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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / September 2003Microsoft Emails OT
I am being inundated with Microsoft emails with subject headings such as Security Patch, Bug and many with virus messages deleted by my server. Is anyone else having this problem? I rang my server but they said there was nothing they could do about spam emails and wanted to know if I had subscribed to anything or had anyone else been near the computer (ye gods, Bonnie was hanging around the keyboard yesterday). I said no on both counts. The problem started yesterday and this morning there were 150 of these emails to delete. Today I have got rid of another fifty or so. Fortunately I have Mailwasher so I can delete them without downloading them. I have heard on the news here that people are having problems with computers crashing from some virus which is attacking microsoft and am wondering if this is somehow connected. Scream!!!! Fortunately cyclamen plants do not appear to be poisonous as Bonnie has neatly snapped off all the lovely red flowers on one I was given for a present. She has eaten several of them and seems to find them tasty. I have brought in some of my flowering cymbidium orchids and I suspect they will be the next items on her diet list. She has been sleeping amongst the daffodils but doesn't eat them, just as well, as I know they are poisonous. Bev  SignatureGod may have created man before woman but there is always a rough draft before the masterpiece. Bev most of us are having problems with these Microsoft! emails (see the post odd ball email messages) this morning when I turned on my computer I had 346, since then I have had about another 100 - I am just deleting them as they come in - I did a scan and nothing has shown up on my computer - just have to weather the storm!! but it is a nuisance. Lois > I am being inundated with Microsoft emails with subject headings such as > Security Patch, Bug and many with virus messages deleted by my server. [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Bev > Bev most of us are having problems with these Microsoft! emails (see the > post odd ball email messages) this morning when I turned on my computer I > had 346, since then I have had about another 100 - I am just deleting them > as they come in - I did a scan and nothing has shown up on my computer - > just have to weather the storm!! but it is a nuisance. I discovered Earthlin has improved its "Spaminator" since last I looked at it. I can now opt for it to send everything from anyone not in my address book to a "Questionable E-Mail" file, where I can scroll down and delete all that stuff before it downloads to my computer. It also gives me an option to send messages to my inbox and add the sender to my address book, so I don't have to miss any I want, just because they're blocked. > I am being inundated with Microsoft emails with subject headings such as > Security Patch, Bug and many with virus messages deleted by my server. [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Bev It seems to be prevelant across the usenet. It all started about the same time too. I'm switching to a new address and have now munged my address for Usenet. Which I find a PITA also, but not as bad as this. THink is, I've been on usenet for years with that address unmunged and didn't have a problem. Just lucky I guess. Karen Karen <kchuplis@alltelSPAM.netGOAWAY> had some very interesting things to say about Re: Microsoft Emails OT: >It seems to be prevelant across the usenet. It all started about the same >time too. I'm switching to a new address and have now munged my address for >Usenet. Which I find a PITA also, but not as bad as this. THink is, I've >been on usenet for years with that address unmunged and didn't have a >problem. Just lucky I guess. I don't think munging helps. TTBOMM, I've never used this address on Usenet unmunged, and I'm getting flooded too. SignatureSeanette Blaylock "You attribute perfect rationality to the whole of humanity, which has to be one of the most misguided assumptions ever." - Alan Krueger in NANAE [make obvious correction to address to send e-mail] Its a virus. Looks like it is going to be a bad one. These two links will say more. http://www.atnewyork.com/news/article.php/3080001 http://earthlink.com.com/2100-7349_3-5078696.html > I am being inundated with Microsoft emails with subject headings such as > Security Patch, Bug and many with virus messages deleted by my server. [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Bev > I am being inundated with Microsoft emails with subject headings such as > Security Patch, Bug and many with virus messages deleted by my server. