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Message no. 1
From: Carsten Gehling carsten@**********.dk
Subject: Not the Crash of '29 but '00 :-)
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 16:49:08 +0200
Hehehe... This new "I love you" mail virus has, according to our
new-services, apparently spread and affected so many computers worldwide.

You might call it "The Crash of '00"? Shadowrun-history is repeating
itself... uhm, before it actually happens.

Peace and love...letter :-)

- Carsten
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Message no. 2
From: Allen Versfeld moe@*******.com
Subject: Not the Crash of '29 but '00 :-)
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 16:54:28 +0200
Carsten Gehling wrote:
>
> Hehehe... This new "I love you" mail virus has, according to our
> new-services, apparently spread and affected so many computers worldwide.

Is there some sort of filtering in place on this list? It's one of the
few that I'm on that haven't been infected yet :-)
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Allen Versfeld
moe@*******.com

"As a computer, I find your faith in technology to be quite amusing"
Message no. 3
From: Grey metis76@*****.com
Subject: Not the Crash of '29 but '00 :-)
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 08:14:44 -0700 (PDT)
> Hehehe... This new "I love you" mail virus has,
> according to our
> new-services, apparently spread and affected so many
> computers worldwide.
>
> You might call it "The Crash of '00"?
> Shadowrun-history is repeating
> itself... uhm, before it actually happens.
>
> Peace and love...letter :-)
>
> - Carsten

I work on the computer support staff for a fairly
large corporation in the US. To give you a hint we
have an annoying talking dog for a mascott. This damn
virus got into our system so fast we had to shutdown
the mail server to stop it from replicating itself.
Whoever made it did a damn good job..

*runs off to clean up the mess*

Grey

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Message no. 4
From: Strago strago@***.com
Subject: Not the Crash of '29 but '00 :-)
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 13:13:35 -0400
Allen Versfeld wrote:

> Carsten Gehling wrote:
> >
> > Hehehe... This new "I love you" mail virus has, according to our
> > new-services, apparently spread and affected so many computers worldwide.
>
> Is there some sort of filtering in place on this list? It's one of the
> few that I'm on that haven't been infected yet :-)
>

I don't think so. However, the rules set in place by the Admins (and enforced
by GridSec) are (I'm sure) one of the things responsible for keeping the list
from being infected. Of course, this is OT, but since I'm praising the Admins
and the GridSec, I'm sure they won't mind ;^).

> --
> Allen Versfeld
> moe@*******.com
>
> "As a computer, I find your faith in technology to be quite amusing"

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Message no. 5
From: dbuehrer@******.carl.org dbuehrer@******.carl.org
Subject: Not the Crash of '29 but '00 :-)
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 12:02:10 -0600
Strago wrote:
>Allen Versfeld wrote:
>
> > Carsten Gehling wrote:
> > >
> > > Hehehe... This new "I love you" mail virus has, according to our
> > > new-services, apparently spread and affected so many computers worldwide.
> >
> > Is there some sort of filtering in place on this list? It's one of the
> > few that I'm on that haven't been infected yet :-)
> >
>
>I don't think so. However, the rules set in place by the Admins (and enforced
>by GridSec) are (I'm sure) one of the things responsible for keeping the list
>from being infected. Of course, this is OT, but since I'm praising the Admins
>and the GridSec, I'm sure they won't mind ;^).

It's that "No Attachements" rule that's probably holding it off so far, and
the fact that few of us use Outlook.

FYI, my wife received the "I love you" program attached to an email from
someone she thought she trusted (it wasn't his fault). She innocently
opened the attachement.

The "I love you" program adds two triggers to your Windows registry, places
two programs in your windows/system directory, forwards itself to everyone
on your Outlook address book (if you don't use Outlook, it won't forward
itself), changes the homepage on IE to a page where you can innocently
download another virus program, and destroys all of your .jpg and .mp3
files (and some other files with .xxx's that I've never seen before).

I had to drive home, and it only took me 10 minutes to remove the files,
delete the corrupted files (all 744 of them), fix the registry, and reset
her IE homepage.

