[or-roots] the boy who cried wolf MAYBE

[Leslie Chapman]

Hi Marsha;

Just call me clueless too, the attachments disappeared the next day on my
system the same as . . . jeez my memory is pad, whoever the lady was that
corroborated my report and the next day reported they had disappeared from
her system. I am not entirely convinced yet that it wasn't a virus attack.
There is some kind of activity going on periodically on my system that my
son and I have been unable to identify. So far other than makin my driving
game slow down and have lag problems and crash once in a while it has not
been a problem. I hope Norton does a thorough analysis of the file I sent
them to figure out just what it WAS doing. It may be some kind of Microsoft
thing that got a little perverted for some reason, I notice a lot of my spam
seem to pull information from my hard drive to create subject lines and
return addresses on my computer when the email comes in. These attachments
may be somehow related to that. My guess is those of us who saw the
attachments have some kind of spy ware or adwar on our machines and that is
somehow connected along with what was said about stripping this stuff.
Somedays I miss good old DOS and simple programs I could actually understand
and if I wanted to write better. Now in the time it would take me to change
a dialogue box in one of these programs I can add a hundred ancestors to my
family file. guess where my priorties would lie.

I think the reason you were the one who they were attached to was because
you sent most of the email that came from the list that day and odds were
therefore they would be attached to yours. I had one other list letter with
an attachment and a third of my spam.

I just hope if I turn out to be right it is an inocuous virus that one of
these days will pop up and go "Neener! Neeener! you didn't find me" rather
than frying my system.

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 Marsha
Bradley-Luthy
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 1:25 PM
To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
Subject: Re: [or-roots] the boy who cried wolf MAYBE


I am clueless, just let me know what's going on when you
figure it out?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leslie Chapman" <khanjehgil at presys.com>
To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 8:00 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??
>
> _______________________________________________
> or-roots mailing list
> or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
> http://sosinet.sos.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/or-roots
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> or-roots mailing list
> or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
> http://sosinet.sos.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/or-roots

_______________________________________________
or-roots mailing list
or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
http://sosinet.sos.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/or-roots