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

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

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>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

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> 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