Re: TI-H: Re: ti-emu: Re: A92: IMPORTANT: YAHOO VIRUS

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Subject: Re: TI-H: Re: ti-emu: Re: A92: IMPORTANT: YAHOO VIRUS
From: "Jan Zumwalt, Engineer: Computer Information Systems" <zumwalt@alaska.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 15:56:13 -0900
Reply-To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org


Thanks to both of you for providing the information. Rene, your advice is
nicly taken. We all have an obligation
to help those that have not learned our own experiances. That is why
mentoring is still the leading edicational
process.

It tickels me to see someone concerned about the infamous "e-mail" virus
kick up about twice a year. The
thing that I find humorous is that quite often the people that make the most
fun have themselves at one
time or another learned the hard way. Yet, they make no attempt to repay the
kindness that was bestowed
on them.

Thanks for helping him out in such a kind way.


>
>Grant Stockly wrote:
>>
>> The virus is a hoax.  True they hacked in, but no virus was implanted.
>>
>> >I just thought I'd let you all know:
>> >There may be a virus implanted into the Yahoo Search Engine.  I
>> >personally have no way to confirm this, however there was a warning
>> >message posted at my dad's work saying that some guy had implanted a
>> >virus into the engine and was currently using it as a threat (to release
>> >it) to get his friend out of jail.  This is all I know; I just thought
>> >you should all be warned in the event that this is true.
>> >
>> >For those of you on the TICalc.org mailing lists, I apologize for the
>> >multiple posts to all the lists, but I just wanted to make sure that you
>> >all saw this.  I'm also sorry since this is off topic!
>
>The following is en excerpt from Geekmedia<Geekmedia@aol.com>
>GeekMedia! Wednesday, December 10th, 1997
>
>--Begin quote--
>
>***
>Crackers broke into Yahoo [http://www.yahoo.com] Monday night and
>threatened
>mass destruction, but other than maybe a few thousand people seeing the
>hacked
>page, Yahoo's site was left untouched.
>
>"We have a monitoring system in place that immediately notified us that
>this
>had happened," Yahoo spokesperson Diane Hunt said. Yahoo took immediate
>action
>and restored the pages. No files were destroyed, and no computers
>outside of
>Yahoo were invaded. For security reasons, she would not reveal how the
>systems
>were invaded.
>
>***
>
>---End quote---
>
>In other words, keep calm, have a nice day :-)
>
>--
>          Rene Kragh Pedersen
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>What's up???
>Um, like it's the direction of increasing gravitational potential.
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