keep your distance and we will be fine, cross the line and "you did it to yourself" to quote an Allenism.