Aaarrgghhh Virus!

[Paddy]

Wooohooo mail server is back up!

[Corwin_Brute]

The trick with such worms is that most people hide known file type extensions on their systems, so the attach looks like iloveyou.txt, not txt.vbs.

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Corwin the Brute

[cjolley]

I've never understood why anyone would want to hide file types?
To me it just makes things confusing.
Not that that is a big change
chuck

[Jammrock]

Of course, there are 5 variants of the ILOVEYOU virus now!

The most dangerous one is being called the Mother Day Virus. ZDNet has the full scoop.

Basically you get an email to 'confirm your Mother's Day Diamond special,' and it tells you that they are charging $300+ to your credit card and you should open the recipt form immediately! Well, then you get nailed.

Persoanlly, I wouldn't order a Diamond from anyone I know, so I wouldn't open it anyway.

Jammrock

[The PIT]

I've got one that says I hate you but I get those all the time.

Only Kidding

[HedsSpaz]

Here here Holly, I agreee whole heartedly. Outlook is the biggest peice of junk MS has ever created. It's far worse than Windows itself.
<rant>
Have any of you ever tried to actually DO anything when you have Outlook running? I am forced to use it at work cause everyone else in the office does, but I don't leave it open cause it slows everything thing else to a halt. And thats true of every computer I've ever used it on. All the way up to PIII 600's w/128RAM. It is an incredible memory hog and it eats up easily 5-10% CPU on average. A mail program that uses that much power is beyond bloatware.
</rant>

Anyway, we got it at my office as well. the funny thing is, it's a software developement company. It never ceases to astound me how not tech savvy some of the engineers are.
Course, thats what I'm there for, to fix things when they do something stupid. Sigh, will I never get away from HelpDesk work?

Ok, I'm going to go relieve stress by beating on people in UT, or maybe thats getting beaten upon... oh well. either way works.

Ian

[HollyBerri]

All right, Corwin_Brute, I can accept that, I know the "hide extensions for known file types" is the Windows default setting, though I can't imagine why... ever tried to install a new program and couldn't find "setup.exe" because there was also "setup.ini" and "setup.dll" not to mention "setup.dl_" and the window defaults are "list view" and "hide extensions"? Yeah, that works...

But somebody tell me this, then... if the default is going to be to hide extensions... and we still use extensions in the first place...

<font size=5 font color="red">WHY CAN YOU LEGALLY USE A PERIOD IN THE FILENAME????</font>

You can't use a slash in either direction, nor an asterisk or colon... quotation marks, greater than/ less than signs, question marks, and vertical bars aren't even part of a Windows pathname (though most of them are part of command line statements, I do not know why Windows can't tell the difference between a file name and a command line statement so I am disallowed the use of those characters, fine)... but you can use a period and the filename XXXX.txt.vbs is recognized? Correctly? What the flipping heck is up with <u>that</u>??? How easy would it be to solve all such security problems by disallowing the use of the period for anything other than to precede a 3-letter extension??? Since we must have them, apparently.

Gaaah! Makes you long for DOS, which wouldn't take such foolishness from users... "Bad command or file name", those were the days...

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Holly

[FaRaN]

I love You ALL!!
wait... let me send you a loveletter...