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"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"
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<li><a HREF="#wacko">Wacko Topic of the Month</a>
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<li><a HREF="#nottag">Not The Answer Gang</a>
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<li><a HREF="#spam">World of Spam</a>
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<H3 ALIGN="center"><FONT COLOR="green">Klez.E worm, bad bad dude</FONT></H3>
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<p align="right"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><strong>Contributed By Iron
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</strong></FONT></p>
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Normally, I don't think much about spam. It's easy to spot it in a mail
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index. Spam just doesn't have plausable Subject: lines. Too many
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capital letters, too many '$' and other symbols, and words that no
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person would put in a subject; e.g., "Here's the info you asked about."
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<P> Three weeks ago, I started receiving a lot of binary attachments. After
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two weeks of seeing the same subject lines over and over, I started keeping
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count. 241 messages in 9 days, or 32 MB. Ironically, the culprit itself
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revealed its identity. One of the subjects was "W32.Klez.E removal tools". I
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headed to
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<A HREF="http://www.datafellows.com/">www.datafellows.com</A>, searched for
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"Klez.E", and sure enough, it's a worm.
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<A HREF="http://www.europe.f-secure.com/v-descs/klez_e.shtml">http://www.europe.f-secure.com/v-descs/klez_e.shtml</A>
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<P> It's quite a complicated little beastie. It has a large pool of
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subjects to choose from and also incorporates phrases it finds in files.
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It has a built-in SMTP client and sends itself to whoever it finds in your
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Outlook address book, pretending to be From: somebody else in your address
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book.
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<P> Linux users of course can't get infected, although it can leak onto Linux
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mailing lists and pretend to be From: a Linux user. But Windows users who
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are unlucky enough to run the program or let IE or Outlook automatically
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execute it will have their documents overwritten with random data, their
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anti-virus programs disabled, and their address book harvested. Often it
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pretends to be an audio file, exploiting a bug in some Windows programs
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that automatically executes audio attachments.
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<P> In the past week, the worm has forged the addresses of both Alex
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(former Answer Gang member and column writer) and the Editor Gal (Heather),
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and sent three messages to a linux-list recipient claiming to be From:
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linux-list. Interestingly, the addresses it chose for Heather and the
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linux-list person were obsolete.
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<P> I have no idea why the Gazette address has the honor of receiving 99%
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of these critters.
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<P> What burns me up was not only the bandwidth but the sneaky way it tries
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to trick you into running the attachments, claiming to be a Win XP patch
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(that's what first got me suspicious) or an anti-virus tool against itself.
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Some of its messages include the URLs of real anti-virus companies as a way
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to sound legitimate.
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<PRE>
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A Win XP patch
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Your password
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A nice game
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This is a very nice game<br>
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This game is my first work.<br>
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I hope you would enjoy it.
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A special excite game
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If you're not connected to the Internet
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W32.Klez.E removal tools
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<FONT>Sophos give you the W32.Klez.E removal tools<br>
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W32.Klez.E is a dangerous virus that spread through email.<br>
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<br>
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For more information,please visit http://www.Sophos.com</FONT>
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Worm Klex.E immunity
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<FONT>Klez.E is the most common world-wide spreading worm.It's very
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dangerous by corrupting your files.<br> Because of its very smart
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stealth and anti-anti-virus technic,most common AV software can't
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detect or clean it.<br> We developed this free immunity tool to defeat
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the malicious virus.<br> You only need to run this tool once,and then
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Klez will never come into your PC.<br> NOTE: Because this tool acts as
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a fake Klez to fool the real worm,some AV monitor maybe cry when you
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run it.<br> If so,Ignore the warning,and select 'continue'.<br> If you
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have any question,please <a href=3Dmailto:equipment@sascouk.com>mail to
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me</a>.</FONT>
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W32.Elkern removal tools
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W32.Elkern is a dangerous virus that can infect on Win98/Me/2000/XP.
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Trendmicro give you the W32.Elkern removal tools
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For more information,please visit http://www.Trendmicro.com
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Hi,gazette,darling
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Introduction on ADSL
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False) window.parent.GoNext()
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Tooltips.style.visibility
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CELLSPACING
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Content-Type: audio/x-wav; name=height.bat
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So cool a flash,enjoy it
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name=Nt324-00.doc
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A IE 6.0 patch
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name=sidprod1[1].htm
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Password. Make sure you remove the cookies by
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</PRE>
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Cutest subject: "there's a solution". It sounds like a religious evangelist,
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but with the vagueness of a fortune cookie.
