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Topic: Terrorist on Film Tech????
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Leo Enticknap
Film God
Posts: 7474
From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 09-24-2001 03:00 AM
I too got the e-greeting card and a message from an anonymous address, both last Thursday, which was detected by Norton Antivirus as being infected with W32/Magistr.b@MM virus. I have two e-mail addresses - one I use to subscribe to listservs (which is also the address on my entry in this board) and another which is purely personal and doesn't get given to anyone who might pass it into the hands of spam e-mailers.When I went to the e-greeting card page it tried to run a VBS script. I've blocked these on Internet Explorer and refused to let that one run, so if it did contain any nasty code I think I've avoided it. Both suspect e-mails went to my 'public' address. A lot of people have that address, but given that Greg received an identical set of messages this would seem to indicate that something funny is going on. Either that or 14 year-old Andrew Wotshisface is up to his old tricks again...
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Jerry Chase
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1068
From: Margate, FL, USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 09-24-2001 07:56 AM
I feel left out.  Nobody sends me virus emails. Since I read my email with Agent, which is text only, it wouldn't make any difference. I'm much more concerned with java and "improved" html and how they apparently doesn't stay in the sandbox. Unless I'm visiting a trusted site, I now surf with java off, or through anonymizer.Greg, sorry to hear you are having problems with emailed viruses. We might disagree strongly in our views, but I can't see myself or anyone else who is trying to suggest tolerant viewpoints doing something so intolerant and agressive. However, you do make a good point about watching out for personal terrorism, and I'll be on the lookout for evidence of it.
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Greg Mueller
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1687
From: Port Gamble, WA
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 09-24-2001 09:02 AM
"I watched that thread closely, and don't necessarily agree with all of you or others opinions. Does that make me a terrorist??"Only if you engage in terrorist activities. Disagreement is the norm, you are entitled to disagree and voice that dissension. Freedom of speech is one of the building blocks of our nations greatness.
as far as being paranoid, you're right I am. But, as I understand the MO of viruses and e-mail terrorists the idea is to make the virus look as though it came from someone you know. An anonymous email with attached virus would not seem to fit with that and might suggest deliberate intent. Also a greeting card sent specifically to someone with attached virus....well that's getting a bit personal. But you are right, it could be a coincidence
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Greg Mueller
Amateur Astronomer, Machinist, Filmnut http://www.muellersatomics.com/
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Bruce McGee
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1776
From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular.
Registered: Aug 1999
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posted 09-24-2001 10:02 AM
Joe: If you are writing a program to kill WebTV users, its too late. MSN-TV that now handles WebTV has beat you to it! I am working on a newer computer RIGHT NOW and will have it going and online soon. I take all these viruses seriously. This is another form of terrorism to me. These people that write these shit virus programs and send them out to others are equally as guilty as the ones that pass them on knowingly. Something that bothers me is that I, too have multiple email addresses. The one that I use only for family has been spammed several times in the last few days. There are only 5 people with this address, or, so I thought... The one that I use for all the newsgroups, etc, is loaded with spam.
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Evans A Criswell
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1579
From: Huntsville, AL, USA
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 09-24-2001 10:47 AM
I still read my email on a UNIX machine before I use Outlook to download it to a PC. When looking at the messages on the UNIX machine, I go ahead and delete any messages that are junk, and then only download the messages that have attachments (that are work-related or expected) after filtering them in this way.The "Mail" command on UNIX knows nothing about MIME attachments, so there is no way to get a virus or to have anything malicious happen if this type of message filtering is done, unless someone I work with sends a document as an attachment and doesn't know it's infected. I've gotten plenty of email virus messages, but they've gone straight to the bit-bucket before having a chance to get to my PC. ------------------
Evans A Criswell
Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Information Site
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