Subject: MYSTARA-L Digest - 22 Aug 2003 to 23 Aug 2003 (#2003-207) From: Automatic digest processor Date: 24/08/2003, 17:00 To: Recipients of MYSTARA-L digests Reply-to: Mystara RPG Discussion There are 3 messages totalling 146 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. web design update for mystara site 2. danger for any MML member. Geoff should take actions (2) ******************************************************************** 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: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 03:08:42 -0700 From: Joaquin Menchaca Subject: web design update for mystara site Hi, I have experimenting with some web tricks I gleamed from these Japanese books I bought in Shibuya. They are pretty cool. I have been nudging the design a little, and I wondered what you guys think. The initial splash page has the new design: http://www.realmspace.com/rpg/ If anyone is running a web browser that supports web standards, such as Mozilla, Mozilla Firebird, or Netscape 7, or Opera, they can check out the added feature of clicking on the heading and having the sections collaspe. I hope the end result of all this effort is a design that is more attractive, intuitive, and useful. I'm going to add this to other pages for Mystara as well. - Joaquin __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 16:45:57 +0200 From: DM Subject: Re: danger for any MML member. Geoff should take actions At Thu, 21 Aug 2003 11:03:27 +0100, Colin Davidson wrote: > Note that the 'from' part of emails that contain this virus is usually > falsified, the worm can get hold of emails from a range of files stored on > your computer and send itself out with as if from any of those. As a result > a -lot- of people are getting notifications from automated email response > thingies telling them that they're virussed when they're not. That said, > check to see if you have this one anyway! and Daniel Mayer added: > As far as I know, the Sobig-F uses the adress-book of the infected PC. > It picks one of them as "sender" and sends the virus to everyone else in > the book... > I got those 26 virus-mails not as notifications but as spread virus > itself (those nice little attachments...). everyone of it was sent by > foreign people to me. Because I never used this email-address for > "foreign"-contact except the two D&D-Lists, I'm quite sure of the origin. > The notifications you speak of are most of the time "hoaxes"...... and > I'm proud to be contacted by everyone existing.... :) Actually I checked the two PCs I use (home & work) to send my mails with the anti-Sobig utility provided by Norton and they both were pure like babies. No sign of Sobig virus (which is clearly responsible for this spamming) on either of the two. The weird thing is that I normally use Eudora to check mail at home (which doesn't automatically open attachements), while I use a web-based browser when I'm at work, thus avoiding to download anything on the HD (just reading the emails on the server) to keep safer from viruses. When I checked the time the bounced emails were said to have been sent by me, I found out two strange things: 1. the system used was Outlook Express (an email program I NEVER use for my emails) 2. the sending time was around 14.00/15.00 my time (13/14 GMT), exactly when I was at work! So it was impossible for me to have used my Eudora program at home (and my PC is not known for auto-activating by itself and auto-connecting the cable to the telephone plug.. unless it became possessed by a net-demon ;p). It is likewise impossible the messages were sent from the web-program I use, first because I wasn't using it (I wasn't logged on any Internet browser) at that time and second because it needs my confirmation before sending ANY emails. Now, this means the header of the sender is clearly a fake, but then my question is: where did it take MY email address if it wasn't originated by my email program? Couldn't it be that the MML server got this virus and is now spreading it to all of its subscribers? Any idea how to check for this possibility? Hope this problem is solved soon, cause it's getting annoying, even with all the filters I use! DM Senior Editor of the Mystaran Almanac Lt. Cmdr. of U.S.S. Unicorn "You don't stop playing because you grow old: you grow old because you stop playing!" Visit Marco's Mystara Homepage at: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Dungeon/2967 And Mystara Italian Homepage at: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Dungeon/9940 Join the Mystara Webring at: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Dungeon/2967/mystring.html Join the Starfleet Academy at: http://gioco.net/startrek (Italian RPG PBEM) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 23:36:39 +0100 From: Mark Alexander Bertenshaw Subject: Re: danger for any MML member. Geoff should take actions ----- Original Message ----- From: "DM" To: Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 3:45 PM Subject: Re: [MYSTARA] danger for any MML member. Geoff should take actions > > Now, this means the header of the sender is clearly a fake, but then my > question is: where did it take MY email address if it wasn't originated by > my email program? Couldn't it be that the MML server got this virus and is > now spreading it to all of its subscribers? Any idea how to check for this > possibility? > From what I have heard, the Sobig virus actually has its own email client built into the attachment!! -- Mark Alexander Bertenshaw Kingston upon Thames UK ------------------------------ End of MYSTARA-L Digest - 22 Aug 2003 to 23 Aug 2003 (#2003-207) ****************************************************************