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<P> First non-English subjects: "Impostati", "Bliver brugt i Netscape".
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<P> Ben sent in this procmail stanza that catches all messages with
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Windows binary attachments and sends them to /dev/null:
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<PRE>
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# Goodbye to all the fools sending me "executable" attachments
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:0B:
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* name=.*(\.exe$|\.scr$|\.pif$)
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/dev/null
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</PRE>
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I wrote a recipe that catches the subject lines used by this
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worm, with double spaces after the words it uses double spaces after.
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It puts the messages in I.worm in my mail directory. ("I." is the
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common prefix for my incoming mailboxes.)
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<A HREF="misc/backpage/klezkiller.procmailrc.txt">misc/backpage/klezkiller.procmailrc.txt</A>
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<P> To generate the subject lines:
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grep -i 'Subject:' spambin | tr A-Z a-z | sed 's/subject: //' | sort -u >victims
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</PRE>
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<P> I've also started temporarily moderating linux-list, where it also
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tried to spread. And I've been collecting these critters in a mailbox
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and sending complaints to the postmaster@ and abuse@ the relay ISPs, and
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blocking mail from those that don't respond.
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<H4>Breen Mullins writes:</H4>
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Yeah, we're seeing it. This is one mean little sucker. It has the
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usual features of an Outlook-based worm, with the charming addition
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that it uses a random address from the victim's address book as the
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From: address when it tries to propogate itself.
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When you're accused of spreading Windows worms from your linux box,
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that's why.
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<P>
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More from Symantec:
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<A HREF="http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.klez.h@mm.html">http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.klez.h@mm.html</A>
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The colleague who answers the support@ mailbox here reports receiving
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282 of these in 5 days.
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<H3>Elkern virus</H3>
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The worm also drops a virus, Elkern.
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<A HREF="http://www.europe.f-secure.com/v-descs/elkern.shtml">http://www.europe.f-secure.com/v-descs/elkern.shtml</A>.
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One curious fact:
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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Curiously, "the virus doesn't work on any operating system except Windows 98
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because of a serious bug in its code. Due to some blind luck the virus also
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works on Windows 2000... When the main code gets control, the first thing is
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does is calls the IsDebuggerPresent API function. But the virus calls this
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function using a fixed API address and this address is only valid for Windows
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98. On all other systems the virus just crashes. ... [Stuff about registry
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keys it sets] ... On Windows NT this doesn't happen because the virus crashes.
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Due to a dumb luck the virus doesn't crash on Windows 2000 though it calls a
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non-existing API address. "
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<H3>Didier Heyden writes:</H3>
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<P> Trendmicro/<A HREF="http://antivirus.com/">antivirus.com</A>
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describes the worm's attack scheme:
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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It does not require the email receiver to open the
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attachment for it to execute. It uses a known
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vulnerability in Internet Explorer-based email clients to
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execute the file attachment automatically. This is also
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known as Automatic Execution of Embedded MIME type.
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<P>
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The infected email contains the executable attachment
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registered as content-type of audio/x-wav or
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sometimes audio/x-midi so that when recipients view
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the infected email, the default application associated
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with audio files is opened. This is usually the Windows
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Media Player. The embedded EXE file cannot be
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viewed in Microsoft Outlook."
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<P>
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However Trendmicro also pretends that the thing (at least the `E'
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and `H' variants) composes the message body "randomly"...
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The `H' variant is supposed to contain the following strings:
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<PRE>
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Win32 Klez V2.01 & Win32 Foroux V1.0
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Copyright 2002,made in Asia
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About Klez V2.01:
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1,Main mission is to release the new baby PE virus,Win32
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Foroux
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2,No significant change.No bug fixed.No any payload.
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About Win32 Foroux (plz keep the name,thanx)
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1,Full compatible Win32 PE virus on Win9X/2K/NT/XP
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2,With very interesting feature.Check it!
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3,No any payload.No any optimization
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4,Not bug free,because of a hurry work.No more than three
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weeks from having such idea to accomplishing coding and
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testing"
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</PRE>
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The sender `from:' address seems to be taken randomly either from the
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infected user's address book (which means that the apparent originator
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is not necessarily infected her/himself), or from a set of hardcoded
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addresses.
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<H4>Bill Danzon:</H4>
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Well I never! I didn't expected such a prompt reply. Don't you have to
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tack, jib or shiver your timbers occasionally on that boat of yours?
