[or-roots] the boy who cried wolf MAYBE

Ray Powell rayp6217 at comcast.net
Thu Jan 8 22:14:22 PST 2004


Les,
For what it is worth the attachments came to me as well. They were nothing
but a bunch of little graphics that were .gif files. I scanned the gifs and
there were no viruses in them. It has to be something else in your computer
that caused the problem.

Ray
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leslie Chapman" <khanjehgil at presys.com>
To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 10:00 PM
Subject: RE: [or-roots] the boy who cried wolf MAYBE


> Okay, that makes things a little clearer, the problem is between me and
> Salem, to wit some computer that "some" of the list stuff is passing
through
> is getting funny little things attached to them, why they are picking on
> Marsha I don't know, so far she is the only person from the list to get
> anything attached to her email. One letter from the Wheeler list had an
> attachment, and I was stripping the attachments from Marsha's letters and
> found one with the usual text file and 64 gifs, foolishly I opened a
couple
> of the gifs and my button bar got weird and my computer crashed. I
probably
> should have just left it off, but am going to gamble on norton for these
> last couple of messages. Mostly this one is an apology to Marsha for
> dragging her name into this since it is now obvious she had nothing to do
> with it in anyway.
>
> If anyone else got these weird attachments we might be able to isolate the
> source. I am in Reedsport and my provider is preferred systems, my phone
> connection was not affected by the recent blackout in Coos Bay so I assume
> my main link must be Reedsport to Lakeside (or maybe not, since they have
> servers here in Reedsport I believe) and then out to the valley probably
by
> way of highway 38? Guess I don't know enough about telephones to tell.
>
> Les C
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: or-roots-admin at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
> [mailto:or-roots-admin at sosinet.sos.state.or.us]On Behalf Of DanM
> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 9:15 PM
> To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
> Subject: Re: [or-roots] the boy who cried wolf MAYBE
>
>
> I have all this lists messages since I have been on the list, no one here
> has a virus.
> Nor have I seen any attachments on her address.
> I have a list called AntiVirusForum if any one wants to join it ?
> Happy Seasons
> Dan M
> http://www.wvi.com/~wb/Holiday.html
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Leslie Chapman" <khanjehgil at presys.com>
> To: "Oregon List" <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 9:02 PM
> Subject: [or-roots] the boy who cried wolf MAYBE
>
>
> > Okay, I downloaded the latest virus definitions, purged my system of all
> > temp files I didn't need so Norton could scan in 20 minutes instead of 2
> > hours and scanned for viruses;
> >
> > Norton said I didn't have any;
> >
> > Something weird is going on though and I still stand by my warning. From
> > Or-roots the attachments are only coming from Marsha but even only some
of
> > her letters??
>
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