The .mp3s were backed up on my computer, but she lost all of her cute
dog/cat/etc pictures and wallpaper.

<sigh>

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Message no. 6
From: Sommers sommers@*****.umich.edu
Subject: Not the Crash of '29 but '00 :-)
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 14:21:32 -0400
At 02:02 PM 5/4/00, dbuehrer@******.carl.org wrote:
>It's that "No Attachements" rule that's probably holding it off so far,
>and the fact that few of us use Outlook.
>
>FYI, my wife received the "I love you" program attached to an email from
>someone she thought she trusted (it wasn't his fault). She innocently
>opened the attachement.
>
>The "I love you" program adds two triggers to your Windows registry,
>places two programs in your windows/system directory, forwards itself to
>everyone on your Outlook address book (if you don't use Outlook, it won't
>forward itself), changes the homepage on IE to a page where you can
>innocently download another virus program, and destroys all of your .jpg
>and .mp3 files (and some other files with .xxx's that I've never seen before).

Let's hear it for Bill and his policy of tying in every program possible
into Windows "for the good of the consumers." To clarify, the virus only
passes itself forward automatically if you use Outlook. It can still do all
of the damage to your files if you have IE5 installed. If you've installed
ANY MS program in the last 2 years, you have the necessary files installed,
whether you know it or not.

>I had to drive home, and it only took me 10 minutes to remove the files,
>delete the corrupted files (all 744 of them), fix the registry, and reset
>her IE homepage.
>
>The .mp3s were backed up on my computer, but she lost all of her cute
>dog/cat/etc pictures and wallpaper.

What the script does is rename the files and deletes them. If you go back
using Norton or some other such program, you might be able to recover them
back to their original state. We were able to get all of our files back on
our Novell network by deleting all of the .vbs files and then Salvaging the
real files.

Sommers
Aerospace engineers build weapon systems. Civil engineers build targets.
Message no. 7
From: Phil Smith phil_urbanhell@*******.com
Subject: Not the Crash of '29 but '00 :-)
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 18:43:20 GMT
>From: Sommers <sommers@*****.umich.edu>
>>It's that "No Attachements" rule that's probably holding it off so far,
>>and the fact that few of us use Outlook.
>>
>>FYI, my wife received the "I love you" program attached to an email from
>>someone she thought she trusted (it wasn't his fault). She innocently
>>opened the attachement.
>>
>>The "I love you" program adds two triggers to your Windows registry,
>>places two programs in your windows/system directory, forwards itself to
>>everyone on your Outlook address book (if you don't use Outlook, it won't
>>forward itself), changes the homepage on IE to a page where you can
>>innocently download another virus program, and destroys all of your .jpg
>>and .mp3 files (and some other files with .xxx's that I've never seen
>>before).
>
>Let's hear it for Bill and his policy of tying in every program possible
>into Windows "for the good of the consumers." To clarify, the virus only
>passes itself forward automatically if you use Outlook. It can still do all
>of the damage to your files if you have IE5 installed. If you've installed
>ANY MS program in the last 2 years, you have the necessary files installed,
>whether you know it or not.

Phew

Phil (one of these backwards Mac users you keep on reading about)
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Message no. 8
From: Bai Shen baishen@**********.com
Subject: Not the Crash of '29 but '00 :-)
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 14:49:07 -0400
> The "I love you" program adds two triggers to your Windows registry, places
> two programs in your windows/system directory, forwards itself to everyone
> on your Outlook address book (if you don't use Outlook, it won't forward
> itself), changes the homepage on IE to a page where you can innocently
> download another virus program, and destroys all of your .jpg and .mp3
> files (and some other files with .xxx's that I've never seen before).

When it hit my work today, it didn't delete any of the files. It simply
added copies of itself with the same name as the file already there.
Dunno if it's 'cause we run Linux, but the comp it was run on was
Windows.