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > with computers crashing from some virus which is attacking microsoft and > am wondering if this is somehow connected. Scream!!!! I know it's small consolation, but it appears to be worldwide, so perhaps someone, SOMEWHERE can do something about it! (We can but pray.) > Fortunately cyclamen plants do not appear to be poisonous as Bonnie has > neatly snapped off all the lovely red flowers on one I was given for a [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > amongst the daffodils but doesn't eat them, just as well, as I know they > are poisonous. Well, I always understood diefenbachia was poisonous to cats, but when someone gave me a "floor model" in a big pot, Paraclete snacked it down to the roots, with no apparent ill effects. (She succumbed to feline lukemia a couple of years later, but I'm sure the two were not related.) >> I am being inundated with Microsoft emails with subject headings such as >> Security Patch, Bug and many with virus messages deleted by my server. [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] >to the roots, with no apparent ill effects. (She succumbed to feline >lukemia a couple of years later, but I'm sure the two were not related.) The other name for the plant is Dumb Cane and I heard it paralyzes the throat if eaten -- >>Well, I always understood diefenbachia was poisonous to cats, but >>when someone gave me a "floor model" in a big pot, Paraclete [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >The other name for the plant is Dumb Cane and I heard it paralyzes >the throat if eaten -- As I recall, the plant contains crystals of oxalic acid, strong enough to cause a chemical burn in the throat of any human eating it. This makes it difficult to talk until your throat recovers. I don't think that the acid is strong enough to be life-threatening. If Paraclete didn't suffer any ill effects, this might mean that cats have a greater tolerance to acid than humans do. She probably didn't eat very much of it at a time. SignatureJohn F. Eldredge -- john@jfeldredge.com PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria > The other name for the plant is Dumb Cane and I heard it paralyzes the > throat if eaten -- Well, there was never anything wrong with her voice-box (she often reminded me that her grandmother was an albino Siamese). > Well, I always understood diefenbachia was poisonous to cats, but when > someone gave me a "floor model" in a big pot, Paraclete snacked it down > to the roots, with no apparent ill effects. (She succumbed to feline > lukemia a couple of years later, but I'm sure the two were not related.) The sap of diefenbachia is supposed to be very astringent, so the plant is called dumb cane (I think). With one bite you pucker up and can't talk for a while. SignatureWhen the fog came in on little cat feet last night, it left these little muddy paw prints on the hood of my car. > > Well, I always understood diefenbachia was poisonous to cats, but when > > someone gave me a "floor model" in a big pot, Paraclete snacked it down [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > plant is called dumb cane (I think). With one bite you pucker up > and can't talk for a while. How do you prouncounce "deifenbachia"? It reminds me of a certain deaf wolf from the TV show Due South. And anything that reminds me of Due South is a Good Thing <drool> Yowie >>> Well, I always understood diefenbachia was poisonous to cats, but when >>> someone gave me a "floor model" in a big pot, Paraclete snacked it down [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Yowie Deef-en-bach-ee-ya > >>> Well, I always understood diefenbachia was poisonous to cats, but when > >>> someone gave me a "floor model" in a big pot, Paraclete snacked it down [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > > Deef-en-bach-ee-ya So the wolf was named after a flower (as pronounced with a Canadian accent) ??????? Deef-n-baker (or that show my Aussie ears heard the wolf's name) Yowie >>>> On 2003-09-20, EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) <evgmsop@earthlink.net> > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > Yowie I don't know! I've never heard of that wolf. Karen Bev <bevdun@xtra.co.nz> had some very interesting things to say about Microsoft Emails OT: >I am being inundated with Microsoft emails with subject headings such as >Security Patch, Bug and many with virus messages deleted by my server. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >(ye gods, Bonnie was hanging around the keyboard yesterday). I said no >on both counts. I'm seeing reports on several newsgroups. Some [bleep] little [bleep] with too much time on its hands and nothing useful to do with same seems to have sent out more viruses. SignatureSeanette Blaylock "You attribute perfect rationality to the whole of humanity, which has to be one of the most misguided assumptions ever." - Alan Krueger in NANAE [make obvious correction to address to send e-mail] I haven't gotten any MS emails or worm mails or anything... although today I did get an MSN email in French, I just deleted it! Stacey :) > I am being inundated with Microsoft emails with subject headings such as > Security Patch, Bug and many with virus messages deleted by my server. [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > God may have created man before woman but there is always a rough draft > before the masterpiece. |
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