[Goldeneye]

Oh, okay...I hadn't posted anything because I thought maybe it was just me.  I haven't been able to get in all day, and it's really been screwy for the last several days.  And half the time when it's finally back up, I've missed a lot.  

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Good 'ol Pacman. It's reassuring to see your all consuming concern for your fellow man operating at such a peak.

sheber: Sure it's not personal, but all this means is several other people are being gyped out of a product they have paid for just like me.  Misery dosen't necessarily love company.

[Sencho]

Really Bypass, I don't think antagonizing Pac will solve anything.  It'll be fixed when it gets fixed.

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Well, it's been three days now that I get "authorization failed" from the member gallery, and my account is paid through December. Definitely getting annoying, enough to bring me out of lurking to complain...

Kant Tyrone Shulaces  

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I've also been unable to gain access to the members gallery for the last 3 days.  I know my account is paid thru mid-December.  I just hope that webmaster finds out what is going on soon?

mystery man  

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To All: Check yours PCs for viruses. As far as I remember, last week, just after the end of my visit of MG of BEA I've got a message from my "Norton Antivirus 2002" that my PC was infected by "MisCsex" Worm-virus. As far as I remember - this virus place itself into the program register of Windows, create the file "MisCsex.exe" in "X:/>/WINDOWS/SYSTEM" directory and interrupts the access to any applications. However these applications continue their work (only the work of old applications for Windows - created before 1996 - can be corrupted by this virus ) but all user's passwords and logins become known to someone, who programmed the virus for its activity (in reality, anyone can introduce his/her e-mail address into the structure of this virus and get the private information from infected PCs via e-mail). The second manifestation of this virus is a wrong calculation of the size of free place on PC HD.
Finally I was obliged to reinstall my current OS to eliminate all manifestations of this virus (In reality, I'm not sure that it can be correctly cured by "NA 2002").

[Imaginos]

Virus' and osama bitch laden...

one should stop **81** camels and the other is hignly unlikly to be gotten from the user gallery... you guess which is which  

A virus must be downloaded in a file and run. I have yet to see a virus that can be transported in a image file. the ususal case is in exe and com files and doc files. The usergallery doesnt dl anything to your computer unless you click on an image...besides the thumbnails so you can see the images.

I just looked for said file and it was not existant on my computer and I have been in the galleries within the same timeframe as Shadowcom.

So dont panic people, though regular virus scanning of systems.. and government officials is always a good idea.

Imaginos
Assistant Webmaster

[dkoster]

Seeing how I use AIX and Linux to access the site, I have no windows viruses at all.

Yet my paid-for membership (and others') still does not work.  I'd be inclined to guess that it was either poor webmastering, or, as I said before, solar radiation changing a bit or five.  (Really, solar flares do some really strange things to computers...ask any real sysadmin) We've had some doozies in the past few weeks.

Koz

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quote:Originally posted by Sencho:
Really Bypass, I don't think antagonizing Pac will solve anything.  It'll be fixed when it gets fixed.

That was meant in all good humor, Scencho. Pac, better than anyone knows, how much I appreciate his hard work.  I took his comment as a subtle joke.  My reply was intended to be of the same nature. Got to go. Bob and Tom's show is playing the infamous "Shirtless Girl"!

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To: Imaginos
You should also check your system for presence of the file "SirC32.exe" (its location is in the same directory - X:/>/WINDOWS/SYSTEM), because the previously pointed virus can also create the file with this filename (I had them both).
As concerning the viruses in graphic files, your opinion is wrong, - there were about 40 viruses, created between 1995 and 2001 (and about 6 viruses of this kind were created before 1995), which were available to infect graphic files and to "migrate", using these infected files. However, there were some visible modifications in code structure of these files - the beginnings and the ends of bodies of infected files were different of these ones of not-infected files. More detailed information about it can be obtained in "Kaspersky virus library" from "Kaspersky laboratory" at ((http://www.avp.ch)).
And don't forget about the flash-animations ! Now this field is very perspective for "techno-rats".  
Any binary file can be infected by virus, - the "viruses-free" are only the files, containing the plain text code only,- the single thing is to develop the modes of infection and of "migration" for these viruses.
PS: I'm not "[email protected]" - I just use his basical data from your database.