Bai Shen
Message no. 9
From: Adam J adamj@*********.html.com
Subject: Not the Crash of '29 but '00 :-)
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 13:17:14 -0600
At 13:13 5/4/00 -0400, Strago wrote:

>I don't think so. However, the rules set in place by the Admins (and enforced
>by GridSec) are (I'm sure) one of the things responsible for keeping the list
>from being infected. Of course, this is OT, but since I'm praising the Admins
>and the GridSec, I'm sure they won't mind ;^).

Suckup ;)

I haven't looked at the specifics of this virus, but the mailing list
software only allows a certain number of addresses in the "To:" header,
which is why sometimes posts get held for "Implicit destination".

I imagine that this would likely stop most of these types of viruses from
hitting the list. However, we should probably take some more simple
precautions. I'll talk to Mark about it.

Oh look, I just received a copy of it. :P

Adam
Message no. 10
From: Strago strago@***.com
Subject: Not the Crash of '29 but '00 :-)
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 15:45:28 -0400
Sommers wrote:

> <SNIP>
> Let's hear it for Bill and his policy of tying in every program possible
> into Windows "for the good of the consumers." To clarify, the virus only
> passes itself forward automatically if you use Outlook. It can still do all
> of the damage to your files if you have IE5 installed. If you've installed
> ANY MS program in the last 2 years, you have the necessary files installed,
> whether you know it or not.

<SNIP>
Really? I manually uninstalled Outlook and IE5 when I installed Microsoft Office
97. Am I safe or not?
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Message no. 11
From: Sommers sommers@*****.umich.edu
Subject: Not the Crash of '29 but '00 :-)
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 16:07:23 -0400
At 03:45 PM 5/4/00, Strago wrote:
>Sommers wrote:
>
> > <SNIP>
> > Let's hear it for Bill and his policy of tying in every program possible
> > into Windows "for the good of the consumers." To clarify, the virus
only
> > passes itself forward automatically if you use Outlook. It can still do all
> > of the damage to your files if you have IE5 installed. If you've installed
> > ANY MS program in the last 2 years, you have the necessary files installed,
> > whether you know it or not.
>
><SNIP>
>Really? I manually uninstalled Outlook and IE5 when I installed Microsoft
>Office
>97. Am I safe or not?

For MS Office 97 you should be safe. For anything XXX 98, you're screwed.
MS Office 2000, MS Project 98, Visio 2000, any Service Pack for Win NT
after 3, Win98, all of them have components of IE embedded into the OS. One
of them is a Windows scripting tool that can be taken over by a VB program
just like the Love virus.

Just for the record, what it does is replace jpg, jpeg, mp3, mp2 and vbs
files with a copy of itself named the same thing plus .vbs on the end. If
you have mIRC it send an html page to your IRC channels. It sends copies of
itself to everyone in your Outlook address book.

It sets up explorer to go to a webpage the first time you open IE and
download another program called WIN_BUGSFIX.EXE that works as a Trojan to
steal passwords and email them to an account in the Philippines. It also
makes several different Registry changes that make it spread faster.

Basically it makes Melissa look like a joke. And the guy had the balls to
write a comment in his script that certain lines in the file should not be
deleted because they would cause the program to function improperly!

Sommers
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Message no. 12
From: Mark A Shieh SHODAN+@***.EDU
Subject: Not the Crash of '29 but '00 :-)
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 16:23:40 -0400 (EDT)
Sommers <sommers@*****.umich.edu> writes:
> Just for the record, what it does is replace jpg, jpeg, mp3, mp2 and vbs
> files with a copy of itself named the same thing plus .vbs on the end. If
> you have mIRC it send an html page to your IRC channels. It sends copies of
> itself to everyone in your Outlook address book.
>
> It sets up explorer to go to a webpage the first time you open IE and
> download another program called WIN_BUGSFIX.EXE that works as a Trojan to
> steal passwords and email them to an account in the Philippines. It also
> makes several different Registry changes that make it spread faster.
>
> Basically it makes Melissa look like a joke. And the guy had the balls to
> write a comment in his script that certain lines in the file should not be
> deleted because they would cause the program to function improperly!

