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Virus Alert (2)
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A couple of vicious viruses are in circulation. Be careful with your personal mail. List mail will not be affected, but be watchful with every piece of e-mail that comes to you regardless of the source. 1) Do not open "Pretty Park" as it will erase your hard drive. It comes as an e-mail from a friend, having attached itself to his original mail or as a duplicate. He prolly will not know his system is transmitting the virus. Delete the e-mail.
2) If you receive an email called "An Internet
Flower For You," do not open it. Delete it. This
virus removes all dynamic link libraries(.dll files) from your computer.
Your computer will not be able
to boot up.
Technically Pretty Park is a Worm not a Virus, but it does not erase your hard drive. It does compromise security though by connecting to IRC. It should still be deleted but the Symantec AntiVirus Encyclopaedia downgraded it from their top threats list. The Internet Flower for You is a hoax virus and should be ignored. Virus protection recommendations There are 6 new virus strains discovered daily so here are some virus prevention recommendations:
1. Install antiviral software - don't just use a one-off scan offered from
some websites. Stay safe!
Regards
Club members,
I never lose anything that's unimportant. If I lose anything I don't need, I don't miss it, don't even know it's gone. But if I lost my Black Hills tri-color gold ring, for instance, I think I'd exhaust every possibility of getting it back. So why no lost important stuff in the paper? Shame perhaps? Folks think someone might think them careless or stupid? Some things you might not want to advertise for: "I lost some teeth, did I leave them at your house?" .........."Why, no, Dick. Say, I didn't know you had false teeth! If I find them I'll give you a call though. OK?" Un huh.........Yeah. ........"I was in here for lunch an hour ago, anyone turn in some teeth?" ........."Lots of gloves and coats, Mister, and a few sweaters. No teeth. Sorry. Hey! Need an umbrella?" I can understand the animal ads - some people really love their pets, treat them like one of the family. Have funerals sometimes when they die. Coffins even, and an actual cemetery plot. A missing pet is an important loss to them. Yes, I can understand that. But how the hell do you lose one? "I had him a minute ago, must have fallen out of my pocket." or "Must've laid him down somewhere and forgot all about him. ........Got the leash though!" Most dogs and cats don't really get lost, they choose to go away. "Feed me that God-damn leftover casserole. I'll show ya'. See if I ever piss on your fucking floor again!" And it's gone. There's always some sucker a few miles down the road with fresh ground beef, some Bologna, or a warm bowl of milk. House cats NEVER get lost. Ever see an ad for a house kitty? Lost: Mature female Persian, grey and white. Last seen in the area of the easy chair and the throw rug. Reward. Call....... Never happen. Cat adds are for outside cats only. But outside cats never really let anyone own them. So they're never really anyone's to lose. They borrow a yard and porch for a few months and then head for greener pastures. "Got all the mice and I hate that rotten fuckin' gourmet tuna. It's 90% fish gut and 9% bone! Adios, Assholes!"
I suggest that the column be renamed: "Lost". And it
should only be for animals. Everything else that's
found, just keep, and keep silent. If a finder doesn't
like that idea, there's a mailbox just around the
corner. And don't forget the Good Will drop box. Hell,
if the find is a good one, they'll even come pick it
up! (Wonder if they have my watch? How many years ago
was that?)
I have received several replies to my "watch" post - seems a sour note was reached when I said if you find something, keep it or give it to Good Will. These replies from guys who lost something and had it returned. Seems they found the expressed attitude callous. Well, it ain't me, Babe. On that, in defense of myself, let me say this: Once, when just about ten years old, I left nearly ten dollars in change from a purchase on the counter of a drug store. Being from a poor South Chicago family of eight, I would have caught a flood of Hell if I had lost what was then enough money to feed us all for several days if not an entire week. Well, I realized I had left the money while on my way home. I went back to the drugstore, bawling! The clerk was very nice - he explained that a man had found the money on the counter and had given it to him in case who ever lost it returned for it. Now that was two people who could have just pocketed the money. It showed a kindness I had never experienced in so dramatic a fashion. An anonymous act of kindness. It was, and to this day is, a treasure to me of more than the returned money.
I have made that a part of my life - doing things that
have a positive impact on someone and remaining in the
shadows. I always make an effort to return anything I
find that is lost. Turning items in to service desks
is the usual way. I once found a rather large diamond
ring in a grocery store. It was in a frozen food case,
exposed when I picked up a box of frozen waffles. Took
it to the service counter and there was the woman who
had lost it, crying hysterically. I refused her offer
of a reward - the alteration her face went through
from hysteria to joy was reward enough. My sentiment
in the post regarding keeping, or giving found items
to Good Will, was just rhetoric. Not me at all really.
Last November, I submitted a speech by Coretta Scott King to the list. I can think of no finer tribute to Dr. King today than his wife's words which indicated the road to even wider inclusion that she has followed since her husband was shot and killed on April 4, 1968, at the age of 39. The woman has more guts than almost anyone else in American public life in vigorously supporting gay rights.
You can read her speech to that effect in Silverfoxes Club Digest #045.
Headline:
Text: The couples, one pair of lesbians and one pair of gay men, posted banns in the Christian tradition, which under one reading of provincial law allows marriage without a licence. The province of Ontario is unlikely to recognise the unions as marriage because it defines marriage as taking place between a man and a woman.
But the Governor-General of Canada - the
Queen's representative who is legally head of
state - has sent a telegram congratulating the
couples.
End of silverfoxesclub-digest V1 #108
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