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by **Joe Carneval** » Fri, 22 Nov 2002 23:32:10

I've been reading posts in this group and I've noticed that many people include virus attachments to their posts, why do you do that?

I hasn't affected my computer because I have an anti virus as most people do, but I find it amazing how poeple knowingly add viruses to cause problems. This should be unacceptable.

Joe

by **Richard Revi** » Fri, 22 Nov 2002 23:31:59

Joe Carnevali used a team of monkeys to generate this reply:

Quote:> I hasn't affected my computer because I have an anti virus as most people
> do, but I find it amazing how poeple knowingly add viruses to cause
> problems. This should be unacceptable.

It doesn't affect your computer because it isn't a virus. It is two lines of
text that the Outhouse Excess thinks is a file.

Get a RFC compliant newsreader and your problems will be over.

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by **paul cook** » Fri, 22 Nov 2002 23:38:07

comp.os.linux.advocacy to propose the following:

Quote:> I've been reading posts in this group and I've noticed that many people
> include virus attachments to their posts, why do you do that?

> I hasn't affected my computer because I have an anti virus as most
> people do, but I find it amazing how poeple knowingly add viruses to
> cause problems. This should be unacceptable.

> Joe

begin this_is_not_a_virus.vbs
this is not a virus
end

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by **COLA Moderato** » Fri, 22 Nov 2002 23:44:21

I've been reading posts in this group and I've noticed that many people
include virus attachments to their posts, why do you do that?

I hasn't affected my computer because I have an anti virus as most people
do, but I find it amazing how poeple knowingly add viruses to cause
problems. This should be unacceptable.

Joe

Mr. Joe Blow, read a few more posts and you will find out yourself who
actually stated this illegal practice of planting viruses on reply posts
with the sole purpose of infecting Windows user's computers. The practive
seems to have been silently accepted by the many frequent posters in this
Linux bastard community, and they now seem to have their little virus
infection game running on this NG. Now they all laugh and gigle about this
old joke when the get together to smoke pot, a very popular practice in the
Linux community of hiipies.

I would tell you who started this but I'd rather you find out for yourself.

COLA Moderator

by **Peter Karlsso** » Fri, 22 Nov 2002 23:49:08

begin virus.exe

On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:32:10 -0500,

> I've been reading posts in this group and I've noticed that many people
> include virus attachments to their posts, why do you do that?

Because it's fun. :-)

Anyway, it's not a virus, it's a bug in OE. BTW, please refrain from
posting in HTML. Thanks.

Regards,
Peter
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by **Johan Lindquis** » Fri, 22 Nov 2002 23:49:18

On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 at 22:32 GMT, gazing longingly at the horizon,

felt a deep, passionate desire to let the following be known:

Quote:> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

> ------=_NextPart_000_018E_01C2917B.8A4EA510
> Content-Type: text/plain;
> charset="iso-8859-1"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Please don't do that.

Quote:> I've been reading posts in this group and I've noticed that many
> people include virus attachments to their posts, why do you do
> that?

And since you're reading posts in this group, how come you missed the
one which actually explained the by now infamous and rather well known
begin bug in the first place?

Quote:> ------=_NextPart_000_018E_01C2917B.8A4EA510--

What next part?

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by **Bellyey** » Sat, 23 Nov 2002 02:00:52

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> I've been reading posts in this group and I've noticed that many people
> include virus attachments to their posts, why do you do that?

Because we can. Why do you post in HTML, same reason?

Quote:> I hasn't affected my computer because I have an anti virus as most
> people do, but I find it amazing how poeple knowingly add viruses to
> cause problems. This should be unacceptable.

BTW what makes you trust your AV software so much? The fact that you
have absolutely no idea what the code is doing, or simply the fact that
you paid for it so it must be good?

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by **Spiceru** » Sat, 23 Nov 2002 04:36:54

On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:32:10 +0000, Joe Carnevali revealed:

Quote:> I've been reading posts in this group and I've noticed that many people
> include virus attachments to their posts, why do you do that?

This is not a microsoft.public group. You've posted to the wrong one.
Seldom do I see an html post (yours being one) here.

Quote:> I hasn't affected my computer because I have an anti virus as most
> people do...

