Sinister: ease your virus in the sea

[Paul Laird]

Here's a link for those you infected with the badtrans worm virus (Stuart
David as well apparently) it explains what it is and how to remove it:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.badtrans.b@mm.ht
ml

I've had the arduous task of removing it manually from a friend's old pooter
- the only way to block it is a virus software update or...
buy a Mac :o).

Now on to list business!!

What with the Festive season rapidly approaching I've decided to do a little
giveaway. I have a copy of "It's A Cool, Cool Christmas" on Jeepster CD
which came out last xmas and features festive tracks by various "indie"
luminaries (Dandy Warhols, Eels, Flaming Lips, Low etc.) and includes Belle
& Sebastian track "O Come, O Come Emmanuel".

It is free to a UK listee* (for the cost of postage) who replies to me (not
the list!!). If there are a few of you I'll do a draw.

The Eggman (on a Mac)



* sorry non-UK listees - i've tried this before and the postage is too much
hassle      



on 30/11/01 12:00 pm, Kenneth P Y Chu at pykachu100 at hotmail.com wrote:

> Please read: This is a public health message for sinister members.
> 
> I think a few of you (especially those who have posted recently) would have
> been receiving mysterious e-mail messages from various members of the list.
> Titled Re: Sinister: whatever your message was.  With some kind of
> attachments like Card.doc.pif or great music.mp3.pif.  They are mostly
> characteristically 40k in size.  And the tell tale sign is the ".PIF"
> extension in the file name, "great music.mp3.pif" may *look* like an mp3
> file, but it isn't because the extension is actaully .pif which is a
> runnable program (and thus, probably a virus, why else would it be
> disguising itself as an mp3).
> 
> I think this virus transmits itself by replying to every message you receive
> with a virus, and therefore something like this list would be very
> vulnerable as everytime you post someone would send you a virus (it's ok as
> long as you don't open the attachment) and so please, be careful.
> 
> If you think you have a virus (e.g. if you've opened something like that
> recently - for example a supposed mp3 file that did nothing).  Write me and
> I'll find out how to get rid of the virus for you.  Or if you're a pretty
> girl looking for love, write me too. :-)
> 
> Finally if you're an expert on virus removal please shed some lights as to
> how to get rid of these e-mail viruses.
> 
> No puns today, with the seriousness of this virus talk I felt a pun would be
> ill-humoured.  ahem.  May all your computers be disease-free.
> 
> Love and Red Bulls
> Ken
> 
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 +-+       "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper           +-+
 +-+  "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+
 +-+    "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000     +-+
 +-+  "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000  +-+
 +-+  "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001   +-+
 +-+               Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa                 +-+
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