In with all of the email we’ve been receiving because of the sobig
virus and variants was this gem:
Date: Thu Aug 21 11:22:53 2003 To: <faq@e-smith.com> From: postmaster@alna.lt Subject: Network Associates Webshield - e-mail Content Alert Network Associates WebShield SMTP V4.5 MR1a on mars intercepted a mail from <faq@e-smith.com> which caused the Content Filter <*.pif> unallowed attachment to be triggered.
Long ping times though.
8 responses to “Where is the kaboom? It was supposed to go kaboom!”
I just received something like 14 of those horrible viruses in a row, “Re; ….” with the .pif attachment. ugh. *hate it*
You obviously weathered the blackout. That was fun.
Yeah, but I bet yours were all from Earth!
Yep, the blackout was interesting indeed. The life-or-death part worked out fine — we lost no fish! I learned two important lessons, though. I promised myself I would not post about the blackout so I will convey them here instead:
Oops. :-)
Also,
*throws a phone-line powered handset at Rich from the seemingly infinite pile his parents keep around in case the power goes out*
Yep. I have just moved my firewall from freebsd to openbsd. Guess what was plugged into the UPS and what wasn’t? *oops* old firewall box was still running but…
Thanks! It was more complete then the quick one I had thrown together. ;-)
New one floating about.