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  • Autoresponders And Challenge Response Make Virus Worse

    I was just thinkingthe same thing! To quote: “One thing that’s different, this time, though, is that along with all the usual bounces, I’m getting an annoying amount of “challenge-response” requests from people I didn’t email. In other words, the virus emails someone randomly and puts my email address as the “reply-to”. If the recipient…

  • Busy morning

    Just a little busy, have already fielded a number of questions about the SoBig worm and a number of emails that are still hitting our accounts, repaired a Windows NT installation in order to get a laptop booted again, and ran all of our billing for this month, all by 9:10AM. 😉 Angela seems to…

  • Email worm on the loose?

    Anyone else seeing just a ton of emails with attachments named either wicked_scr.scr, thank_you.pif, details.pif, application.pif or others today? I’ve seen these hit our work email accounts, my personal accounts, my wife’s work email, and others just in the last few hours. Our ISP seems to be stripping the attachments on our work accounts, and…

  • Which is worse?

    So which one would aggravate you more. The fact that the summer intern showed up one day without you knowing anything about it or having anything prepared, or the fact that she finished her internship Friday and no one bothered to tell you so you could disable her accounts and pick up the laptop she…

  • Email bombs?

    From Fred Langa’s newsletter: “And indeed, this person went ballistic. Had he read the confirmation note, he would have seen what was going on, and that he was NOT yet signed up for anything at all. If he had simply ignored or deleted the confirmation request (as the instructions in the note explain), that would…

  • Drag…

    Don’t you just hate Mondays that drag on forever? Those days when you don’t really have anything to do so the day just drags and drags. How about days where you do have a bunch of work to do and yet, inexplicably, the day drags anyway! I just looked up from a bunch of reports…