Re: virus? hoax?

["Ed Walraven" <ed_walraven@xxxxxxx>]

Sorry,  NO I was not ...

Ed

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Vicker, CCP" <rv-lists@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 5:43 PM
Subject: Re: virus? hoax?


> Ed,
>
> Where you at Common and stayed at the Gaylord?
>
> My Norton tried to do its regular update while I was there and I didn't
> notice till the Swen virus started to show up that it no longer could
> update. I hadn't gotten a virus and was able to go to the Symantec site
> and find directions to clean out its ...\downloads  folder so it would
> update. The other symptom was that it continuously said "Updating" for
> the date of the virus definitions.
>
> The in-room internet changed Thursday night. Before that I could start
> my e-mail application or CAE and connect. That night CAE went into a
> loop trying to connect. When I tried a browser to check the
> destination's status it went into a loop "trying to locate your
> computer..." After I killed everything and went back into the browser as
> the first step I got redirected to the Gaylord's page (never seen it
> before) that required accepting their usage terms and then everything
> was smooth. I was just wondering if the goofiness prior to accepting
> their terms caused the Norton download corruption.
>
> BTW they redirected all DNS lookups regardless of server address to
> their server. This caused Mailwasher to flag everything as being
> blacklisted because it found a hit when it did a DNS Blacklist lookup
> which didn't really go to the likes of SpamCop.
>
> Roger Vicker, CCP
>
> On 9/19/2003 10:35 PM, Ed Walraven wrote:
>
> >I am getting the Microsoft update messages tonight.
> >
> >I have not opened the file attached, but have  preview on.
> >
> >I have tried twice tonight to do a Norton Update, and it fails.
> >
> >I am looking for information, but have not found anything.
> >
> >I have been unable to locate patch patch5612 anywhere on the Microsoft
> >site...
> >
> >Good luck,
> >
> >Ed
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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