Re: LIST ADMIN: VIRUS Warning: Please Repsond

Next question is, how did this happen?

ltiu

Mercadante, Thomas F wrote:

>My point was that in the corporate world, there is little choice.
>The only viable software choice is Outlook on WinNT boxes.
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>Tom Mercadante
>Oracle Certified Professional
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>-----Original Message-----
>Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 6:39 PM
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
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>No, I'm not saying that people using M$ products are doing so because they
>are stupid or lazy. Perhaps they are if they refuse to even consider the
>alternatives. I don't consider myself stupid or lazy and I'm using M$
>products both at home and at work. I don't like them. I suggest
>alternatives to damagement every time I have the opportunity. For my home
>machines, I have put my foot down -- neither XP nor W2K will ever be used in
>my home -- they are just too damn invasive. I'm toying with the idea of
>getting one of those Lindows machines when I need to replace one of my
>current machines. The only reason I don't go with full Linux is that I have
>not found a good Linux alternative to Quicken (and I'm either too busy or
>too lazy to write one 8-)
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>To restate what I said before: You always have a choice. Some people choose
>to believe that M$ is the ONLY choice. I don't.
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>Kevin Kennedy
>First Point Energy Corporation
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>If you take RAC out of Oracle you get OLE! What can this mean?
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>-----Original Message-----
>Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 1:39 PM
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
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>So basically you're saying that those of us using Microsoft products are
>doing so because we're stupid or lazy to change?
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>-----Original Message-----
>Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 2:19 PM
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
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>You always have a choice. Sometimes it is difficult to make the right
>choice. Consider a high school student who is doing poorly -- they can
>make the easy choice and drop out or they can make the difficult choice
>and work harder. In the case of M$, the easy choice is to accept
>whatever M$ does and produces. The difficult choice is to find a viable
>alternative (and even more difficult is to sell that to management). In
>the past, M$ bought out or crushed any viable alternative; they have
>been finding that more difficult lately.
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>Kevin Kennedy
>First Point Energy Corporation
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>If you take RAC out of Oracle you get OLE! What can this mean?
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>-----Original Message-----
>Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 10:09 AM
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
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>Gee, that's a helpful reply! As if we have any choice!
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>Tom Mercadante
>Oracle Certified Professional
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>-----Original Message-----
>Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 12:08 PM
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
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>Stop using MS products if you are seriously worried about viruses.
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>johanna.doran_at_sungard.com wrote:
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>>Got trigger happy, so I'm resending.
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 10:11 AM
>>To: DBA List (E-mail); Fat Dba (E-mail)
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>>Hi,
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>> I recieved an email today as follows:
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>>Display name of sender to me: NAV for Microsoft Exchange-DDS_MAIL
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><NAVMSE-DDS_MAIL_at_diamonddata.com>@SUNGARD
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>>Address of sender to me: NAV for Microsoft Exchange-DDS_MAIL
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><NAVMSE-DDS_MAIL_at_diamonddata.com>@SUNGARD
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>>Recipient of the infected attachment: Kelly Grigg\Inbox
>>Subject of the message: Happy humour Epiphany
>>One or more attachments were deleted
>>Attachment URL.pif was Deleted for the following reasons:
>>Virus W32.Klez.E_at_mm was found.
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>>Here is the repsonse from my guys:
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>>It's sending out from other domains rather sungard.com, eg.
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>diamonddata.com
>and lazydba.com to you. I attached the description from your first
>email.
>It is stating that it's being blocked when it's trying to send to you,
>in
>which means it's infected on their end and are being scanned/blocked on
>it's
>way out from their systems. Have you contact them about the possible of
>virus attach on their end. In any case, we were alarmed and run the scan
>anyway. See what they can find.
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