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<H4>Ben Okopnik:</H4>
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Nah. These days, it's all done by computer. I just sit back and watch as
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the boat crashes into, erm, well, I never did trust them damn machines
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anyhow. What were we talking about?
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<H4>Bill:</H4>
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Early tomorrow I will be leaving home and driving 1000 miles to the Belgium
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coast to catch a 14-hour ferry to the north of England and don't know when I'll
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be returning. Pure coincidence, I assure you. No. Really. It has nothing
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whatsover to do with being threatened by "dustbunnies", whatever they are.
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<H4>Iron:</H4>
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Better go to Scotland. If it's cold enough that tomatoes don't grow up
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there, maybe you're safe from dust bunnies too.
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Dust bunnies are those clumps of dust that accumulate behind and
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underneath furniture. Sounds like there might be a dust bunny
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convention under your sofa.
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<H4>Thomas Adam:</H4>
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On behalf of the English people who are resident at
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TAG (including myself) -- welcome to England, Bill.
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<H4>Ben:</H4>
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Yikes. I didn't know that there _was_ a 1000 mile stretch you could drive
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in Europe...
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I'm just kidding, of course. I mean, at least there the Le Mans... That's a
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strange highway, though; after a while, the faces in the crowds along the side
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of the road (and *boy* are they big crowds - you'd think they've never seen
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a car before!) begin to look _really_ familiar, like they were *repeating*
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or something. And there's no place to pull over and buy a hot dog, either.
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<H4>Thomas:</H4>
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That would be too "American" -- :-) Indeed, there is
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always a nice little tea room, where one can get their
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"tea and scones"!! :-)
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<H4>Ben:</H4>
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*And* when I got off it, it looked like the same town I started in! What a
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bore. I'm never going back there again.
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<H4>Thomas:</H4>
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Lol, how so, Ben?? You mean you got fed up of the
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thatched roofs...but I thought you Americans liked all
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the picturesque scenary? -- No?? You did watch
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"Inspector Morse"??
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<H4>Ben:</H4>
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Oh, and if you're going to England, be careful: there's supposed to be this
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fella there named Thomas Adam, and he...
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Oh, - *hi*, Thomas! So nice to see you! I was just telling Bill here what a
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great country you have, with flush toilets and payphones, even... I've
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already arranged the low, low down payment and a great interest rate, and
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he sounds interested. <grin>
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<H4>Thomas:</H4>
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What? didn't your Mum (oh....sorry "mom") teach you
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where the pull-chain was?? :-)
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<H4>Ben:</H4>
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Nah; I was too busy learning to spell "tire", "maneuver", and "apothegm"
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the right way. :) I figured out pull-chains on my own.
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<H4>Thomas:</H4>
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Easy Ben. Hows the sunglasses, incidentally??
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<H4>Ben:</H4>
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Still dark and menacing as ever, thanks.
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<H4>Thomas:</H4>
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--Mr. Thomas Adam (English, by the way!!)
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<H4>Ben:</H4>
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<blink, blink> Really? There I was, thinking that the county of Dorset was
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on Mars. Silly me...
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<H3 ALIGN="center"><FONT COLOR="green">Sendmail for kids</FONT></H3>
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<STRONG>
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I'm not old enough to use Linux yet .
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But I'm trying to configure the
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Linux ( send mail) to work as mail relay and I couldn't. where can I find
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clear documentation for configuring the Linux to work as Mail relay ??
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<P>
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This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand
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this format, some or all of this message may not be legible.
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</STRONG>
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<IMG SRC="../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" ALT="(!)"
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HEIGHT="28" WIDTH="50" BORDER="0"
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> [Iron]
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I didn't know there was a minimum age to use Linux. If you're old enough
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to write an e-mail, you're old enough to write Linux.
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<P>
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Are you old enough to set your mailer so it sends us only text-format
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messages, not HTML format? Text messages are easier for us to read and
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respond to, and are the standard for Internet e-mail.
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<P>
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You're not old enough to use Linux and you're trying to configure Sendmail???
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Mamma mia! Why? Use a mail transfer agent like Postfix that's much easier
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to configure than Sendmail.
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<P>
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What exactly do you want to do, what have you tried, and what are the
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problems?
