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

[Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

your email problem may not be mozilla (exactly)

After upgrading from RH8 to RH9 mine was extremely slow in accessing and 
updating the contents of local folders.

After cleaning out my email several times and compacting the folders 
several times I put up with it for several months.  Then suddenly after 
repeating this exercise (and without deleting any of the OLD mail I had 
saved) it suddenly went back to working as it had prior to the upgrade.

I believe it was due to some corruption in the indexes mozilla uses to 
access the local mail folders, and it finally righted itself when the 
corrupt part was rewritten. Since then (a couple months ago) everything 
works as it used to and I am quite happy with it.


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
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>Jeremy Johnstone wrote:
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>>Try switching to Ximian Evolution. You won't regret it!
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>>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.
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>>>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
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>>>David E Carmichael wrote:
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>>>>To All:
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>>>>I use Norton AV with email scanning to catch any virus..
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>>>>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.
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>>>>After getting the below message I made sure that I had the latest
>>>>version of NortnAV and rescanned my system.
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>>>>Please make sure that you have your Antivirus up to date and that
>>>>your system is not infected!!
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>>>>----- 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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>>>>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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>>>>'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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