[linux-help] Re: Nor my system! Re: Virus found in your message Thank you!

[ironrose <ironrose@xxxxxxx>]

I have many stored emails in folders and subfolders that I need to keep. 
 I will check out the conversion.  Good luck with the TNEF encoded (M$ 
mime encapsulated) attachments?  I get most of my emails from people who 
use M$ and some are an attachment of an attachment.....sometimes 12 or 
14 layers deep.  I don't know why they forward attachments that way.  ~Anne

Jeremy Johnstone wrote:

>I moved all of my from Kmail to Evolution without to much trouble, so
>hopefully the same will hold true for Mozilla. I had about 70,000 emails
>which I moved over and still have in Evo, so I think 120 won't phase it
>a bit. I have folder's with over 10k emails in them and it is still
>extremely snappy and searches are near instantaneous. Now if only it
>handled TNEF encoded attachments I would be in heaven.
>
>Jeremy
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>On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 17:54, ironrose wrote:
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>>I will check into that and I will see if I can get all of my current 
>>emails that I am saving over to Evolution.  Thanks.  ~Anne
>>
>>Jeremy Johnstone wrote:
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>>>Try switching to Ximian Evolution. You won't regret it!
>>>
>>>Jeremy
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>>>On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 17:38, ironrose wrote:
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>>>>I don't think that the SoBig virus has any effect on linux systems.  For 
>>>>those of us who use linux to get our email, we should be safe.  It adds 
>>>>some extra motivation to switch to linux.  Good luck with windoze and I 
>>>>am very glad that I have alternate computers with an alternate OS that I 
>>>>can surf the internet with.
>>>>
>>>>My mozilla is crashing frequently since I upgraded to RedHat 9 and it 
>>>>may be because I have ~120 unread messages.  I keep trying to read the 
>>>>messages and it is crashing just about everytime I try to delete some 
>>>>emails.  I have to delete the emails one at a time and after about 5 
>>>>that I delete, moxilla crashes again.  Everytime it crashes, then I get 
>>>>another duplicate of the emails and is compounding the problem.  Mozilla 
>>>>apparently doesn't like being constipated with emails.  No OS is immune 
>>>>to problems, but at least mine is an email problem and not crashing the 
>>>>OS.  ~Anne
>>>>
>>>>David E Carmichael wrote:
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>>>>>To All:
>>>>>
>>>>>I use Norton AV with email scanning to catch any virus..
>>>>>
>>>>>If you know how the "SOBIG" viruses work.. they randomly choose a
>>>>>name from the users address book and then sends out emails as if
>>>>>that user was the sender.
>>>>>
>>>>>After getting the below message I made sure that I had the latest
>>>>>version of NortnAV and rescanned my system.
>>>>>
>>>>>Please make sure that you have your Antivirus up to date and that
>>>>>your system is not infected!!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>>>>From: <firewallteam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>To: <dec2955@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 3:20 PM
>>>>>Subject: Virus found in your message Thank you!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>>>A malicious mobile code (virus) has been detected in your mail.
>>>>>>  
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>>>>>>            
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>>>>>This could
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>>>>>>mean that your computer is infected.
>>>>>>The mail you sent has not been delivered.
>>>>>>The virus is known as Scenarios/Incoming/Accept mail:
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>>>>>'Selected'.
>>>>>
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>>>>>>Scenarios/Incoming/Incoming Virus: A virus has been detected:
>>>>>>  
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>>>>>>       
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>>>>>'W32/Sobig-F'.
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>>>>>>Scenarios/Incoming/Virus file *.PIF found: A filename matching
>>>>>>  
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>>>>>the file mask was detected: 'your_document.pif'.
>>>>>
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>>>>>>This event has been logged and reported to our administrators.
>>>>>>Contact your local staff for info about cleaning your system.
>>>>>>
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