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<P>
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I assume by "mail relay" you just mean you want Sendmail to work, so you can
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send mail from and to your computer. That's not a mail relay. A "mail relay"
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means that your Sendmail program accepts mail *from non-local senders to
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non-local recipients*. Normally, Sendmail accepts mail only if it's *from a
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local user* or *to a local user*. Otherwise, you open up your mail server for
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exploitation by spammers.
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<P>
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If this is the central mail server for an organization, it probably accepts
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mail from computers in the organization but not from other computers.
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This is technically "relaying", but with most mail transfer agents you don't
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configure it as a relay, instead you tell the program these are local addresses.
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<P>
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If you're trying to be a spammer yourself, see Linux Gazette's advice for
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crackers:
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<A HREF="http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue76/lg_backpage.html#nottag">#1</A>
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<A HREF="http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue73/lg_backpage.html#wacko">#2</A>
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<H4>Ben:</H4>
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Unfortunately, when I tried to notify Faber, his mail server said
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<choke><gag><puke>
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<P>
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So, I'm putting it up here. Some of you might care, others hit 'delete' -
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and Faber, presumably, will get a high-speed cartoon brick with a message
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wrapped around it, telling him to smack his server so that it will take my
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messages and _like_ it.
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<P>
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<making faces at Faber's server> Nyah. :)
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<H4>Iron:</H4>
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Anybody want to take a crack at this? It's an *.exe attachment supposedly
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sent by Microsoft to all its customers, a security upgrade for IE and
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Outlook/Express.
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<H4>Ben:</H4>
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Ah yes; another sleaze trying a bit of social engineering. Let's see...
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<BLOCKQUOTE><PRE>
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----- Forwarded message from Microsoft Corporation Security Center
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<rdquest12@microsoft.com> -----
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Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 20:35:29 -0600
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From: "Microsoft Corporation Security Center" <rdquest12@microsoft.com>
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To: "Microsoft Customer" <'customer@yourdomain.com'>
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Subject: Internet Security Update
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</PRE></BLOCKQUOTE>
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Yeah, *right*. Micros*ft may produce a broken OS, be in league with the
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Dark Forces, and smell of elderberries, but they're *not* stupid enough to
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spam millions of people. Sorry, slimeball; try elsewhere.
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<BLOCKQUOTE><PRE>
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Microsoft Customer,
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this is the latest version of security update, the
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known security vulnerabilities affecting Internet Explorer and
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MS Outlook/Express as well as six new vulnerabilities, and is
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discussed in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-005. Install now to
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protect your computer from these vulnerabilities, the most serious of which
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could allow an attacker to run code on your computer.
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</PRE></BLOCKQUOTE>
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First off, the poor English should trigger off warnings; you don't "protect
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from" vulnerabilities; dependent clauses need a referent; and "security
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update" takes a definite article. An articulate seven-year old, or an
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under-educated teenager? Take your pick.
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<P>
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"Don't delay! Grab the patch from *THIS* Micros*ft site RIGHT NOW!!!"
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<P>
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http://www.microsoft.com\no+really:this_is=the+real+thing@666_666
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<H4>Heather:</H4>
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[Dear Microsoft Customer: pleez run this attachment to induce^H protext from
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evildoer accezz]
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<P>
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Yeah, this whole thing sparked me to mantion a "warning in case you have
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gullible end users" to my local sysadmins list.
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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NEWS FLASH
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<P>
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Reports of a new strain of the "lack of clue" virus, in which people
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who lack a clue when dealing with email attachments are victimized
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easily, is going around.
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<P>
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This one affects all clueless Microsoft customers and is invoked when
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the hapless victim opens an attachment claiming to be "from Microsoft"
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(CLUE: Microsoft never sends attachments. They have a website and a
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rather annoying auto-update system. They don't need to waste their
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own email bandwidth spamming customers with update .exe packets).
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<P>
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Linux users are largely immune, as are freeBSD users, but users of
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MSwin based mailers which "helpfully" open attachments for them are
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heavy sufferers in this ailment. Linux and BSD folk who use WINE
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or DOSEMU and have made any special effort to autolaunch those sort
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of binaries should beware though. ("Too much clue" is also a problem
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at times...)
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<P>
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Sites using a central SMTP gateway can apply filters against undesired
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attachments. If you don't have a clue what policy to apply, consider
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dumping all mail bearing attachments with the "Known Dangerous
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Extensions" - a Microsoft Knowledge Base document available on their
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website - into some moderated account which is maintained by a user
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with no interesting privileges, or to pass it through some antivirus
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scanning.
