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There are 8 messages totalling 288 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. the perfect follow
2. Fixing Virus from Tango-L
3. Robert Duvall
4. Virus WARNING !!! (2)
5. Tango in West L.A. and San Fernado Valley
6. Want to know Susana Miller workshop in New York city, 6/25 -- 6/27
7. Tango Travels: Geneva, Lausanne, London
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 10:18:11 +0200
From: Alexis Cousein <al @BRUSSELS.SGI.COM>
Subject: Re: the perfect follow
kathleen kreher wrote:
> I need to see that his leg is sticking out,
> expecting me to produce a gancho.
If you don't *feel* that leg (and the upper side of it, in particular),
wanting to insert a gancho there is a deliberate attempt to wound. Well,
serves him right ;).
--
<standard disclaimer: these are my personal views, not SGI's>
Alexis Cousein al @brussels.sgi.com
Systems Engineer SGI Belgium
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 04:02:28 -0500
From: Bob Dronski <bob @TANGONADAMAS.COM>
Subject: Fixing Virus from Tango-L
To those who got infected with the happy99.exe virus--
Don't worry. You should be able to fix it relatively easily. The
following is copied from the current virus list from Norton Anti-VIrus
This worm modifies WSOCK32.DLL to send itself as an
attachment when a posting is made to USENET or MAIL. Delete
SKA.EXE and SKA.DLL in WINDOWS\SYSTEM folder and replace
WSOCK32.DLL with WSOCK32.SKA in WINDOWS\SYSTEM
folder.
If you have trouble deleting wsock32.dll because it is in use (like I
did) simply do a 95/98 shutdown and choose "Restart the
computer in DOS mode. Then you should be able to delete the file
from the DOS prompt
1) type CD \WINDOWS\SYSTEM (or the proper directory if it's
somewhere else)
2) type DEL WSOCK32.DLL
3) type REN WSOCK32.SKA WSOCK32.DLL
That's it! Hopefully, not too many people will have to do this.
I've tested my system and everything now seems clean.
Obviously, if by any chance I am still infected and there is an
attachment to this file, BY NO MEANS OPEN IT!!! (But we're not
as stupid as I was to open the file in the first place, are we? ;-)
Good luck!
Chico
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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 09:00:00 -0400
From: Michael Ditkoff <Michael.B.Ditkoff @USDOJ.GOV>
Subject: Robert Duvall
Ninel @latinmail wanted to know about Robert Duvall. Yes, he
likes to tango. He danced at the White House when the
president of Argentina came to town.
He's associated with the Tango Academy, which I think is part
of the Argentine Embassy.
The Argentine Embassy's address is
1600 New Hampshire Avenue, NW
Washington, DC (don't know the ZIP)
(202) 939-6400
Hope this helps.
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 09:26:45 -0400
From: danny waggoner <dwag @MINDSPRING.COM>
Subject: Re: Virus WARNING !!!
This warning is very real - not one of the hoaxes sometimes passed along in
this list - But if you are unfortunate enough to have run the executable
file before you got a warning, the following is an excerpt from one of the
sites which contain info on manually removing virus files and repairing your
Windows operating system **IF** you ran the Happy99.exe file in Enrico
Massetti's message. You should be able to repair the damage without the
necessity of reformatting your hard drive
As stated in the body - You will not get infected by Happy99 merely by
downloading the trojan file. You will have to execute it to get infected. IF
YOU HAVE NOT RUN IT - DELETE IT NOW!! - usually you will see a cheesy little
fireworks animation if you run it - if you've seen that, you've got it!
This is not an endorsement of the software company - this is only one of a
number of sites with info on the Happy99 virus (or worm) program, and how to
manually repair the damage.
Good luck, Danny Waggoner
>From Proland Software at their website:
http://www.pspl.com/trojan_info/win32/happy99.htm
Happy99 is a Win32 based Trojan program. When this program is executed it
will display some fireworks. Apart from the fireworks display this program
will do some other activity in the background without the user's permission.
In the background this program will create two files SKA.EXE and SKA.DLL. It
will alter WSOCK32.DLL to put its code into that file and keep the original
file as WSOCK32.SKA. It can not modify the WSOCK32.DLL file if it is in use.
In such a case this program will add an entry to the Windows Registry to run
SKA.EXE the next time the computer is booted so that it can do these
modifications. The size of this trojan file is 10000 bytes.
You will not get infected by Happy99 merely by downloading the trojan file.
You will have to execute it to get infected.
The modified WSOCK32.DLL has routines to detect the email and newsgroup
postings made by the user. It will send a copy of the SKA.EXE file renamed
as happy99.exe to every user or newsgroup to whom the user has sends an
email. Each recipient will get the email only once and the trojan will not
send repeat email to the same user. It will send a separate email retaining
the subject of the first email with the file as an attachment. The trojan
also maintains the file LISTE.SKA which contains the list of all email
addresses and newsgroups to which this file has been sent. The unique
function of this trojan is that it can spread on its own.
Happy99 first appeared in January 1999 and it is reported to have affected a
lot of users.
