Subject: MYSTARA-L Digest - 18 Aug 2003 to 19 Aug 2003 (#2003-203) From: Automatic digest processor Date: 20/08/2003, 17:00 To: Recipients of MYSTARA-L digests Reply-to: Mystara RPG Discussion There are 16 messages totalling 654 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Hackwurld of Mystaros? (8) 2. danger for any MML member. Geoff should take actions (7) 3. danger for any MML member and Hackworld ******************************************************************** The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp The Mystara Homepage: http://www.dnd.starflung.com/ To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 00:58:19 -0700 From: hammer_of_ulric Subject: Re: Hackwurld of Mystaros? And Mystara bites the dust. AGAIN! Sorry guys, but I think I'm giving up on ever seeing new Mystara material. With D20 Blackmoor about to hit the streets, I'll go play with the Egg instead. Hammer of Ulric ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 11:10:06 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Havard=20Faanes?= Subject: Re: Hackwurld of Mystaros? Awww :( Just a thought: Maybe Bruce Heard is interested...? Havard --- Geoff Gander skrev: > Marco wrote: > > >Any further information on the release date of the > Hackwurld of > >Mystaros?
> > I saw on the dragonsfoot.org forums that James had > to step down because > "real life reared its ugly head" (quoted from David > Kenzer). He goes > further to say that anyone interested in completing > the project should send > an email to Brian@kenzerco.com. > > Geoff > > -- > Geoff Gander, BA 97, MPA 02 > Carnifex Loremaster/Mad Roleplayer > Master of the Elemental Plane of Bureaucracy > au998@freenet.carleton.ca : > www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Realm/2091 > > ******************************************************************** > The Other Worlds Homepage: > http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp > The Mystara Homepage: http://www.dnd.starflung.com/ > To unsubscribe, send email to > LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM > with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message. > ______________________________________________________ Få den nye Yahoo! Messenger på http://no.messenger.yahoo.com/ Nye ikoner og bakgrunner, webkamera med superkvalitet og dobbelt så morsom ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 11:39:24 +0200 From: Giampaolo Agosta Subject: Re: Hackwurld of Mystaros? hammer_of_ulric wrote: > And Mystara bites the dust. > > AGAIN! > > Sorry guys, but I think I'm giving up on ever seeing new Mystara material. > > With D20 Blackmoor about to hit the streets, I'll go play with the Egg > instead. Even though it is sad to see Mystaros' project shipwreck this way, I wouldn't be that pessimistic on Mystara itself: I mean, it's not likely that we will se anything new for the setting, _but_ it has been that way since what, 1995? Yet we are here, and many of us still use the world for our games. I think that the current strength of Mystara lay more with the fans (us) than with any chance of being published -- I could point you tons of great fan stuff, starting from the Almanacs and all the way to the Tome of Mystara or the Mystara Map Navigator or OD&Dties and so on. Bye, -- Giampaolo Agosta http://digilander.iol.it/agathokles ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 11:12:06 +0100 From: Colin Davidson Subject: Re: Hackwurld of Mystaros? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Havard Faanes" To: Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 10:10 AM Subject: Re: [MYSTARA] Hackwurld of Mystaros? > Awww :( > > Just a thought: Maybe Bruce Heard is interested...? > THAT would be good... Anyone have his email address? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 14:43:07 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Havard=20Faanes?= Subject: Re: Hackwurld of Mystaros? --- Colin Davidson wrote: > > > Awww :( > > > > Just a thought: Maybe Bruce Heard is > interested...? > > > > THAT would be good... Anyone have his email address? I took the liberty of emailing Bruce, mentioning it. I'll let you all know if he writes back. Havard ______________________________________________________ Få den nye Yahoo! Messenger på http://no.messenger.yahoo.com/ Nye ikoner og bakgrunner, webkamera med superkvalitet og dobbelt så morsom ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 08:14:14 -0500 From: George Hrabovsky Subject: Re: Hackwurld of Mystaros? Actually, I talked to the guy in Milwaukee for the Gamesfest and am thinking about picking it up. George ----- Original Message ----- From: "Havard Faanes" To: Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 4:10 AM Subject: Re: [MYSTARA] Hackwurld of Mystaros? > Awww :( > > Just a thought: Maybe Bruce Heard is interested...? > > Havard > > > --- Geoff Gander skrev: > > Marco wrote: > > > > >Any further information on the release date of the > > Hackwurld of > > >Mystaros?