I've got news for you, There isn't a single anti virus program that will
catch this Outlook/Outlook Express exploit. Thanks to linux, I've been
able to look at the source and store the message on the machine, and try
the antivirus scanners on them...they don't catch this, nor do they catch
the message when it comes into O/OE. A message like this carrying a virus
will execute when OE opens the mail, like it or not. We've seen a lot of
these type of OE exploits at our company. What has saved our bacon is
that we run an attachment renamer on our Linux sendmail server so that
when OE/Outlook tries to open the mail, it doesn't know how.

by **Max Burk** » Sat, 23 Nov 2002 07:33:40

Joe Carnevali scribbled:

Quote:> I've been reading posts in this group and I've noticed that many
> people include virus attachments to their posts, why do you do that?

> I hasn't affected my computer because I have an anti virus as most
> people do, but I find it amazing how poeple knowingly add viruses to
> cause problems. This should be unacceptable.

Because they think it's a 'fun thing to do' Joe......
They think it will annoy us.....
But hey they're OSS/*nix users, what else can you expect....... ;-))

But try this if you *really* want to read what they're desperately
trying to hide from you.
Highlight the message

Right click
Properties
Details
Message source

Not that they're post ing anything worth reading mind you.

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pay is having to bow the knee to the weird organizational model and the
freaky, geeky social values that prop that up. If you're the user, you
have to hang out with Linux freaks.
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by **Simon Cook** » Sat, 23 Nov 2002 09:04:32

Quote:> Joe Carnevali used a team of monkeys to generate this reply:

>> I hasn't affected my computer because I have an anti virus as most
>> people do, but I find it amazing how poeple knowingly add viruses to
>> cause problems. This should be unacceptable.

> It doesn't affect your computer because it isn't a virus. It is two
> lines of text that the Outhouse Excess thinks is a file.

> Get a RFC compliant newsreader and your problems will be over.

There is no RFC regarding the automatic handling of uuencoded
attachments, either as a recommended practice, or as a not-recommended
practice.

Simon

by **Simon Cook** » Sat, 23 Nov 2002 09:05:51

Why should he refrain from posting in HTML? If it pisses you off, then
good. You're pissing other people off by playing this stupid game.

Simon

by **Simon Cook** » Sat, 23 Nov 2002 09:06:40

> On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 at 22:32 GMT, gazing longingly at the horizon,

> felt a deep, passionate desire to let the following be known:

>> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

>> ------=_NextPart_000_018E_01C2917B.8A4EA510
>> Content-Type: text/plain;
>> charset="iso-8859-1"
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

> Please don't do that.

Why shouldn't he?

If you want to play silly *s then everyone gets to join in.

Don't be such a hypocrit.

Simon

by **Peter K?hlman** » Sat, 23 Nov 2002 09:42:50

>> Joe Carnevali used a team of monkeys to generate this reply:

>>> I hasn't affected my computer because I have an anti virus as most
>>> people do, but I find it amazing how poeple knowingly add viruses to
>>> cause problems. This should be unacceptable.

>> It doesn't affect your computer because it isn't a virus. It is two
>> lines of text that the Outhouse Excess thinks is a file.

>> Get a RFC compliant newsreader and your problems will be over.

> There is no RFC regarding the automatic handling of uuencoded
> attachments, either as a recommended practice, or as a not-recommended
> practice.

That does not mean that OE will do it remotely correctly. It does not.
It is just the typical MS trash-ware. So, if you windroids disrupting the
group get annoyed because it makes reading the messages difficult, *good*

Peter
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by **Johan Lindquis** » Sat, 23 Nov 2002 09:49:12

On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 at 08:06 GMT, gazing longingly at the horizon,

felt a deep, passionate desire to let the following be known:

Quote:>>> ------=3D_NextPart_000_018E_01C2917B.8A4EA510
>>> Content-Type: text/plain;
>>> charset=3D"iso-8859-1"
>>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>>=20
>> Please don't do that.

> Why shouldn't he?

Well, for one thing, it took you 81 lines to post a five line article.
For another, is there a point to using MIME to encode plain text?

Quote:> If you want to play silly *s then everyone gets to join in.

I noticed you were complaining about people using a combination of
seven letters that confuses certain software. And I didn't notice you
using the word "please" at that time.

Quote:> Don't be such a hypocrit.

The irony of mr. "you're *ing doing it, so why can't I" telling me
that is not lost on me.

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by **Donn Mille** » Sat, 23 Nov 2002 09:57:51

> Why should he refrain from posting in HTML? If it pisses you off, then
> good. You're pissing other people off by playing this stupid game.

I can't believe you just asked that. Posting in html pisses a lot of
people off, and rightly so. Some newsreaders can't handle html. And
besides, it adds unneccessary bytes to each post, increasing bandwidth
usage, which most people posting in html waste in the first place.

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