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[lists] Re: [NMLUG] excuse me (virus)
My Dad surfs and plays PySol on a SuSE 9.0 box. He still does all of
his production reports and stuff on Mom's finicky WinXP box. He just
doesn't want to face the pain of tweaking 20 monster spreadsheets to
print right from OpenOffice.org.
My sister is running a SuSE 9.0 notebook for her checkbook... and PySol.
I've got that one configured with the removable drives disabled, and
no network card. I can't imaging living that way, but she uses a work
computer for all of her internet stuff.
There's a internet cafe-type-thing in Roswell running mostly SuSE 9.0
stations that I've set up. I think the last Pentium "Classic" (i586) is
running Red Hat 8, but we'll soon be replacing it with a faster machine,
and SuSE 9.x.
I got the parts today for a new box for my Church. It'll also be going
in with SuSE 9.0. Maybe I'll get a chance to get it put together this
week with the boys being at home with me on Spring Break.
Oh, yeah, my wife is running a SuSE 8.x box. I don't remember which
version exactly. She won't let me upgrade it anymore. The upgrades
from 7.1 to 7.3 to 8.0 to 8.1 broke so many things that she is "quite
happy with it the way it is!" I risk life and limb even suggesting an
upgrade. "NO!" Uptime on that box is 59 days. It gets rebooted every
time we have a major power outage (which isn't infrequent). We were
spending too much "quality time" together when Win98 was still installed
on that box. I miss those precious moments of her yelling "FIX IT!" in
my ear while Windows was running a disk-check operation every night.
Ah, the memories....
Linux is your friend. SuSE is great for easy installation, and walk
away. There may be "better distributions" out there, but for slapping
Linux on a newbie's computer and walking away, SuSE is among the best.
jody
Kelly Wilson wrote:
> Here Here. I'm actually setting up a SuSE 9.0 laptop for my parents so
> they can "surf and do email". They are notorious for catching viruses
> and worms on their Windows XP box at home, even with McAfee running on
> it. I'm pretty sure I can get them to switch to Linux, my dad is fed up
> with viruses and the like that windows "supports" with it's "helpful"
> embedded technologies. Anyone else done something similar?
>
>
>
> James Hamilton wrote:
>
>> Or better yet just stop using Windows ;-)
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 10:43:32AM -0700, Andrea Landaker wrote:
>>
>>> On Thursday 11 March 2004 09:44, jamesh@swcp.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> do not give up!
>>>
>>>
>>> Windows users on the list might to ensure that they are not infected
>>> with the Netsky.c virus, which is what this is. See
>>> http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description&virus_k=101048
>>> for details and removal instructions.
>>>
>>> While it is possible that the virus got these e-mail addresses from
>>> someone not on the list (who had merely browsed the list archives or
>>> something), it is much more likely to be someone on the mailing list.
>>>
>>> (Remember, of course, that both the From and the To are spoofed, so
>>> jamesh may or may not be the real perpetuator of the virus).
>>>
>>> --
>>> Andrea Landaker
>>> http://www.icecavern.net/~qirien/
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> NMLUG mailing list
>>> NMLUG@nmlug.org
>>> http://www.nmlug.org/mailman/listinfo/nmlug
>>
>>
>>
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