> > > > I saw on the dragonsfoot.org forums that James had > > to step down because > > "real life reared its ugly head" (quoted from David > > Kenzer). He goes > > further to say that anyone interested in completing > > the project should send > > an email to Brian@kenzerco.com. > > > > Geoff > > > > -- > > Geoff Gander, BA 97, MPA 02 > > Carnifex Loremaster/Mad Roleplayer > > Master of the Elemental Plane of Bureaucracy > > au998@freenet.carleton.ca : > > www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Realm/2091 > > > > > ******************************************************************** > > The Other Worlds Homepage: > > http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp > > The Mystara Homepage: http://www.dnd.starflung.com/ > > To unsubscribe, send email to > > LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM > > with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message. > > > > ______________________________________________________ > Få den nye Yahoo! Messenger på http://no.messenger.yahoo.com/ > Nye ikoner og bakgrunner, webkamera med superkvalitet og dobbelt så morsom > > ******************************************************************** > The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp > The Mystara Homepage: http://www.dnd.starflung.com/ > To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM > with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message. > > ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 00:24:25 +0200 From: Thibault SARLAT Subject: danger for any MML member. Geoff should take actions hello everyone. I've received very suspect mails from many members of the MML. They have al= most the same size (99 to 103 ko) and have at least an attached file. It se= ems that this is how the MSBLASTER virus is spreading. I urge you all to seek the patch at microsoft to avoid spreading it anymore= . This virus is able (it seems ) to send itself to any mail address in your a= ddress book so be cautious. I hope you'll all be able to clean your systems= very soon, since it took me about two hours to get rid of it on my fianc= =E9e computer. Yours, Thibault Sarlat ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 17:52:26 -0500 From: Stone Marshall Subject: Re: danger for any MML member and Hackworld



One of the nice things about this message list is knowing that NO attached files are allowed.
I also have this email address selected so that ONLY messages from the MML can get to this inbox. Not that this would work for everyone but it is very nice to have my Mystara messages all together, in order, and no spam mixed in with the emails. My advice to people on this list would be to have a private email just for the list.
 
On the subject of Hackworld. It really sux that I was getting all excited about this release. Having recently moved on to 3.5(never got the 3.0 books) I was looking forward to using the book as a reference for Mystara. I hope someone will take up the challenge of finishing the project.
 
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>hello everyone.

>I've received very suspect mails from many members of the MML. They have almost the same size (99 to 103 ko) and have at least an attached file. It seems that this is how the MSBLASTER virus is spreading.
>I urge you all to seek the patch at microsoft to avoid spreading it anymore.
>This virus is able (it seems ) to send itself to any mail address in your address book so be cautious. I hope you'll all be able to clean your systems very soon, since it took me about two hours to get rid of it on my fiancée computer.