Heh. Our information on it seems to be lacking. Here's what the
official.computing-news posting looks like at CMU. It's always
accurate, but not always thorough. It continues to boggle my mind
that Outlook has an auto-open attachment feature that defaults to
"enabled".


Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 15:36:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Lerchey <[snip]>
To: RBBs <restrictbb+official.computing-news@******.cmu.edu>
Subject: I LOVE YOU virus update
Cc:

As the "I LOVE YOU" virus spreads around the world, we're picking up
more details about what it does. Here is the latest...

Once the attachment is opened the virus spawns copies of itself to
everyone in the victim's Microsoft Outlook email address book. It also
infects any VBS (Visual Basic) files found on the recipient's drives.
It also then overwrites JPEG and local HTML files with its own code and
searches for mIRC chat files.

If found, the virus inserts a custom script into various mIRC chat files
in order to infect other mIRC users, and then sends itself to every contact
in the infected computer's address book.

LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU will also try to download an BUGFIX.EXE file from
four Internet sites, although what the downloaded file will then do
is not known at this time.


Any questions or comments should be sent to [snip]

John K. Lerchey
Computing Services
Carnegie Mellon University
Message no. 13
From: Deirdre M. Brooks xenya@********.com
Subject: Not the Crash of '29 but '00 :-)
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 13:33:06 -0700
Carsten Gehling wrote:
>
> Hehehe... This new "I love you" mail virus has, according to our
> new-services, apparently spread and affected so many computers worldwide.

What is this new "I love you" mail virus?

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Message no. 14
From: Edward Huyer arcanum@*****.com
Subject: Not the Crash of '29 but '00 :-)
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 16:43:09 -0400
> FYI, my wife received the "I love you" program attached to an email from
> someone she thought she trusted (it wasn't his fault). She innocently
> opened the attachement.
>
> The "I love you" program adds two triggers to your Windows registry,
places
> two programs in your windows/system directory, forwards itself to everyone
> on your Outlook address book (if you don't use Outlook, it won't forward
> itself), changes the homepage on IE to a page where you can innocently
> download another virus program, and destroys all of your .jpg and .mp3
> files (and some other files with .xxx's that I've never seen before).
>
> I had to drive home, and it only took me 10 minutes to remove the files,
> delete the corrupted files (all 744 of them), fix the registry, and reset
> her IE homepage.
>
> The .mp3s were backed up on my computer, but she lost all of her cute
> dog/cat/etc pictures and wallpaper.
>
> <sigh>

These things would be far less damaging if people would just not open
unsolicited attachments from anyone, unless they are .txt files...email the
person first and ask what the attachment is. If they then go "attachment,
what attachment?" you probably have one of these so called "viruses" on
your
hands. I not saying I haven't opened stuff without checking, but everyone
using email should be more careful. Note that strictly speaking, this is
not a virus. It is a combination Trojan horse/worm. It doesn't actually
infect other files, it only destroys existing files and propagates itself
when the original file or a copy is run.

Arcanum
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Message no. 15
From: Edward Huyer arcanum@*****.com
Subject: Not the Crash of '29 but '00 :-)
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 16:46:55 -0400
> Let's hear it for Bill and his policy of tying in every program possible
> into Windows "for the good of the consumers." To clarify, the virus only
> passes itself forward automatically if you use Outlook. It can still do
all
> of the damage to your files if you have IE5 installed. If you've installed
> ANY MS program in the last 2 years, you have the necessary files
installed,
> whether you know it or not.

This is one reason I really, really, want to see M$ broken up.

> What the script does is rename the files and deletes them. If you go back
> using Norton or some other such program, you might be able to recover them
> back to their original state. We were able to get all of our files back on
> our Novell network by deleting all of the .vbs files and then Salvaging
the
> real files.

Why exactly did Microsoft take the undelete command out of Windows? I
*liked* undelete. It comes in very handy when you accidentally empty the
recycle bin after putting something important in it (or if you just don't
use the recycle bin). It's not like it would be a command out in the open
to confuse computer novices. It would be buried in the command line.

