Klarinet Archive - Posting 000140.txt from 2002/07

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] Just checking ...
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 22:11:09 -0400

The reason those show up under "latest postings" and not on the list is that
the "lastest postings" is really a mail address. Interestingly enough, I
accidentally posted from that address once or twice for testing - that's
all - and once in a while a virus will be sent directly to that address.

So the virus dosen't get there via the list - it gets there because it's a
real address. I check once a month or so and delete any virues that "trickle
in" via that email address.

-----Original Message-----
From: LeliaLoban@-----.com]
Subject: [kl] Just checking ...

Gary Truesdail wrote
>>My local newspaper had a new article about
>>hackers maybe related to terrorism business
>>hoping to disrupt the mass communication
>>systems.

Mark Charette wrote,
>Sounds like normal, everyday newspaper sensationalism ...

Probably, but I think that a virus (garden variety, I assume) did give the
clarinet.org web site a try, in between the last two klarinet digests.
Digest number 3914, which generated on 07/07/2002 at 4:05:27 AM Eastern
Daylight Time, was only two messages long and ended with message number
55242. The next thing I got from the list was Digest number 3915, which
generated on 07/08/2002 at 4:05:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time. It began with
message number 55243. There's no break in the numerical sequence of the
messages, in other words.

But there's a message missing. Around midday today (Monday, 07/08/02), I
checked the "Klarinet Latest Postings" on the clarinet.org site to see
whether something was wrong at the site, since no Digest had generated in
more than 24 hrs. and that's unusual. There were two messages under "Latest
Postings." The first one, which has never appeared on the Digests, looked
to
me like a virus that the klarinet software translated into a harmless text
file (a long spew of gibberish: code translated to alphabet soup). It did
not appear on Digest number 3915 that generated at least five hours
(probably
more) after I visited the site, and didn't affect the numerical sequence of
the messages that do appear.

I just checked again. As of 8:03 Eastern Daylight time, that odd message is
still on the "Latest Postings," along with the messages that have already
gone out as Digest number 3915 and a couple more messages that were sent
after the Digest generated. The sender of the apparent virus is not a
screen
name I recognize from the list:

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