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Grex > Helpers > #132: Grex System Problems - Spring 2004 |  |
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jor
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response 243 of 405:
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May 10 00:19 UTC 2004 |
There seems to be a rash of new email/spam/virus
crap, with bogus attachments and ruses like
imitation email error messages, et cetera.
'your email to IncreaseViagraSize.com
failed' . . wait I sent no such email.
I am thinking about making a list of the
symptoms.
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albaugh
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response 244 of 405:
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May 10 18:13 UTC 2004 |
Recent viruses are being sent spoofing the From: address. This makes it
more likely to spread, as the unsuspecting - and inexperienced! - recipient
will say "How nice, a message from Sindi, I'll just open her attachment"
expecting to see an image of flowers or something, and instead...
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keesan
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response 245 of 405:
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May 10 18:35 UTC 2004 |
I know about the Netsky virus spoofing the address and coming with a 40K
attachment, but this had no attachment and it was from me to me and also had
no message body. Odd.
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tod
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response 246 of 405:
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May 10 18:40 UTC 2004 |
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drew
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response 247 of 405:
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May 10 19:24 UTC 2004 |
I also have gotten mail from myself. One a normal spam, and the other devoid
of any text or attachment, saved in /a/d/r/drew/selfmail. I was going to
change my password but since others are also getting mail from themselves -
what the heck, I'm changing it anyway.
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scott
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response 248 of 405:
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May 10 19:28 UTC 2004 |
A really recent virus even has a couple photos of sexy women embedded, to be
used to entice the victim into opening the attachment.
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jor
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response 249 of 405:
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May 11 00:30 UTC 2004 |
I assume malicious attachments are targeting
Windows email programs. Are there now malicious
email attachments which can do damage
on Unix?
I don't want to open one to find out.
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jhudson
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response 250 of 405:
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May 11 14:40 UTC 2004 |
There are, but just opening one won't do any damage.
It is hard to get a virus when you have to:
(save file)
$ chmod +x file
$ ./file
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keesan
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response 251 of 405:
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May 11 15:03 UTC 2004 |
I also get 'antivirus warning report' type subjects from the grex MAILERDAEMON
which I presume is also a forget from address. Can't check, it already went
to /dev/null.
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gull
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response 252 of 405:
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May 11 15:10 UTC 2004 |
There was, for a while, a buffer overflow bug in Pine that would allow a
specially-crafted email message to execute arbitrary code. I don't know
of any worms that successfully exploited it, though.
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tod
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response 253 of 405:
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May 11 16:18 UTC 2004 |
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krj
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response 254 of 405:
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May 11 16:52 UTC 2004 |
resp:242, 245: Sindi: yeah, those are going around, null emails which
claim to be "From:" the address receiving them. I have a few and
have reports of others. What this means is that the Quality Assurance
department in Virusland is slacking off on the job; you have received
the output from an incompetently written virus.
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albaugh
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response 255 of 405:
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May 11 17:10 UTC 2004 |
While telnetting in late last night, with minimal activity over a span of ~3
hours, I lost my connection 3 or 4 times. Is that acceptable for a system
such as grex? If not, is this situation chronic? Correctable? Something
that would be in any way better under nextgrex?
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tod
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response 256 of 405:
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May 11 17:19 UTC 2004 |
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gull
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response 257 of 405:
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May 11 20:38 UTC 2004 |
Re resp:255: It looks like it's going to be chronic until someone on
staff has time to fix it.
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tod
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response 258 of 405:
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May 11 20:44 UTC 2004 |
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tod
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response 259 of 405:
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May 11 22:45 UTC 2004 |
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keesan
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response 260 of 405:
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May 12 03:40 UTC 2004 |
Is grex off the internet again?
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tod
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response 261 of 405:
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May 12 04:55 UTC 2004 |
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realugly
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response 262 of 405:
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May 12 05:03 UTC 2004 |
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bru
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response 263 of 405:
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May 12 13:03 UTC 2004 |
Macdonalds is humiliating? And what does this have to do with system problems
? I just got booted again.
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realugly
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response 264 of 405:
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May 12 13:09 UTC 2004 |
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soup
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response 265 of 405:
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May 12 14:34 UTC 2004 |
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realugly
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response 266 of 405:
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May 13 12:32 UTC 2004 |
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kip
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response 267 of 405:
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May 13 14:18 UTC 2004 |
Are you requesting that I repeat the whole issue here in this item?
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