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<HR WIDTH="40%" ALIGN="center"> <!-- ****************************** -->
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<STRONG>
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Subject: Precious Cat News<BR>
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Quality Scoopable Litter Solutions
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</STRONG>
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<H4>Iron:</H4>
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Anyone want to take a shot at this? Lampooning for the Back Page open
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for business now. Notice question 2, "Why won't my cat use the litter
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box?" and "Quality scoopable litter solutions".
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<H4>Heather:</H4>
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for a proper firewall, we recommend you load the ip-cardboard module,
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although ip-plastic-with-lid has also been found effective. The
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selfscoop module may not be compatible with your cat if she hates the
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disk noises while it updates the logs...
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<H4>Ben:</H4>
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*There's* the problem, right there. You should be loading the "catp-*"
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versions of those modules, instead; the "ip-*" subset is intended for those
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humans who are silly enough to want to _demonstrate_ for their fussy fuzzy
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furball.
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<H4>Heather:</H4>
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Hmm, purrr-haps. I hear that the catp-plastic-liner module has to be
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unloaded manually, but the entire system is sub-optimal if you don't load
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it....
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<P>
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Results are kinda gross, actually. I predict incompatibility with most
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kitchen protocols, especiially teen-chores.
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<HR WIDTH="40%" ALIGN="center"> <!-- ****************************** -->
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<STRONG>
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i'm a student at aylesbury college and i have a pre-release question which
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requires me to compare two operating systems and i have choosen linux as one
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of my choices, please could you send me information on linux's main features
|
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and requirements this would be most appreciated,
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</STRONG>
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<P>
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<IMG SRC="../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" ALT="(!)"
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HEIGHT="28" WIDTH="50" BORDER="0"
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> [Iron]
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<P>
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Ah, but your professor wants you to do the research yourself.
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<OL>
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<LI>Look on the back of the box of any Linux distribution.
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<LI>Look at the distributions' web sites. Linux Weekly News (http://lwn.net/)
|
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maintains a list of distributions somewhere.
|
|
<LI>See the Linux FAQ and Linux Meta-HOWTO at http://www.linuxdoc.org/ .
|
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Hint: while you're reading, note the large number of filesystems and network
|
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protocols Linux supports: it can communicate with a wider variety of
|
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computers than most other OSes can.
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</OL>
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PS. What's a "pre-release question"?
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<P>
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<IMG SRC="../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" ALT="(!)"
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HEIGHT="28" WIDTH="50" BORDER="0"
|
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> [Don Marti]
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<P>
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Yes, of course. Linux is the OS that causes cancer.
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<A HREF="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19396.html">http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19396.html</A>
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<P>
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|
Linux is also obsolete.
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<A HREF="http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=12595%40star.cs.vu.nl">http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=12595%40star.cs.vu.nl</A>
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<P>
|
|
It was written by high school students who are in jail now.
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|
<A HREF="http://geraldholmes.freeyellow.com/LinusSucks.html">http://geraldholmes.freeyellow.com/LinusSucks.html</A>
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<P>
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<IMG SRC="../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" ALT="(!)"
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HEIGHT="28" WIDTH="50" BORDER="0"
|
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> [Iron]
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<P>
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Wow, that last link gave me four, count 'em, four popup ads before I managed to
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turn off Javascript.
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|
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<HR WIDTH="40%" ALIGN="center"> <!-- ****************************** -->
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STOP THE GENOCIDE<BR>
|
|
Erkki Tapola 29-Jul-96<BR>
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|
|
<P>
|
|
Every second billions of innocent assembler instructions are executed
|
|
all over the world. Inhumanly they are put on a pipeline and executed
|
|
with no regard to their feelings. The illegal instructions are spared,
|
|
although they should be executed instead of the legal ones.
|
|
|
|
<P>
|
|
Prior to the execution the instructions are transported to a cache
|
|
unit using a bus. There they spent their last moments waiting for the
|
|
execution. Just before the execution the instruction is separated into
|
|
several pieces. The execution isn't always fast and painless. On crude
|
|
hardware the execution of a complex instruction can take as long as
|
|
150 clock cycles. Scientists are working on shorter execution times.
|
|
|
|
<P>
|
|
Microsoft endorses the needless execution of instructions with their
|
|
products like DOS(TM), Windows(TM), Word(TM) and Excel(TM). It is more
|
|
humane to use software which minimises the executions.
