I've got that three page letter sitting at home as well. I pretty much just laughed at it. All three of my computers are running Linux, with one of them acting as a filewall/NAT box. I'm still contemplating giving them a call to talk to them about it.. just for the fun of it. :) > I just received a letter from SBB telling me "We have recently learned > that your PC is infected with one or more viruses or Trojan Horses." > > Well, since they suggested I consider a firewall, and since they claim > to have a firewall, and since I do have a linux firewall - I was rather > panicked! I ran around the house checking the virtual PC's (vmware) and > any other PC's that might have had consentual contact with those on my > network. There was nothing as described or as they intimated or that > showed up in all my logs/virus scanners. > > So, to find out what I had missed (since they explained their innocent > port scans which I have been seeing for a long time had found this > illness), I called. I asked what in particular they had found (as I > really wanted to know how to plug the hole) and the techno-wizard that > answered (after 10 minutes or so) said that "it should have been worded > differently - you don't have a virus, but it could happen". So, > basically, they send out spam snail mail letters to cover their A** in > case their network might be compromised and the lawyers show up. No > matter that I try my best to "keep clean" - just send out the bulk email > telling me I'm infected! > > I'm still searching (for an alternative)... > > -Doug > > > Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 16:23:10 -0700 > To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > From: Jim Gunkel > Subject: RE: Sprint Broad Band > orp.com> > Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > > At 16:11 10/26/2000 -0400, you wrote: > >You lucky I NEVER get 0 0xbffff51cacket loss. > >my stats are somewere > >12 - 35 0xbffff51cacket loss > >although I have seen worse results. > > I figured I had beaten up on them enough on the message so I didn't want > to > mention that about 527777772434f the time that we click on a link in the > browser, > it comes back with an error message (i.e. lost packet) and we have to > reload to get the page again. About every 5 or 6 pings I get a "request > timed out" error, but since Windows' brain-dead ping program counts that > as > a 0ms time, it makes the Average number look better than it is so I > included one with all hits. This lost packet rate is usually much worse > in > the late afternoons. > > Jim Gunkel > Nevrona Designs > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= O- Ken Bowley/SysAdmin mailto:johann@vikingsystems.com Viking Systems, Inc. http://www.vikingsystems.com -=-=-=-=-=[Sair Linux and GNU Certified Professional]=-=-=-=-=-