>
>Yours,
>
>Thibault Sarlat
>
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MSN 8: Get 6 months for $9.95/month. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 16:11:07 -0700 From: Tech Support FaenWorks Subject: Re: danger for any MML member. Geoff should take actions Hey there All~~ In regards to the MSBlaster thing:: I know that I got the virus on the 11th of August on a computer not attached to this list... Just clarifying that bit to assure that I wasn't accidentally infecting all y'all Aside from that though, I've read the way that the MSBlaster works and it's alittle more hazardous than using email. It actually just attacks random ip addresses and ends up quickly infecting small LANs because of the fact that once any one of the group has it, it becomes very easy to select ips in the ssame LAN. moving on though, OTHER viruses do infact spread through email, but MSBlaster I don't think has anyproblems with this. (correct me if I'm wrong). and remember to NEVER open executables in emails. anyway, I figured Furthermore, Thibault~~ Regarding your fiancees computer, you may have fixed the problem, but then again, you may have just covered up the signs... the patch on microsoft.com only helps to innoculate your computer from the effects of MSBlast. ie, so it won't auto-shutdown. it may still exist and be infecting other computers. Check in your registry(start menu::Run:: regedit), search for msblast and something looking like autoupdate msblast... delete that thing. You might have already done this, but if you didn't it can still go haywire. I know the other computer that I was running had kept on running the virus without my knowledge infecting alot of people(presumably). I think it had tried something like 4 billion ips before my network admin had seen the increased activity and blocked my comp from the network. Luckily I fixed the problem as soon as I realized it. symantec has decent instructions for dealing with this problem and if you can you should try going to www.norton.com , they've got a link from the front page. Right then.. Cheers Patrick Newnan ___________________ Patrick J D Newnan FaenWorks www.faenworks.com Gaming Utilities by Gamers for Gamers ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 11:09:54 +1200 From: Chris Furneaux Subject: Re: danger for any MML member. Geoff should take actions Quoting Thibault SARLAT : > hello everyone. > I've received very suspect mails from many members of the MML. They have > almost the same size (99 to 103 ko) and have at least an attached file. > It seems that this is how the MSBLASTER virus is spreading. > I urge you all to seek the patch at microsoft to avoid spreading it > anymore. > This virus is able (it seems ) to send itself to any mail address in > your address book so be cautious. I hope you'll all be able to clean > your systems very soon, since it took me about two hours to get rid of > it on my fiancée computer. Well I got about 20 this morning so I recon that someone on the list might be infected if thib is getting mails too. I'm pretty sure the mails I've got this morning are of the W32.Sobig.F@mm variety. if you want to know more symantec has the low down: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sobig.f@mm.html So I don't think it is the blaster but something else. (btw, if you were running a decent firewall the blaster was harmless) More interestingly I seem to be getting bounced messages that I didn't send from addresses I don't know. It seems that some of the mail systems have got my address as the sender when it had nothing to do with me bar something somewhere attaching my address to it. As I would rather not have my address broadcast across the internet like that the sooner the virus is gone the better. If anyone else has noticed a similar phenomenon of bouced e-mail they didn't send I would like to know. Chris. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:56:11 EDT From: Wizards Shopper Subject: Re: danger for any MML member. Geoff should take actions In a message dated 8/19/2003 7:16:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time, c_furneaux@PARADISE.NET.NZ writes: > More interestingly I seem to be getting bounced messages that I didn't send > from addresses I don't know. It seems that some of the mail systems have got > my > address as the sender when it had nothing to do with me bar something > somewhere > attaching my address to it. > > As I would rather not have my address broadcast across the internet like > that > the sooner the virus is gone the better. If anyone else has noticed a > similar > phenomenon of bouced e-mail they didn't send I would like to know. > > Chris. I also have been seeing this...my address attached to bounced messages. Clay ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 11:57:39 +1200 From: Chris Furneaux Subject: Re: Hackwurld of Mystaros? Quoting Geoff Gander : > Marco wrote: > > >Any further information on the release date of the Hackwurld of > >Mystaros?
