Keptprivate virus alert?

[bigtraps]

I got an email saying it was from the Keptprivate team, it stated that I have a lot of viruses coming from my email addy and I should use there cleaner. It has an attachment for the cleaner. Is this BS or is it really from them? I am not opening it unless I hear otherwise. It seems like everyday there is a new virus out and the fuckers get smarter and smarter at it. Thanks.
Bigtraps

[ratmonkey]

Originally Posted by bigtraps

I got an email saying it was from the Keptprivate team, it stated that I have a lot of viruses coming from my email addy and I should use there cleaner. It has an attachment for the cleaner. Is this BS or is it really from them? I am not opening it unless I hear otherwise. It seems like everyday there is a new virus out and the fuckers get smarter and smarter at it. Thanks.
Bigtraps

check with norton/mcafee/trendmicro for an online scan to see if you have anything, then do the appropriate action if you find anything.

[Phreezer]

It's b.s. bro.. I kept looking at that email and thinking..this just doesn't seem right...so I updated my norton.. saved the emai attatchment as a ziped file (I did not open it) .. Then I scanned it with Norton and sure enough.. it's the virus that's going around...

This one was very clever.. but don't buy into it..DO NOT OPEN THE ATTATCHMENT..

[bigtraps]

Originally Posted by Phreezer

It's b.s. bro.. I kept looking at that email and thinking..this just doesn't seem right...so I updated my norton.. saved the emai attatchment as a ziped file (I did not open it) .. Then I scanned it with Norton and sure enough.. it's the virus that's going around...

This one was very clever.. but don't buy into it..DO NOT OPEN THE ATTATCHMENT..

I figured that Phreezer. I scan everyday and was wondering how I would have had so many viruses. I never open attachments either. Man those mutha fuckers are getting smart at this shit. They almost got me this time.
Bigtraps

[0u812]

bump for hogg...

[Bob Smith]

There is a notice directly on the KP login page regarding this issue.

[Hogg]

Originally Posted by 0u812

bump for hogg...

LOL...thanks. Here is a solution to the virus problem in general. Go to redhat.com and download the ISO files for redhat 9 or Fedora 1. Burn them onto CDs. Use RAWRITE.exe to create a boot disk, and then flush your microsoft machine and just run linux. Make yourself fight your way through the install, take the time to learn it, and then you will no longer be subject to these types of problems. Granted, linux/unix is vulnerable to various types of attacks and you have to patch your system, but you do not see these types of attacks in the linux world.

I had bought redhat back about 8 years ago when they just had X-windows. I played with it for a while, then went to MS NT3.5. a few years later, my department was charged with building a secure server environment for the corporate network. We used redhat 6 and it was getting better. I walked away from the project and a year later, the email server got punched and trin00'd. We went to redhat 6.1, patched, and she ran like a champ. They finally put the burden of network management on an outside firm so I turned my back on teh world of computing (I was tired of it and moved to a different department). Now, 4 years later, I have a new application that I need to develop and low and behold, after considering my development options, I decided that I would port the application to linux. I then went looking for my old friend redhat and found that Linux had progressed 30-fold since 1999/2000 and it is damn close to being as useful as microsoft (from a business standpoint) BUT....here is the big caveat....with the red hat update system, further refinement of RPMS, and new support for business productivity apps such as StarOffice from Sun and OpenOffice.org, Linux is just about ready to be considered as easy to use as microsoft. The config is a little bit harder but the loaders do 99% of the work for you....so what I am saying is, since a lot of you guys are young and your brains can learn rapidly, you should make the jump, switch now, and be out of the bondage of microsoft. All it takes is a desire to make the change. With perserverance, you can get through it and the rewards will be worth it.

4 years ago, I could see an argument for sticking with MS product since end users would have a much easier time with windows than unix....but now, I see Linux as having attained a level of refinement that is suitable for your average secretary ( as long as she doesnt have to load it or manage the system).

Anyway, thats the way out guys....its free, just takes a little effort, and this whole problem of trojans and logic bombs is essentially over.

[Bob Smith]

Since I know pretty much nothing other than Windows, how do software suites work with Linux? I mean, is there a non-MS version of Office (I know there is Corel), or can Linux machines run MS applications?

Didnt Red Hat have an IPO about 2 years ago?

[Hogg]

Originally Posted by Bob Smith

Since I know pretty much nothing other than Windows, how do software suites work with Linux? I mean, is there a non-MS version of Office (I know there is Corel), or can Linux machines run MS applications?

Didnt Red Hat have an IPO about 2 years ago?

Yeah, there are a couple. Sun makes StarOffice which is very similar to MSOffice. OpenOffice.Org has a complete suite of applications including an open source solution to Wolfram Research's Mathematica. Star Office is dirt cheap if you want to buy a distribution CD - under a hundred bucks. You might still be able to download it for free; StarOffice was originally released as a freeware product.

OpenOffice.Org is free and will remain that way. I'm not sure if you are familiar with the GNU project or any of the other public license-type efforts. There is a huge movement to build free software and it has grown immensely over the past 10 years.

Linux had an application called dosemu which allowed you to run Dos programs. I believe there is now a windows emulator as well though in truth, I would not expect it to be flawless.

Samba is the Linux equivalent of an SMB file share client/server architecture meaning that you can integrate linux and windows boxes in the same environment. There is a caveat; most linux apps cannot operate on a file that resides on an SMB file share unless the underlying file system is ext2/3. But, if you have a linux server pushing SMB shares out to windows machines, the linux apps can act on the files directly - because it is ext2/3 underneath. There is a project underway right now to build support for NTFS which will ultimately allow linux apps to act directly on traditional windows file servers. I'd expect that Microsoft will hedge against the linux onslaught by changing file systems - to what I dont know, probably something new with backwards support for FAT32 and NTFS or MS will kill their own product line. At that point, the linux community will begin trying to make sense of whatever new file system and file sharing protocol MS uses and the process will start over again

Printing integrates - you can print from a linux box to a windows shared printer and vice-versa.

[Hogg]

Not sure on the redhat IPO since I dont follow IPOs much; as a general rule, I do not buy a company's stock until their fundamentals are in line with my investment principles.

[Bob Smith]

Originally Posted by Hogg

Not sure on the redhat IPO since I dont follow IPOs much; as a general rule, I do not buy a company's stock until their fundamentals are in line with my investment principles.

Yeah, I know, but figured you would have at least known about it in passing.

Did you get your home system finished?

[Hogg]

Originally Posted by Bob Smith

Yeah, I know, but figured you would have at least known about it in passing.

Did you get your home system finished?

Yep, I'm complete.