Remember Melissa and Santa Klez?

[Snowsquall]

Please respond and see how many viruses are in this little rendition.
Melissa is a little older now. She places some mistletoe on the gate. I
guess one could call this gate a love gate, she smiles. The she, her little
sister, Lisa and her little brother, Kevin decide to go tobogganing.
However her pesky brother tries to steal her toboggan so she yells out
"That's my tob oggan! go get your own."
And to her sister she cries, don't eat my nachi chips and turn that ghetto
blaster down! Go eat a bagle if your hungry.
Else Santa won't come. Yes she sighs; those brats are becoming my doom.
Yet they continue to sass-[h]er.
On a brighter note, she realizes Kevin has talent as she watched him last
summer shooting basket balls in the net. Sky is the limit she ponders as
she watched him continue to shoot for baskets. And last fall her little
sister struggled with her spelling trying to spell "kelvinator" and coming
out with "kelvir" Lisa did manage to get it right in the end.
Then she hears a noise she looked up and sure enough Dasher, Rudolph and the
crew with Santa Klez himself. Melissa breaths a sigh of relief.
Merry Christmas and keep sober.

 

[Ant]

Please respond and see how many viruses are in this little rendition.

Twelve (see below).

Melissa is a little older now. She places some mistletoe on the gate. I
guess one could call this gate a love gate, she smiles. The she, her little
sister, Lisa and her little brother, Kevin decide to go tobogganing.
However her pesky brother tries to steal her toboggan so she yells out
"That's my tob oggan! go get your own."
And to her sister she cries, don't eat my nachi chips and turn that ghetto
blaster down! Go eat a bagle if your hungry.
Else Santa won't come. Yes she sighs; those brats are becoming my doom.
Yet they continue to sass-[h]er.
On a brighter note, she realizes Kevin has talent as she watched him last
summer shooting basket balls in the net. Sky is the limit she ponders as
she watched him continue to shoot for baskets. And last fall her little
sister struggled with her spelling trying to spell "kelvinator" and coming
out with "kelvir" Lisa did manage to get it right in the end.
Then she hears a noise she looked up and sure enough Dasher, Rudolph and the
crew with Santa Klez himself. Melissa breaths a sigh of relief.
Merry Christmas and keep sober.

(ROT13)

zryvffn
ybirtngr (V gubhtug vg jnf ybirfna, be unir V tbg vg jebat?)
zlgbo
anpuv
oynfgre
ontyr
zlqbbz
fnffre
argfxl
xryive
xyrm
fbore

 

[Hoosier Daddy]

Please respond and see how many viruses are in this little rendition.

Twelve (see below).

Melissa is a little older now. She places some mistletoe on the gate. I
guess one could call this gate a love gate, she smiles. The she, her little
sister, Lisa and her little brother, Kevin decide to go tobogganing.
However her pesky brother tries to steal her toboggan so she yells out
"That's my tob oggan! go get your own."
And to her sister she cries, don't eat my nachi chips and turn that ghetto
blaster down! Go eat a bagle if your hungry.
Else Santa won't come. Yes she sighs; those brats are becoming my doom.
Yet they continue to sass-[h]er.
On a brighter note, she realizes Kevin has talent as she watched him last
summer shooting basket balls in the net. Sky is the limit she ponders as
she watched him continue to shoot for baskets. And last fall her little
sister struggled with her spelling trying to spell "kelvinator" and coming
out with "kelvir" Lisa did manage to get it right in the end.
Then she hears a noise she looked up and sure enough Dasher, Rudolph and the
crew with Santa Klez himself. Melissa breaths a sigh of relief.
Merry Christmas and keep sober.

(ROT13)

zryvffn
ybirtngr (V gubhtug vg jnf ybirfna, be unir V tbg vg jebat?)
zlgbo
anpuv
oynfgre
ontyr
zlqbbz
fnffre
argfxl
xryive
xyrm
fbore

Dasher.

(and almost had 'simile' too and Kriz-mas could had worked in a pinch)

 

[Ant]

Twelve (see below).

[snip]

Dasher.

Not heard of that one.

(and almost had 'simile' too and Kriz-mas could had worked in a pinch)

I was reading about a new IM worm at isc.sans.org, which they were
calling "Santa" -- so there's another.

I wondered if Snowsquall intended to include just 12. Y'know, one for
each day of Xmas.

 

[Ian Kenefick]

Not heard of that one.

It's a network worm exploiting the MSDTC (MS05-051) vulnerability.
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32dashera.html

 

[Snowsquall]

(ROT13)

What does ROT13 mean?

zryvffn
ybirtngr (V gubhtug vg jnf ybirfna, be unir V tbg vg jebat?)

You asked about LoveSan. No I did mean Lovgate. I keep putting an "e"
there.\

BTW Blaster is also called LoveSan.

zlgbo
anpuv
oynfgre
ontyr
zlqbbz
fnffre
argfxl
xryive
xyrm
fbore

I enjoyed the figuring out the "cryptogram".

 

[Snowsquall]

:
Please respond and see how many viruses are in this little rendition.

Twelve (see below).

[snip]

Dasher.

Not heard of that one.

That's a new virus that affects mainly Windows 2000

I was reading about a new IM worm at isc.sans.org, which they were
calling "Santa" -- so there's another.

I wondered if Snowsquall intended to include just 12. Y'know, one for
each day of Xmas.

Co-incidence.
Oh, counting Dasher that could make 13.

 

[Dustin Cook]

What does ROT13 mean?

It's a simple text cypher of sotrts, to rearrange data.


