Most of the 1000+ computers where I work have been pretty much defunct on and off for a week. The whole thing appears to have gone tits up pretty much. At least I think that's the technical despcription anyways.
I don't understand random opening of email attatchments either, even I know better than that, any more than I understand why just about everyone where I work writes all their passwords down in a nice neat list (at the suggestions of the management) which they keep by the PC. :)
Hornet
· 6 years ago
yuk.
Carlo Zottmann
· 6 years ago
Yeah. I'm at 2000 now. I really wish I had SpamBayes here.
Carlo Zottmann
· 6 years ago
Passing 2300... but praise the lard, I was able to install the latest SpamBayes Outlook plugin. Working fine so far -- after all, I had enough positives to train it in no time. ;)
Terson
· 6 years ago
Sorry to hear that... the other sites should realize that the return address is meaningless. Essentially these remote virus walls and countermeasures are attacking you. I personally believe smtp could use an overhaul to provide enhanced accountability for messages sent and received. (It would also solve my problem where I'm not totally convinced all of the email I send out is received.)
Lupus
· 6 years ago
It's the whole thing about Simple Mail Transfer Protocol being just that - Simple. It was never intended to be used large scale, but people think that it will scale to the massive usage it sees today. People find something that works and is reliable (a rarity in today's industry), so they try to use it everywhere.
Luckily I rarely if ever receive mails from virus recipients - I think the majority of people I send emails to are smart enough to avoid getting caught.
Zhaneel
· 6 years ago
Blarg, sorry to hear that Gossip, glad you got some defense now.
Zhaneel
Spam
· 6 years ago
@6: A further problem is that stupid virus filters send notification back to the poor guy in the From: field, when From: is trivially forgeable. In fact, the only thing not trivially forgeable in an SMTP session is the IP address of the connected client.
The virus filters where I work send the message on to the recipient after cleaning; this prevents our servers from spamming the world with bounces to people who happen to know someone who is dumb enough to run this thing.
Susi
· 6 years ago
Nice headline to describe the prob ;-)
Carlo Zottmann
· 6 years ago
~3500 now. The pace has slowed down a bit, but I read a prediction that Monday will mark a new high since many people will come back from vacation and power up their work computers again, just to open every damn attachment they got while they were out. Brace for impact, my little office mail account.
On the bright side: SpamBayes is trained now, and works fine 99.5% of the time, so I'm prepared. Pissed, but prepared. ;)
Lupus
· 6 years ago
Turned on the radio for the first time in over a week and was irritated to hear reports of 'the worst Internet virus ever'. I hate misleading reporting like that. It makes it sound like it wasn't anyone's fault that it spreads. I could understand a hidden virus sneaking around and replicating all over the shop automatically being described like that, but an email attachment virus? That just pisses me off - I'd much rather it be reported as something a bit closer to the truth:
[Quote] Number of stupid Internet users reaches worst level ever [Quote]
I'm not asking for technical literacy amongst everyone who uses the Internet, I just want some basic competence from the news channels where technical issues are concerned. Don't they employ experts to filter/give opinions on the reports before they issue them?
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Most of the 1000+ computers where I work have been pretty much defunct on and off for a week. The whole thing appears to have gone tits up pretty much. At least I think that's the technical despcription anyways.
I don't understand random opening of email attatchments either, even I know better than that, any more than I understand why just about everyone where I work writes all their passwords down in a nice neat list (at the suggestions of the management) which they keep by the PC. :)
Luckily I rarely if ever receive mails from virus recipients - I think the majority of people I send emails to are smart enough to avoid getting caught.
Zhaneel
The virus filters where I work send the message on to the recipient after cleaning; this prevents our servers from spamming the world with bounces to people who happen to know someone who is dumb enough to run this thing.
On the bright side: SpamBayes is trained now, and works fine 99.5% of the time, so I'm prepared. Pissed, but prepared. ;)
I'm not asking for technical literacy amongst everyone who uses the Internet, I just want some basic competence from the news channels where technical issues are concerned. Don't they employ experts to filter/give opinions on the reports before they issue them?
Edited on Aug 22nd 2003, 13:44 by Lupus