• sbbs318b.zip virus

    From Madgamerman@VERT to Digital Man on Tue Oct 13 15:34:48 2020
    Hi,

    I downloaded sbbs318b from synchro.net and Windows 10 is reporting it as a Trojan Win32/Zpevdo.B Is it safe?. Never had this issue before.

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  • From The Millionaire@VERT to Madgamerman on Tue Oct 13 15:42:10 2020
    Hi,

    I downloaded sbbs318b from synchro.net and Windows 10 is reporting it as a Trojan Win32/Zpevdo.B Is it safe?. Never had this issue before.


    That’s a first. Microsoft treats everything non-ms a virus it seems. It’s their new system now. They don’t like foreign programs.

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Madgamerman on Tue Oct 13 16:01:10 2020
    Re: sbbs318b.zip virus
    By: Madgamerman to Digital Man on Tue Oct 13 2020 11:34 am

    I downloaded sbbs318b from synchro.net and Windows 10 is reporting it as a Trojan Win32/Zpevdo.B Is it safe?. Never had this issue before.

    It's safe. I had Windows reporting a bunch of false positives when I was building and testing the v3.18b setup.exe. It seems their malware scanning is not so great these days.

    digital man

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  • From Madgamerman@VERT to Digital Man on Tue Oct 13 16:40:40 2020
    Re: sbbs318b.zip virus
    By: Digital Man to Madgamerman on Tue Oct 13 2020 12:01 pm

    It's safe. I had Windows reporting a bunch of false positives when I was building and testing the v3.18b setup.exe. It seems their malware scanning is not so great these days.

    Thanks.

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  • From The Millionaire@VERT to Digital Man on Tue Oct 13 17:44:43 2020
    Re: sbbs318b.zip virus
    By: Madgamerman to Digital Man on Tue Oct 13 2020 11:34 am

    It's safe. I had Windows reporting a bunch of false positives when I was building and testing the v3.18b setup.exe. It seems their malware scanning is not so great these days.

    digital man

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    I was going to say false positives also due to ms virus scanner. I know you’d never put a real virus in your bbs because it’s open source.

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  • From The Millionaire@VERT to Digital Man on Tue Oct 13 17:53:27 2020
    I was going to say false positives also due to ms virus scanner. I know you’d never put a real virus in your bbs because it’s open source.

    $ The Millionaire $

    ..."I'm board. Time to set up another Synchronet BBS."...


    Do you remember F-Prot in the olden days? I used to get the same problem with that one too.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to The Millionaire on Tue Oct 13 18:01:23 2020
    Re: sbbs318b.zip virus
    By: The Millionaire to Madgamerman on Tue Oct 13 2020 11:42 am

    That’s a first. Microsoft treats everything non-ms a virus it seems. It’s their new system now. They don’t like foreign programs.

    That hasn't been my experience. Also, an OS wouldn't be very popular without 3rd-party developers developing software for it..

    Nightfox

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  • From The Millionaire@VERT to Nightfox on Tue Oct 13 18:14:46 2020
    Re: sbbs318b.zip virus
    By: The Millionaire to Madgamerman on Tue Oct 13 2020 11:42 am

    That hasn't been my experience. Also, an OS wouldn't be very popular without 3rd-party developers developing software for it..

    Nightfox

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    I read this on some websites. Again, they could be anti-Microsoft.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to The Millionaire on Tue Oct 13 19:46:33 2020
    Re: sbbs318b.zip virus
    By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Tue Oct 13 2020 01:44 pm

    I was going to say false positives also due to ms virus scanner. I know you’d never put a real virus in your bbs because it’s open source.

    One time I was interviewing for a job, and the interviewer asked me what I thought of Linux. He said he trusted Microsoft & Windows because it's maintained by a relatively small team who are paid to develop it. And he thought that since Linux is open-source, that anyone could go in and put a virus or malware in it. He seemed like a Microsoft fanboy and probably didn't understand the Linux development process.. Linux is fairly widely used around the world, and my understanding is that code changes to Linux and GNU software is reviewed and controlled so that malware doesn't go into it.

    Nightfox

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  • From Mortifis@VERT/EPHRAM to The Millionaire on Wed Oct 14 17:17:49 2020
    I was going to say false positives also due to ms virus scanner. I know you'd never put a real virus in your bbs because it's open source.

    $ The Millionaire $

    ..."I'm board. Time to set up another Synchronet BBS."...


    Do you remember F-Prot in the olden days? I used to get the same problem with that one too.

    $ The Millionaire $

    I still use f-prot on my *nix systems

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  • From The Millionaire@VERT to Mortifis on Wed Oct 14 14:33:04 2020
    I still use f-prot on my *nix systems

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    I thought F-Prot went down many years ago. Did someone revive it?

