DON'T OPEN!!: North American GBC Exec Comm on Y2K

[Guest guest]

At 10:52 -0500 12/17/1999, COM: Hare Krsna dasi (Brunswick, Maine - USA) wrote:

>[Text 2865599 from COM]

>

>I just received an e-mail -- supposedly from "Noma Petroff" entitled

>North American GBC Executive Committee on Y2K"

>

>This e-mail is **not** from me. It contains an attachment which invites

>the reader to download funny messages. I suspect that it is some kind

>of virus.

 

 

Apparently this is an even bigger problem. Someone else got a letter

with this attachment too (different header) in a text that seemed

like it was from COM *and* from himself. I have forwarded it to the

COM sysop.

 

Please don't open any documents that come from yourselves or that

have an attachment called "party.exe" . There is also a URL to a

website for funny messages.

 

I will check with out with our network manager at work today. If

anyone else has any info, please share it with the rest of us.

 

Ys,

Madhusudani dasi

[Guest guest]

It probably means you have a virus already on your computer that is sending

messages. Beter update your virus protection.

 

"COM: Hare Krsna dasi (Brunswick, Maine - USA)" wrote:

 

> [Text 2865599 from COM]

>

> I just received an e-mail -- supposedly from "Noma Petroff" entitled

> North American GBC Executive Committee on Y2K"

>

> This e-mail is **not** from me. It contains an attachment which invites

> the reader to download funny messages. I suspect that it is some kind

> of virus.

>

> Do not open any attachements over the Y2K transition period -- even if

> you know the person -- unless you are positive they are legitimate.

> Many will contain viruses.

>

> Any note which claims to be North American GBC Executive Committee on

> Y2K is **not** from me.

>

> your servant,

>

> Hare Krsna dasi

[Guest guest]

I just went to the web site mentioned in this text. It's a place to

create holiday greetings, but they also had the following warning

posted. So if you get an e-mail referencing this site adn containing

an attachment, *please* don't open it.

 

Ys,

Madhusudani dasi

 

Important Notice

 

We have just learned that an email worm has been found circulating

the web referencing MessageMates.com. This worm file is in no way

connected with MessageMates.com.

 

If you have received an email with a message that reads:

 

he, your lame client cant read HTML, haha.

click attachment to see some stunningly HOT stuff

 

or

 

http://stuart.messagemates.com/index.html

 

Hypercool Happy Year 2000 funny programs and

animationsŠ.

We attached our recent animation from this site in our

mail! Check it out!

 

then you have been passed the Worm in question.

 

It is a worm that was created and set loose by someone who's trying

to spoil all of our Holiday fun. Do not run the attachment included in

the email and please delete the email message immediately!

[Guest guest]

"COM: Madhava Gosh (das) ACBSP (New Vrindavan - USA)" wrote:

 

> [Text 2866299 from COM]

>

> It probably means you have a virus already on your computer that is sending

> messages. Beter update your virus protection.

 

HKDD: That seems like a reasonable guess. Actually, I just updated my virus

protection just now with the latest from our computing and information services

(CIS). 2670 files scanned: "No viruses or suspicious files/boot sectors were

found." So it appears that the virus had infected the person who somehow sent

me a message.

 

Our CIS department gives the following list to be alert for:

 

Some symptoms of viruses:

 

Programs take longer to load than normal.

Hard drive constantly runs out of free space.

Document can’t be saved, especially as a template.

Conventional memory is less than it used to be.

Program size changes.

Programs act erratically.

Strange sounds or beeping noises come out of your computer or keyboard.

Weird graphics appear on your monitor.

Files have odd names that you did not give them.

New files consistently appear.

Floppy or hard drive runs when you are not using it.

Machine refuses to boot up…

 

your servant,

 

Hare Krsna dasi

 

 

>

>

> "COM: Hare Krsna dasi (Brunswick, Maine - USA)" wrote:

>

> > [Text 2865599 from COM]

> >

> > I just received an e-mail -- supposedly from "Noma Petroff" entitled

> > North American GBC Executive Committee on Y2K"

> >

> > This e-mail is **not** from me. It contains an attachment which invites

> > the reader to download funny messages. I suspect that it is some kind

> > of virus.

> >

> > Do not open any attachements over the Y2K transition period -- even if

> > you know the person -- unless you are positive they are legitimate.

> > Many will contain viruses.

> >

> > Any note which claims to be North American GBC Executive Committee on

> > Y2K is **not** from me.

> >

> > your servant,

> >

> > Hare Krsna dasi

[Guest guest]

> Do not open any attachements over the Y2K transition period -- even if you

> know the person -- unless you are positive they are legitimate. Many will

> contain viruses.

 

Sorry. Excuse me, Mataji, for my comment, but this is just a healthy

practice completely unrelated to the Y2K bug. I agree, being very proud of

my computer experience, I'm unable to check myself, but this is completely

true - I'm trying, but having read so many messages on COM about Y2K

problems, that are just pushing me into the anger, I have to say something.

 

Believe me, I went through specialized cource on microprocessors. Although I

was not designing computers and their architecture myself, I have very clear

understanding of the finest things that are going on in chips. Here I'm a

theory man, not practitioner... well, anyway. Therefore, I can with the

whole responsibility say that the Y2K problem was invented by American mass

media. There is, indeed, a very insignificant problem with PC's and some

other small computers. It is not faced by computers designed for Unix type

operating systems, for these computers will have problems in 2013 due to the

specifics of UNIX. And so on. The whole thing, I agree, is very profitable

for software corporation that are making money on the bug that hardly

exists, and easily could be solved within one month, if this was the

purpose. Sorry, this is the end of my statement.

 

One-two weeks will be spent for writing software patches... Maybe two weeks

for manufacturers to produce new ROM chips for obsolete computers. Just

imagine, how simple the hole thing could be... completely impossible to make

money in such a situation... it's much better to cheat the people... anyway,

they believe we went to the Moon :-)

 

yhs, jayagovardhana dasa -=@tHE cRaCkEr@=- and computer pirate...

well, at your service!

 

keep smiling, Krsna will save us from all evil