[aclug-L] Re: Four Very Serious Warnings!!!

["The Bobster" <thebobster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Apparently, the sandman thing is a hoax...

http://www.icsa.net/services/consortia/anti-virus/sandman.shtml

I'm behind a reasonable firewall, and thought I'd monitor all ports to see
how this cat might be trying it - nothing.

The Bobster


----- Original Message -----
From: Clint A. Brubakken <cabrubak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <everyone@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; <echoshen69@xxxxxxxxxxx>;
<xhshen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 11:09 AM
Subject: [aclug-L] Re: Four Very Serious Warnings!!!


> On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Kong Wo wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >     Here are 4 serious warnings recently.
> >
> > ***  WARNING No. 1 ***
> > If you receive any CELCOM Screen Saver. Pls. do not install it!!!!!!
> > This screensaver is very cool. It shows a NOKIA handphone, with
> > time messages.  After it is activated, the PC cannot boot up at all.
> > It goes very slow.  It destroys your hard disk. The filename is
> > CELLSAVER.EXE
>
> does this run under wine?
>
> >
> > *** WARNING No. 2 ***
> > Beware! if someone named <SandMan> asks you to check
> > out his page. DO NOT! It is at  www.geocities.com/vienna/6318
> > This page hacks into your C:\drive. DO NOT GO THERE...
> > FORWARD THIS MAIL TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW.
>
> well as I don't have a c:\ drive I guess I'm safe.
>
>
> >
> > *** Warning No. 3 ***
> > SEND THIS TO EVERYONE IN YOUR CONTACT LIST! THIS IS NO JOKE,OK?
> > WARNING: If you get a E-mail titled : "Win A Holiday" DO NOT
> > open it.   Delete it immediately. Microsoft just announced yesterday.
> > It is a malicious virus that WILL ERASE YOUR HARD DRIVE. At
> > this time there is no remedy.  Forward this to everyone IMMEDIATELY!!
>
> As pine doesn't execute any script or programs it finds in email, (and it
> would have to do so as root). I think I'm pretty safe.
>
> Also why is Microsoft writting viruses? (Besides Windows 2000)
> >
> > *** Warning No. 4 ***
> > W A R N I N G ! ! ! ! ! ! ! If you receive an e-mail titled JOIN THE
> > CREW or PENPALS DO NOT open it!!!!! It will erase EVERYTHING
> > on your hard drive! PENPAL appears to be a friendly letter asking
> > you if you are interested in a penpal.....but by the time you read
> > this letter it is TOO late.  The Trojan horse virus will have already
> > infected the boot sector of your harddrive, destroying all the data
> > present. It is a self-replicating virus, and once the message is read
> > it will AUTOMATICALLY forward itself to anyone who's e-mail
> > address is present in your box!!!  This virus will destroy your hard
> > drive and holds the potential to DESTROY the hard drive of anyone
> > whose mail is in your box and whose mail is in their box and so
> > on and on!!!!!! So delete any message titled PENPAL or JOIN
> > THE CREW this virus can do major DAMAGE to worldwide networks!!!!
> >
> > PLEASE PASS THIS ALONG TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND PEOPLE IN YOUR MAILBOXES.
> >
> > AOL HAS SAID THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS VIRUS AND THERE IS NO REMEDY FOR
> > THIS YET.
> >
>
> Well as AOL doesn't run on linux, I don't think I need to worry.
>
> As you can tell by my answers, even if these warning were true, any one
> running linux would not be affected.
>
> Also AOL and Microsoft do not send out Virus Warnings. CERN and some of
> the virus scanner manufactures do (Symantec, McAffee, Norton, or whoever
> ones them this week)
>
> There are plenty of things to worry about, but the "Warnings" are not.
>
>
> --
> Clint Brubakken
> Developer, Computer Science Services Group, LLC
> Dictator-for-Life Air Capital Linux Users Group
> Wichita, KS
> cabrubak@xxxxxxx
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>
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