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  • From Mortifis@VERT/EPHRAM to The Millionaire on Wed Oct 14 19:38:40 2020
    I still use f-prot on my *nix systems

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    I thought F-Prot went down many years ago. Did someone revive it?

    $ The Millionaire $

    It didn't "go down", however, End Of Sales date was Aug 1, 2020 and End Of Life is July 31, 2021. Perhaps F-Prot for Winbloz Sales ended a while ago but they are still providing signature updates on my *.deb. I'll have to check into that further. Thanks for reminding me!

    ~Mortifis

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  • From The Millionaire@VERT to Mortifis on Wed Oct 14 16:31:54 2020
    It didn't "go down", however, End Of Sales date was Aug 1, 2020 and End Of Life is July 31, 2021. Perhaps F-Prot for Winbloz Sales ended a while ago but they are still providing signature updates on my *.deb. I'll have to check into that further. Thanks for reminding me!

    ~Mortifis

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    I was talking about the DOS version. I think it went down January 5, 2006.

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  • From Mortifis@VERT/EPHRAM to The Millionaire on Wed Oct 14 21:06:17 2020
    TM > Do you remember F-Prot in the olden days? I used to get the same
    TM > problem with that one too.

    TM > $ The Millionaire $

    MO > I still use f-prot on my *nix systems

    TM > I thought F-Prot went down many years ago. Did someone revive it?

    MO > It didn't "go down", however, End Of Sales date was Aug 1, 2020 and End Of Life
    MO > is July 31, 2021. Perhaps F-Prot for Winbloz Sales ended a while ago but they
    MO > are still providing signature updates on my *.deb. I'll have to check into that
    MO > further. Thanks for reminding me!

    MO > ~Mortifis

    TM > I was talking about the DOS version. I think it went down January 5, 2006.

    Sorry, I didn't see a specific platform version refernce. I suppose 'in the olden days' could have been a clue, but, ya, anyway ... so, in the NOW, EOL for F-Prot is 07/31/20. Ya, just like SBBS, software devs moved on from DOS a looooooong time ago and is not likely to enter anyone's mind unless they are trying to get 16bit DOS doors running under something other than DOS (ie: qemu, freeDos, etc).

    ~Mortifis

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  • From The Millionaire@VERT to Mortifis on Wed Oct 14 17:49:37 2020
    Sorry, I didn't see a specific platform version refernce. I suppose 'in the olden days' could have been a clue, but, ya, anyway ... so, in the NOW, EOL for F-Prot is 07/31/20. Ya, just like SBBS, software devs moved on from DOS a looooooong time ago and is not likely to enter anyone's mind unless they are trying to get 16bit DOS doors running under something other than DOS (ie: qemu, freeDos, etc).

    ~Mortifis

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    DOS 6.22 was my favourite OS. It was quick to install and had a bbs running within minutes.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to The Millionaire on Wed Oct 14 19:03:40 2020
    Re: Re: sbbs318b.zip virus
    By: The Millionaire to Mortifis on Wed Oct 14 2020 01:49 pm

    DOS 6.22 was my favourite OS. It was quick to install and had a bbs running within minutes.

    I assume you mean MS-DOS 6.22? There were other companies that made DOS operating systems, not all of which had a 6.22 version.

    Nightfox

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  • From paulie420@VERT/BEERS20 to Nightfox on Thu Oct 15 00:37:00 2020
    DOS 6.22 was my favourite OS. It was quick to install and had a bbs running within minutes.

    I assume you mean MS-DOS 6.22? There were other companies that made DOS operati ng systems, not all of which had a 6.22 version.

    Nightfox

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  • From Sysop@VERT/SBBS to Madgamerman on Thu Feb 4 02:30:35 2021
    On Tue 17-Nov-2020 4:17a, Madgamerman@1:275/201.0 said to The Millionaire:

    That's a first. Microsoft treats everything non-ms a virus it seems.
    It's
    their new system now. They don't like foreign programs.

    Elimanating the competition. <g>

    Thats Microsoft for you.
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  • From Madgamerman@VERT to The Millionaire on Tue Nov 17 04:17:39 2020
    Re: sbbs318b.zip virus
    By: The Millionaire to Madgamerman on Tue Oct 13 2020 11:42 am

    That's a first. Microsoft treats everything non-ms a virus it seems. It's their new system now. They don't like foreign programs.

    Elimanating the competition. <g>

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  • From The Millionaire@VERT to Madgamerman on Thu Nov 26 12:32:11 2020
    Re: sbbs318b.zip virus
    By: The Millionaire to Madgamerman on Tue Oct 13 2020 11:42 am

    Elimanating the competition. <g>


    Remember MS was in court many times in the 90s over third party software.

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