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 09:26:19 -0500
From: "Locke, David" <dlocke @BINDVIEW.COM>
Subject: Tango in West L.A. and San Fernado Valley
Please send me any information that you might have on Tango opportuinities
in West L.A. and the San Fernando Valley from July 14 through July 28.
Thanks.
David Locke
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 12:47:22 -0400
From: Asta Chen <Asta_Chen @HARVARDPILGRIM.ORG>
Subject: Want to know Susana Miller workshop in New York city, 6/25 -- 6/27
Hola Tango friends,
Susana Miller was here in Boston 3 weeks ago. Me and my some other tango friends
enjoy to have workshop with her.
Now, I heard that Susana is going to be in New York city to teach from 6/25
--6/27. Can some one tell me what exactly the workshop schedule, where is the
place and what is the price?
Also, me and my tango friends in Boston would like to know where we can go for
Milonga and outdoor Tango in between 6/25 --6/27.
Any information is appreciated and many thanks to you.
Asta Chen
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 19:16:58 +0200
From: Nitin Kibe <NKibe @IFC.ORG>
Subject: Tango Travels: Geneva, Lausanne, London
Greetings, List.
Work took me to Geneva for two weeks and then allowed me to spend Saturday night
in London. It was great fun to dance in new locations, listen to new music, see
new faces and experience life in a new community, language barriers and all.
Some brief impressions.
Geneva has something on almost every night of the week. I found Arquebuse on
Thursday evenings the most interesting place . This event, free, is held in an
apartment in a "squat" -- a building which has been legally abandoned or
something similar. A connecting wall between two rooms has been demolished,
large mirrors lean against the walls and lit candles are placed at their bases
in groups of three and five. The music was good: on my second visit, a visiting
bandeonist and guitarist played (there was an impromptu colllection later). On
Friday evenings is a milonga at Kap Danse, a local studio, big new floor, good
music. As luck would have it, Ricrardo from Rosario did a milonga workshop over
the weekend in Geneva, while Cacho did another workshop in Lausanne.
Of the two regular events in Lausanne, I could visit only the one organised by
Alegria at the Centro Chileno, a restaurant/bar with a dance floor. Nice
turnout. Just remember that when you come out of Lausanne train station, you
take the metro, which is not a bus or a trolley or an underground/tube/subway
but (this being Switzerland) is a funicular. The milonga ends at 12.00 and the
last train back to Geneva (a 45 minute ride) is at 12.45 am.
Saturday night in London was organised by El Once Club del Tango at the Warren
Bar in the Grafton Hotel, 130 Tottenham Court Road, a short distance away from
the old location at the Central Club Hotel on Great Russell Street. The bar is
large, but rectangular, narrow and long. There is a class before that. Large
turnout (150-200+) and very lively but a little crowded for the space. The event
ended at 1 a.m., so public transport back to my airport hotel at Heathrow was
limited: either all night buses on some routes, black taxis (not very many
around) or mini cabs (have someone call one if you are a visitor). A couple,
visiting dancers from Tango Pasion, performed too.
Back to life in Washington DC now....
Regards to all.
Nitin Kibe
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 10:24:27 -0700
From: JC Dill <tango @VO.CNCHOST.COM>
Subject: Re: Virus WARNING !!!
On 09:26 AM 6/21/99 -0400, danny waggoner wrote:
>This warning is very real - not one of the hoaxes sometimes passed along in
>this list - But if you are unfortunate enough to have run the executable
>file before you got a warning,
What is "unfortunate" is that so many people are getting on the Internet
without first getting educated about how the Internet, and their software,
work. Secondly, the software vendors (mainly Microsoft) are delivering
their software in "easy to use" configurations that are VERY dangerous to
the user, and unless you take steps to educate yourself on why this is so
dangerous you will A) become accustomed to using software thusly configured
(which makes changing to a safer system harder), and B) eventually contract
a virus because your software configuration left you wide open. When that
happens, you will only have yourself to blame because you didn't take the
time to educate yourself before you got yourself into danger. ObDance:
This is like going to a milonga and just walking out onto the floor and
trying to ape what other people are doing, rather than taking dancing
lessons. You won't learn how to dance correctly, and you will get into
trouble, yes?
So...
Do NOT, EVER, open any executable files that you have received that you
didn't *explicitly* request the sender send to you. Most of the recent
viruses have been spread via email attachments, and activated by people
running those attachments, usually running them automatically. Make sure
your email software doesn't automatically open ANY attachments for you.
Sure, this makes opening an attachment a bit more of a bother... it's like
unlocking your front door to get inside when you get home. It would be
less bother to just leave your door unlocked, until the day you come home
and your belongings are gone. Lock your front door, and make sure that
your software will never automatically run any email attachments. And just
as you don't let just any stranger into your house, so you should also not
open an attachment that you didn't explicitly expect to receive. If there
is any doubt, email back to the sender and verify that they *meant* to send
you the attachment, BEFORE you open it to "see what it is".
HTH
jc
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