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Subject: [linux-help] Re: Nor my system! Re: Virus found in your message Thank you!
From: Jeremy Johnstone <jsjohnst@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 07 Sep 2003 20:22:25 -0500
Reply-to: linux-help@xxxxxxxxx

I know how to fix them manually when I need to, but it would be nice to
have something which would do it automatically in Evo. I honestly
haven't look very much either though. It's on my list of things to look
up when I have time to spare.

Jeremy

On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 19:58, ironrose wrote:
> 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
> >
> >On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 17:54, ironrose wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>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:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Try switching to Ximian Evolution. You won't regret it!
> >>>
> >>>Jeremy
> >>>
> >>>On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 17:38, ironrose wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>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:
> >>>>
> >>>>   
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>>>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!
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>     
> >>>>>
> >>>>>          
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>A malicious mobile code (virus) has been detected in your mail.
> >>>>>>  
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>       
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>            
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>This could
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>     
> >>>>>
> >>>>>          
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>mean that your computer is infected.
> >>>>>>The mail you sent has not been delivered.
> >>>>>>The virus is known as Scenarios/Incoming/Accept mail:
> >>>>>>  
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>       
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>            
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>'Selected'.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>     
> >>>>>
> >>>>>          
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>Scenarios/Incoming/Incoming Virus: A virus has been detected:
> >>>>>>  
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>       
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>            
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>'W32/Sobig-F'.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>     
> >>>>>
> >>>>>          
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>Scenarios/Incoming/Virus file *.PIF found: A filename matching
> >>>>>>  
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>       
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>            
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>the file mask was detected: 'your_document.pif'.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>     
> >>>>>
> >>>>>          
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>This event has been logged and reported to our administrators.
> >>>>>>Contact your local staff for info about cleaning your system.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>  
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>       
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>            
> >>>>>>
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