Thunderfall the Virus-spreader?

[Plexus]

I got the following message from thunderfall@civfanatics.com:

Re: My Message
See the file.

+++ Attachment: No Virus found
+++ MessageLabs AntiVirus - www.messagelabs.com

the attachment was named:
message_enemysoldier88.txt [about 20 spaces] .exe

Sneaky little bastard, eh? It pretends to be TF, says that it is not infected and masquerades as a text file.

I urge that anyone who recieves a similar email not open the attachment, even better, don't open attachments.

 

[Knight-Dragon]

Insolent fool. A crusade will be launched worldwide and the miscreant will be cast into the depths of the 99th level of Hell!

On a more sober note, TF shld make a general announcement in the forums...

 

[ainwood]

Not necessary. A common way of delivering virii nowadays is as follows:

Person A has a virus on his / her PC. Person A has Persons B & C in their address book.

Virus reads address book, and gets details for persons B & C. It then sends itself to Person C, but sets message so that it purports to be from person B. In this case, TF may simply be person 'B'.

 

[WillJ]

Not necessary. A common way of delivering virii nowadays is as follows:

Person A has a virus on his / her PC. Person A has Persons B & C in their address book.

Virus reads address book, and gets details for persons B & C. It then sends itself to Person C, but sets message so that it purports to be from person B. In this case, TF may simply be person 'B'.

Nah, I think Thunderfall just likes sending viruses.

 

[Thunderfall]

I don't have time to send virus. My computer was on all night mass mailing newsletter to forum members.

Seriously, everyone should have an anti-virus program such as Norton Antivirus that automatically deletes bad attachments. I receive 200 spam emails a day, 95% of them contain virus attachments. Nowadays I set my Outlook to download just the headers and then I manually select the few non-spam emails to download and tell the server to delete the rest, w/o downloading the spam emails to my computer.

 

[truckingpete]

I don't have time to send virus. My computer was on all night mass mailing newsletter to forum members.

And I got one of those newsletters... Interesting...needs a little more stuff, like whats happening on Civfanatics, etc.. but so far so good..

 

[Thunderfall]

And I got one of those newsletters... Interesting...needs a little more stuff, like whats happening on Civfanatics, etc.. but so far so good..

I don't want to bore people with too much details.

What other things do u think I should have included in the newsletter?

 

[nonconformist]

An invite to a bar-b-q.

 

[joespaniel]

I don't want to bore people with too much details.

Since when?

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

Winning numbers to the next lottery.

 

[Thunderfall]

Winning numbers to the next lottery.

That I will keep it to myself. If you saw the Bruce Almighty movie, you'll know why.

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

Ahh come on TF, you can trust me

 

[MarineCorps]

I don't want to bore people with too much details.

What other things do u think I should have included in the newsletter?

Hmm, was that the first edition?

 

[The Last Conformist]

A common way of delivering virii nowadays is as follows:

'Virus' pluralizes as 'viruses' (English-style) or 'vira' (Latin-style). **Virii looks like a misspelling of viri "men".

 

[hbdragon88]

Yahoo and Hotmail already provide virus protection - Hotmail has Macafee, and Yahoo has Norton. If there's a virus they'll tell you in big block letters and won't let you download the attachment.

 

[MarineCorps]

Yeah I noticed that. Very nice thing to as more often then not I would DL the thing just to see what was in there.

 

[Goober]

I don't want to bore people with too much details.

What other things do u think I should have included in the newsletter?

About the Model Parliament moving.

 

[Dell19]

Its moved to another site though

 

[Knight-Dragon]

Yep, it has moved to another site, so any further mention of it will be considered as advertising.

 

[truckingpete]

I don't want to bore people with too much details.

What other things do u think I should have included in the newsletter?

Well the DemoGame 4 is going to end this weekend we think...BIG EVENT!! We start war with Persia, (our wrost enemy in the DG4) That you can add..

By the way, we are going for a Conquest victory..