Arcanum
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Message no. 16
From: Arclight arclight@*********.de
Subject: Not the Crash of '29 but '00 :-)
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 22:49:53 +0200
And finally, Deirdre M. Brooks expressed himself by writing:

<snip>

> What is this new "I love you" mail virus?

It's a Windows-based virus, infecting the system
and replicating itself by sending a identical message
to all people in your address book. It's said to have
infected about 300k servers in the US, and jammed the
computer network of the british parliament and Ford UK.
Now all that's missing is that it crashes harddrives,
and there we go :)

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Message no. 17
From: Grey metis76@*****.com
Subject: Not the Crash of '29 but '00 :-)
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 14:09:33 -0700 (PDT)
--- Strago <strago@***.com> wrote:
> <SNIP>
> Really? I manually uninstalled Outlook and IE5 when
> I installed Microsoft Office
> 97. Am I safe or not?
> --
> --Strago

Depends on what you mean by "safe" when dealing with
Microsoft Products.. ;)

Grey

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Message no. 18
From: Spike spike1@*******.co.uk
Subject: Not the Crash of '29 but '00 :-)
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 22:02:27 +0100 (BST)
> Phew
>
> Phil (one of these backwards Mac users you keep on reading about)

Ditto... (One of them smug linux users you keep hearing about).

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Message no. 19
From: Raveness Ravensbane ravenessravensbane@*****.com
Subject: Not the Crash of '29 but '00 :-)
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 09:47:04 -0700 (PDT)
--- Grey <metis76@*****.com> wrote:
> > Hehehe... This new "I love you" mail virus has,
> > according to our
> > new-services, apparently spread and affected so
> many
> > computers worldwide.
> >
> > You might call it "The Crash of '00"?
> > Shadowrun-history is repeating
> > itself... uhm, before it actually happens.
> >
> > Peace and love...letter :-)
> >
> > - Carsten
>
> I work on the computer support staff for a fairly
> large corporation in the US. To give you a hint we
> have an annoying talking dog for a mascott. This
> damn
> virus got into our system so fast we had to shutdown
> the mail server to stop it from replicating itself.
> Whoever made it did a damn good job..
>
> *runs off to clean up the mess*
>
> Grey

My fiance and I are both in the computer field... He's
a network admin and he's not been having a very good
day... I'm at a different company and thank God that
only one person got it and for some reason (she's
really good at this) she screwed it up and was asking
for help opening it when she saw the "don't open"
message that the vp sent out. So it didn't hit us, but
it did hit our parent company who is very large, has
25 mail servers and they had to take them all down
because they were all infected. I also heard that
K-mart's LAN (Local Area Network) is down until
tomorrow. This thing is nasty.

====~Raveness

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Message no. 20
From: Logan Graves logan1@********.net
Subject: Not the Crash of '29 but '00 :-)
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 16:53:15 -0400
In our last episode, "Deirdre M. Brooks" wrote:
>
> What is this new "I love you" mail virus?

Here, I'll send you a copy. <EG!>

Don't forget to double-click on the pretty little paperclip attachment! >:-)

--Fenris (actually, I haven't gotten it ...yet!)

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(>) ...and I would have made it too, except for
those nosey kids & their stupid dog...
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Message no. 21
From: Logan Graves logan1@********.net
Subject: Not the Crash of '29 but '00 :-)
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 16:55:35 -0400
In our last episode, Arclight wrote:
>
> And finally, Deirdre M. Brooks expressed himself by writing:
>

Um, "himself?"

I think your header-script needs an anatomy lesson, or three. ;-)

--Fenris
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1. Never tell everything you know.
(>) Lilith
Message no. 22
From: Carsten Gehling carsten@**********.dk
Subject: Not the Crash of '29 but '00 :-)
Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 08:16:52 +0200
Now don't carp me for this or throw me off the list, but:

If anyone has the virus-mail, I would very much like a copy. Simply for
analyzing purposes. Send it off-list please.

