FWIW-not the first time in the past few weeks I've heard this baout Dell-the
failure, I mean...You are not alone, Terry!
Laura
Vita brevis est: rapide agite, vigore strigate!
----- Original Message -----
From: Banbury, Terrence <Terrence.Banbury@dnr.state.oh.us>
To: 'Barry Schwartz' <bschwart@pacbell.net>
Cc: <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 9:14 AM
Subject: RE: Virus warning (yeah I know, but this ones real)
>
> Thanks for the heads up, Barry. It is seldom that these warnings are
> credible, but yours sounds legit.
> I have my own virus. It's called "Buy a new PC from Dell and 3 months
Later
> Your Hard Drive Fails". Now, I'm not pissed (at them) that my data files
> are toast, but they are very uncooperative with getting me the correct
> drivers, etc. to get going again. It will be a week before they send me a
> disk to reload everything on the hd again. Lesson learned: backup
> EVERYTHING, often; in this age of poor quality and virus-geeks....
> Rant over.
>
> Terry Banbury
> Mk III I didn't know Lucas made hard drives?
>
> > ----------
> > From: Barry Schwartz[SMTP:bschwart@pacbell.net]
> > Reply To: Barry Schwartz
> > Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 10:12 AM
> > To: triumphs@autox.team.net
> > Cc: spitfires@autox.team.net
> > Subject: Virus warning (yeah I know, but this ones real)
> >
> >
> > I don't usually send this stuff out, but this one affected me
(indirectly)
> > This one is NOT a hoax. Many of the computers here at work were
affected
> > with this virus (not somebody that somebody knew that told me etc.) The
> > computer next to my cubical here at work had it's hard drive windows exe
> > files trashed among several others - It's a variation of the Trojan worm
> > with the filename IROC.EXE. it comes with a note saying something to
the
> > effect of here's a neat little Star Trek screen saver. if executed from
> > your e-mail program, It finds your mailing list(s) and sends itself out
to
> > (in this case the first 60 people on the global list that it found) and
I
> > was one of the recipients, but saved it to disk instead of opening it.
> > Others here were not so lucky. As with anything sent via E-MAIL do NOT
> > open any executable (*.exe) files unless you have VERIFIED that (A) it
> > came
> > from someone you trust (and that means e-mailing them back and asking if
> > they actually sent, and used it), or (B) saving it to a disk, then scan
it
> > first with a virus checking program. While it may not catch all of
them,
> > it sure beats having most or all your files destroyed. Most people here
> > at
> > work "assumed" that because it was sent by somebody they knew at work,
> > and,
> > that "it was already checked" that it was alright. It just goes to show
> > the importance of verifying things sent via e-mail that you aren't
> > entirely
> > sure about. At work they use NAV for checking this stuff, but
apparently
> > this one is too new and they didn't have it updated to scan for this
> > particular strain of this virus-
> > Makes you wonder abut these lowlife pond scum that have nothing better
to
> > do than destroy other peoples property, and think it's a big joke -
> > Oh well, just thought I'd pass the info along for what it's worth - if
it
> > saves somebody this grief then it's worth the bandwidth and slight
> > inconvenience of having to read this, at least in my opinion -
> > Geeze, the guy next to me gets a three day weekend, humm. . . maybe I
> > should have opened that file after all :-)
> >
> >
> > Barry Schwartz (San Diego) bschwart@pacbell.net
> >
> > 72 PI, V6 Spitfire (daily driver)
> > 70 GT6+ (when I don't drive the Spit)
> > 70 Spitfire (long term project)
> >
>
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