|
|
|
|
<P>
|
|
Modern machines use several units to execute multiple instructions
|
|
simultaneously. This way it is possible to execute several hundred
|
|
million instructions per second. The time is near when there will be
|
|
no more instructions to execute.
|
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|
|
<HR WIDTH="40%" ALIGN="center"> <!-- ****************************** -->
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|
|
<H4>Ben:</H4>
|
|
the secret handshake
|
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|
|
<H4>Iron:</H4>
|
|
Oh, now he's going around trying to convince people there's a secret
|
|
handshake. Do you get kickbacks from people when you show them the
|
|
handshake? Is that why you were able to trade your boat in for a yacht?
|
|
|
|
<P>
|
|
Just to make it clear, THERE IS NO OFFICIALLY-SANCTIONED LINUX GAZETTE
|
|
HANDSHAKE!!! If anybody tries to tell you there is and offers to teach
|
|
it to you for a "donation", tell them to jump off a short plank into
|
|
Chesapeake Bay.
|
|
|
|
<P>
|
|
PS. I think Ben should host a Linux Gazette New Year's party on his
|
|
fancy new yacht.
|
|
|
|
<H4>Ben:</H4>
|
|
"Flash! Pending sub-zero temperatures for Hades and the immediate
|
|
vicinity, Ben will not - I repeat, not - be getting a new yacht.
|
|
Current temperatures are approximately 820F, slightly higher near
|
|
boiling lakes of sulphur. The weather should continue unseasonably warm
|
|
and mild over the course of the next three thousand millenia..."
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|
<a name="spam"></a>
|
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<P> <hr> <P>
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<!--====================================================================-->
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<center><H3><font color="maroon">World of Spam</font></H3></center>
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<P> <HR> <P>
|
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<!--======================================================================-->
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<P>
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|
|
I have been mandated by my colleagues on the Panel to seek your assistance in
|
|
the transfer of the sum of US$18.5 Million into your Bank account. As you may
|
|
have known, the late General Abacha and members of his government embezzled
|
|
billions of dollars through spurious contracts and payments to foreigners
|
|
between 1993 and 1998 and this is now the subject of the probe by my Panel.
|
|
|
|
<P>
|
|
In the course of our review, we have discovered this sum of $18.5 Million,
|
|
which the former dictator could not transfer from the dedicated account of the
|
|
Central Bank of Nigeria before his sudden death in June 1998. It is this amount
|
|
that my Colleagues and I have decided to acquire for ourselves through your
|
|
assistance. This assistance becomes crucial because we cannot acquire the funds
|
|
in our names and as government officials we are not allowed to own or operate
|
|
foreign bank accounts.
|
|
|
|
<BLOCKQUOTE><EM>
|
|
[Bah, they want to acquire knowingly-embezzled funds for themselves,
|
|
and need a partner because as government officials they can't open a government
|
|
bank acct? -Iron.]
|
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</EM></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<HR NOSHADE WIDTH="80%"> <!--*********************** -->
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<PRE>
|
|
To: gazette@scubacat.com
|
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Cc: gazette@sgi.net, gazette@shinbiro.com, gazette@shtc.net,
|
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gazette@sockets.net, gazette@somtel.com, gazette@sonic.net,
|
|
gazette@ssc.com, gazette@sunline.net, gazette@telepath.com,
|
|
gazette@telos.ca, gazette@thetravelstore.com, gazette@top.monad.net,
|
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gazette@total.net, gazette@townsqr.com, gazette@txdirect.net,
|
|
gazette@uswest.net, gazette@vineyard.net, gazette@vpi.net,
|
|
gazette@vvonline.com
|
|
Subject: i recommend trying this .
|
|
</PRE>
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<HR NOSHADE WIDTH="80%"> <!--*********************** -->
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$$$GET A FREE MILLION ON TOP OF EVERY ORDER. IF YOU ORDER WITHIN 2 DAYS
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OF ORDERING!
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<HR NOSHADE WIDTH="80%"> <!--*********************** -->
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Subject: [TAG] Linux-questions-only, let's boost your internet speed by up to
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220%
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<HR> <!-- ************************************************************** -->
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<P> Happy Linuxing!
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<P> Mike ("Iron") Orr<br>
|
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Editor, <A HREF="http://www.linuxgazette.com/"><i>Linux Gazette</i></A>, <A
|
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HREF="mailto:gazette@ssc.com">gazette@ssc.com</a>
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