Kenzerco releases say October. So two months late by the looks of it: http://www.kenzerco.com/releases.php?PHPSESSID=f0ac209b9aabe764414048add2c7d5a7 > I saw on the dragonsfoot.org forums that James had to step down because > "real life reared its ugly head" (quoted from David Kenzer). He goes > further to say that anyone interested in completing the project should > send an email to Brian@kenzerco.com. Thats interesting. I would have thought that we would have heard from james if that was the case, don't you? Last he said to the list was that he had about 2,000,000 words to condence into about 250,000. So the puzzle is this, it's still due for release so who is working on it? Chris. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:17:46 +1200 From: Chris Furneaux Subject: Re: Hackwurld of Mystaros? > So the puzzle is this, it's still due for release so who is working on it? Found some more info: http://www.kenzerco.com/forums/showflat.php? Cat=&Board=HMGeneral&Number=281650&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1 > From that forum: > Help needed: Mystaros freelancer cannot complete! : > > To all those interested in Mystaros, our esteemed freelancer has had real > life rear its ugly head and he was forced to admit defeat and bail from the > project. So, we're looking for someone to pick up the torch and carry it > forth. We'd prefer an experienced writer. Please contact Brian@kenzerco.com > if you're interested. > > David_S_Kenzer > KenzerCo Staff Posted 08/11/03 09:01 AM so it's a very recent anouncement. This means that they still want to see it done, but they need help and doesn't say how much is done. Oh well, Chris. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 03:19:37 +0000 From: kevin wyton Subject: Re: danger for any MML member. Geoff should take actions > From: Chris Furneaux > Reply-To: Mystara RPG Discussion > To: MYSTARA-L@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM > Subject: Re: [MYSTARA] danger for any MML member. Geoff should take actions > Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 11:09:54 +1200 > >> > Well I got about 20 this morning so I recon that someone on the list might > be > infected if thib is getting mails too. > > I'm pretty sure the mails I've got this morning are of the W32.Sobig.F@mm > variety. if you want to know more symantec has the low down: > > http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sobig.f@mm.html > > So I don't think it is the blaster but something else. (btw, if you were > running a decent firewall the blaster was harmless) > > More interestingly I seem to be getting bounced messages that I didn't send > from addresses I don't know. It seems that some of the mail systems have > got my > address as the sender when it had nothing to do with me bar something > somewhere > attaching my address to it. > > As I would rather not have my address broadcast across the internet like > that > the sooner the virus is gone the better. If anyone else has noticed a > similar > phenomenon of bouced e-mail they didn't send I would like to know. > > Chris. I received a bounced email in my junk mail today, like you, to an address I don't recognize. I will be running a complete scan with Norton tonight I will post if it comes up with something. Hmmm perhaps anyone else getting the same thing should make note of the pertinent details of the bounced mail and we all can compare notes and find out where this thing came from. Talkatya Kev > > ******************************************************************** > The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp > The Mystara Homepage: http://www.dnd.starflung.com/ > To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM > with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message. > _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 06:52:23 +0200 From: Jacob Skytte Subject: Re: danger for any MML member. Geoff should take actions kevin wyton wrote: > >From: Chris Furneaux > >More interestingly I seem to be getting bounced messages that I = didn't send > >from addresses I don't know. It seems that some of the mail systems = have > >got my > >address as the sender when it had nothing to do with me bar something > >somewhere > >attaching my address to it. > > > >As I would rather not have my address broadcast across the internet = like > >that > >the sooner the virus is gone the better. If anyone else has noticed a > >similar > >phenomenon of bouced e-mail they didn't send I would like to know. > > > >Chris. > =20 > I received a bounced email in my junk mail today, like you, to an = address I > don't recognize. I will be running a complete scan with Norton tonight = I > will post if it comes up with something. > =20 > Hmmm perhaps anyone else getting the same thing should make note of = the > pertinent details of the bounced mail and we all can compare notes and = find > out where this thing came from. I got a couple of those too, but my spam filter caught them, and I = didn't look at them closely after that. Jacob Skytte scythe@wanadoo.dk ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 08:28:49 +0300 From: Eyal Fleminger Subject: Re: danger for any MML member. Geoff should take actions I've been having the same problem. Got at least 4 such "mailed undelivered" messages today. Eyal -----Original Message----- From: Mystara RPG Discussion [mailto:MYSTARA-L@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM] On Behalf Of Chris Furneaux Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 2:10 To: MYSTARA-L@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM Subject: Re: [MYSTARA] danger for any MML member. Geoff should take actions Quoting Thibault SARLAT : More interestingly I seem to be getting bounced messages that I didn't send from addresses I don't know. It seems that some of the mail systems have got my address as the sender when it had nothing to do with me bar something somewhere attaching my address to it. As I would rather not have my address broadcast across the internet like that the sooner the virus is gone the better. If anyone else has noticed a similar phenomenon of bouced e-mail they didn't send I would like to know. Chris. ******************************************************************** The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp The Mystara Homepage: http://www.dnd.starflung.com/ To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message. ------------------------------ End of MYSTARA-L Digest - 18 Aug 2003 to 19 Aug 2003 (#2003-203) ****************************************************************