I could have had a good holiday without you reminding me about Melissa.
Do you have any idea how much shit that almost got me into ? And I
didn't even write it.

Regards,
Dustin Cook

 

[Ant]

What does ROT13 mean?

Rotate by 13 places.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rot13

You asked about LoveSan. No I did mean Lovgate. I keep putting an "e"
there.\

BTW Blaster is also called LoveSan.
Ok.

I enjoyed the figuring out the "cryptogram".

Great, but let OE do it for you!
From the menu: Message -> Unscramble (ROT13).

 

[Norman L. DeForest]

What does ROT13 mean?

My Lumber Cartel Sooper Sekrit Decoder Ring[1] can be found here:
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~af380/Tips.html#lc13

You asked about LoveSan. No I did mean Lovgate. I keep putting an "e"
there.\

BTW Blaster is also called LoveSan.
I enjoyed the figuring out the "cryptogram".

It takes only five keystrokes[2] for me to read that. I could shorten it
to three if I changed the batch file name.

[1] TINLCSSDR
[2] Alt-J to shell to DOS, "r13" + <Enter> to run the batch file to
flip my character set to ROT13. (Another five keystrokes to flip
back to my CP1252 VGA font.)

 

[Ant]

:

[ROT13]

It takes only five keystrokes[2] for me to read that. I could shorten it
to three if I changed the batch file name.

[2] Alt-J to shell to DOS, "r13" + <Enter> to run the batch file to
flip my character set to ROT13. (Another five keystrokes to flip
back to my CP1252 VGA font.)

What a palaver! It takes one click on my OE toolbar, and no need to
reset it when you move on to the next post.

 

[Hoosier Daddy]

What does ROT13 mean?

Alphabet characters rotated by 13 places.

I enjoyed the figuring out the "cryptogram".

Easier given

X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2670

Pulldown menu "message" and select Unscramble (ROT13)

or Alt, m, 3 while viewing the scrambled text.

 

[Norman L. DeForest]

:

[ROT13]

It takes only five keystrokes[2] for me to read that. I could shorten it
to three if I changed the batch file name.

[2] Alt-J to shell to DOS, "r13" + <Enter> to run the batch file to
flip my character set to ROT13. (Another five keystrokes to flip
back to my CP1252 VGA font.)

What a palaver! It takes one click on my OE toolbar, and no need to
reset it when you move on to the next post.

And what would you suggest for someone using a text-only account with
a DOS-based terminal emulator to read his email with Pine (partly
because he wouldn't touch OE with a 3.048 metre resident of Warsaw)?

At least I got a mention in the Pine FAQ.

I can also flip to other character sets such as KOI8-R or CP1251[0]
to try to learn Russian by reading[1] Russian spam and flip back and
forth between CP437 (the built-in IBM PC character set) and CP1252
(the Windows superset of ISO-8859-1) to handle posts with those
characters sets.

[0] I haven't encountered ISO-8859-5 yet.
[1] with a dictionary.

 

[Ant]

And what would you suggest for someone using a text-only account with
a DOS-based terminal emulator to read his email with Pine

Upgrade your account/software ?

(partly
because he wouldn't touch OE with a 3.048 metre resident of Warsaw)?

OE is fine when you understand (and deal with) its shortcomings.

At least I got a mention in the Pine FAQ.
Yay!

I can also flip to other character sets such as KOI8-R or CP1251[0]
to try to learn Russian by reading[1] Russian spam and flip back and
forth between CP437 (the built-in IBM PC character set) and CP1252
(the Windows superset of ISO-8859-1) to handle posts with those
characters sets.

OE can also do that. If the language used in Russian spam is anything
like that used in English spam, I wouldn't count on learning much from
it!

[0] I haven't encountered ISO-8859-5 yet.
[1] with a dictionary.

 

[Dustin Cook]

Upgrade your account/software ?

Erm.. Sounds like he has a shell account. Very nice things to
have...

Pine is also a nice text based email client.

OE is fine when you understand (and deal with) its shortcomings.

OE is horrible. It setup the way for people to email with html instead
of plain text, as has always been. Not everybody's clients can parse
oddball fonts, cute graphics, etc... things which don't belong in
email.


Regards,
Dustin Cook
http://bughunter.atspace.org

 

[Ant]

Erm.. Sounds like he has a shell account.
Yes.

Very nice things to have...

I'm sure they are, but it appears to limit his internet access.

Pine is also a nice text based email client.


OE is horrible. It setup the way for people to email with html
instead of plain text, as has always been.

One of the first things to configure.

Not everybody's clients can parse oddball fonts, cute graphics,
etc... things which don't belong in email.

Some people like rich-content email, and they're welcome to it.
Personally, I prefer plain-text.

 

[kurt wismer]

Yes.

not necessarily...

I'm sure they are, but it appears to limit his internet access.

which should be a clue that it probably isn't a shell account...

if chebucto is anything like torfree.net was, then it's not exactly a
shell account... at torfree.net we were also limited to pine for email,
lynx for web browsing, and for news we used tin, but we were logging
into a kind of bbs application running on a *nix server with a console
based menu from which to launch those tools as well as access various
pieces of information the people in charge thought was important...

on the other hand, i seem to recall norman expressing concerns about
accessibility to those with visual impairments... if he himself has such
an impairment, those types of tools are far better for use with text to
speech programs than would be the graphical equivalents we're used to...
it could also be that chebucto as an organization is just very concerned
about that kind of accessibility - torfree.net was certainly concerned
with providing access that was 'usable' by the widest possible segment
of the population...