- Carsten
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Message no. 23
From: Damian Sharp zadoc@***.neu.edu
Subject: Not the Crash of '29 but '00 :-)
Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 02:24:47 -0400 (EDT)
All the talk of Mac & Linux people laughing (not that I'm not joining
in) has me thinking....

Are there 'less popularized' OS's in SR? Maybe someone runs 2060s version
of MacOS on thier deck and, though they have to write almost everything
themself, they can feel secure that when the Black IC tries to run on
thier sytem, it won't find needed files in the system? Any thoughts along
this line?

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Message no. 24
From: Allen Versfeld moe@*******.com
Subject: Not the Crash of '29 but '00 :-)
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 08:27:40 +0200
Edward Huyer wrote:
>
>
> Why exactly did Microsoft take the undelete command out of Windows? I
> *liked* undelete. It comes in very handy when you accidentally empty the

Ditto for unformat.

I don't normally work publically, but anybody wanna join me in a matrix
run to re-insert these missing items of code back into windows? ;-)

--
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moe@*******.com

"As a computer, I find your faith in technology to be quite amusing"
Message no. 25
From: Deirdre M. Brooks xenya@********.com
Subject: Not the Crash of '29 but '00 :-)
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 02:28:51 -0700
Logan Graves wrote:
>
> In our last episode, Arclight wrote:
> >
> > And finally, Deirdre M. Brooks expressed himself by writing:
> >
>
> Um, "himself?"
>
> I think your header-script needs an anatomy lesson, or three. ;-)

Gender migration via e-mail typos. Ha. :-)

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Message no. 26
From: Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject: Not the Crash of '29 but '00 :-)
Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 12:02:22 +0200
According to Edward Huyer, at 16:43 on 4 May 00, the word on the street
was...

> These things would be far less damaging if people would just not open
> unsolicited attachments from anyone, unless they are .txt files...

That's what this thing tries to look like -- from what I saw on TV, the
filename ends in ".TXT.vbs," which will probably get cut off to .TXT on
those Windows systems set up to hide the extensions of registered file
types (which is one option I always switch off, as I want to know a file's
whole name) so unattentative users will think "Oh, a text file, let's see
what it says" without thinking about the fact that extensions should not
be visible.

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Message no. 27
From: Edward Huyer arcanum@*****.com
Subject: Not the Crash of '29 but '00 :-)
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 12:53:34 -0400
> > These things would be far less damaging if people would just not open
> > unsolicited attachments from anyone, unless they are .txt files...
>
> That's what this thing tries to look like -- from what I saw on TV, the
> filename ends in ".TXT.vbs," which will probably get cut off to .TXT on
> those Windows systems set up to hide the extensions of registered file
> types (which is one option I always switch off, as I want to know a file's
> whole name) so unattentative users will think "Oh, a text file, let's see
> what it says" without thinking about the fact that extensions should not
> be visible.

Distinct possibility. Someone mind emailing this thing to me so I can
check?

Arcanum
Edward Huyer
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Message no. 28
From: Rand Ratinac docwagon101@*****.com
Subject: Not the Crash of '29 but '00 :-)
Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 18:38:21 -0700 (PDT)
> And finally, Deirdre M. Brooks expressed himself
> by writing:
>
> <snip>
>
> > What is this new "I love you" mail virus?
>
> It's a Windows-based virus, infecting the system
and replicating itself by sending a identical message
to all people in your address book. It's said to have
infected about 300k servers in the US, and jammed the
computer network of the british parliament and Ford
UK. Now all that's missing is that it crashes
harddrives, and there we go :)
> arclight

That's because it's a smart virus, Arclight. Only dumb
viruses kill their hosts. Stops them mutating and
replicating.

The question is...is there a new permutation just
waiting to get out (in 2029?) at which time it'll
actually become an AI???

====Doc'
(aka Mr. Freaky Big, Super-Dynamic Troll of Tomorrow, aka Doc'booner, aka Doc' Vader)

S.S. f. P.S.C. & D.J.

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