News from PANUG - September 13, 2001
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SCAMS

Two Internet-related scams are of interest. We know that
you would probably not fall for these scams but you may
have family or friends that would. There are spammers
sending out messages asking you to contribute to
emergency relief funds for victimes of Tuesday's disaster
but refer you to their web sites where they steal both
your money and credit card numbers.

There seems to be a resurgence of the famous Nigeria scam.
In the unlikely event that you've not heard of this scam,
it's one where you receive an email message asking you to
help in moving a sum of money out of Nigeria into a joint
account for which you'll be paid a commission in the
millions of dollars. The scam is that they withdraw your
money from the account.

Here's the first portion of one of these messages:

 From: Alhaji Ademola Musa 
 Subject: URGENT ASSISTANCE
 To: alh_ademolamusa@yahoo.com

 ALHAJI ADEMOLA MUSA
 Tel/Fax: 234 1 2882557

 LAGOS NIGERIA.
 ATTN.: THE MANAGING DIRECTOR / CEO.

 Dear Sir,

 REQUEST FOR URGENT (CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP
 OF THE TRANSFER OF US$18,560,000.00 (EIGHTEEN MILLION,
 FIVE HUNDRED AND SIXTY THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS
 ONLY).



HP SECURE LINUX

Bruce Yatvin points out the following article that
announces a security-enhanced version of Linux that
has been developed by HP that sells for $3000 per
system.

http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/08/23/new.linux.os.idg/

Some people report that their companies do not allow them
to deploy Linux because Linux is normally free and,
consequently, their management thinks of it as low-quality
Shareware. HP's Linux offering can be used to dispel this
myth. You can tell your boss that high-end Linux software
sells for $3000 but your applications can get by with the
standard Linux which sells for far less.


GROUPWISE SECURITY FIX PROBLEMS?

Bruce Yatvin says that he's heard that the "hit the road"
function of the GW client was affected by the Padlock fix
and asks if anyone knows more about this.

You can contact Bruce at yatvinb@ohsu.edu


FEEDBACK
Cory Hook responds to the article LONG TERM DATA STORAGE
written by Ed Sawicki published here a few weeks ago:

This is an interesting article. I, too, have had similar
problems formatting disks on Windows 2000 and even NT4.0.
Surprisingly, though, I don't have the same problem if I
boot up a DOS machine and format the disks. I had always
attributed it to a consistent error in my install
procedures. Perhaps it is just one of the "feature
upgrades" of the newer OSes.

TRAINING CLASSES

Due to conflicts with the Portland Itec show and a
Microsoft/Intel event, the PANUG-hosted training classes
on DNS and Firewalls have been moved to the second
week in October. As son as we have confirmation of venue,
well post the new dates.