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From: "Nikoli A. McCracken" <>
Subject: Re: [MCCRACKEN] Cecil County,Md. WARNING - FORWARD TO ALL MCCRACKENS
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 08:09:41 -0800
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Dear Mr. McCracken:
I do have my Norton Updates current, and I'm fanatic about it. I also keep
up-to-date with all the patches and updates from Microsoft, and I check for
new downloads from them twice a week. In addition, my
server has a large firewall, too. My filters are set at a very high level,
just enough so that I can still handle
my online banking, but blocking anything else. Yet, from time to time, some
malignant hacker figures
out a new way to beat all the safeguards, and piggyback a virus onto
innocent messages from people
with which you or I wish to correspond. I have the feeling that if these
dodos put half as much effort
into hiring out as ANTI-hackers, they could all be millionaires, very
shortly! I live in rural Nevada, and
even here, our entire network is being slowed down because not all our
server's customers take the
appropriate safeguards, or know how to.
After I sent you that first warning message, I received one more of the
virus-laden messages, and took
the steps shown below to get rid of it.
My son lives in San Francisco, is very intelligent with computers himself,
and managed to track one virus
back to Taiwan! He said he WISHED he knew how to hack, so he could FLAME the
+_)(*&^%$#@
person! My son is good enough that he built his first computer from garage
sales. Of course, in Silicon
Valley, during its heyday, people with money were updating their computers
as fast as new iterations
of technology were coming out. So he got some pretty incredible bargains
along the way. Eventually
he was able to purchase a brand new IBM computer, and now does a small
business from home and
calls it "Rent-a-Geek!" (The McCracken line is rich with people who have a
great sense of humor!)
But, the San Francisco-Silicon Valley areas are some of the most
heavily-hacked areas in America,
next to the Pentagon and Secret Services, and he has had to duel with a
virus or two. I have called, in
all innocence once or twice, and had him pick up the phone and snarl "WHAT?"
This is not like his
usual self, so lately, I just calmly say, "Hi, It's Mom - got another one,
huh?"
But he is the one who taught me much of how to protect myself. And when I
saw the two messages
in just a short time, both from the MCCRACKEN page, I knew that some
malignant, unprintable
guy had nailed the web site, and sent out the warning only to provide help
to others, if possible.
No harm was intended, nor was criticism. By the way, my antivirus scans my
messages, both incoming
and outgoing, so maybe the electronic hash I see when I know it is a virus,
is Norton's way to obscure
the actual nasty message. Nonetheless, it is unnerving to see that.
Thanks for your kindness and patience, and I hope somebody develops the
Mount Everest of all anti-
hack software, sometime. It would make social interactions over the internet
SO much more fun.
Not to mention what the cost of fighting the bloody things does to business.
Best wishes, Penny McCracken.
----- Original Message -----
From: "McCracken, Philip" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 5:14 AM
Subject: RE: [MCCRACKEN] Cecil County,Md. WARNING - FORWARD TO ALL
MCCRACKENS


> 1) If you have up to date anti-virus software such as McAffee's or
> Norton/Symantec's products you will protected from email viruses.
> 2) Some email virus will send themselves. Always without the owner of the
> machine knowing that a message has been sent. Outlook and other basic
SMTP
> email products can be effected by this.
> 3) Blocking the sender may not block the message. First, if it sent on a
> list such as the is. Second, spammers use false
> emails, reply addresses, and false pretenses to get through many filters.
>
> Philip - Technical Consultant
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nikoli A. McCracken [mailto:]
> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 2:32 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [MCCRACKEN] Cecil County,Md. WARNING - FORWARD TO ALL
> MCCRACKENS
>
>
> WARNING to all: At least two messages sent to me have had a virus. I have
a
> program which removes them from the hard drive, and I did it immediately,
so
> I do not remember who sent it. But when you see
> whole blocks text of text with random letters and numbers, get rid of it
> immediately, and report
> it to your server. Please folks, be very careful about sending
attachments.
> Make sure they are clean
> before sending. And it was on the MCCRACKEN name. I am using Outlook
Express
> 6.0. Here is how
> I get rid of these: When you see that block of random letters and numbers,
> delete it immediately. Then
> go to "deleted messages" and find it again. Then hit "Message." It will
have
> a drop down menu. Scroll
> down until you see "BLOCK SENDER." You will get a large block of text
> popping up. It says, roughly,
> "Are you sure you want (addressee) removed from your hard drive
permanently
> and placed in your
> BLOCKED SENDERS lest? Hit YES. Then you will see a brief "unloading" bar,
in
> blue. Let it run. Then
> you will need to hit yes one more time. Then it will be gone, forever,
from
> your hard drive. About
> every three months, hit "tools," then "message rules" and when you see
that,
> scroll down to "Empty
> blocked senders list." You can also use this on every single SPAM message
> you get. It drives them
> nuts, because then they cannot reach you again. That does not stop the new
> bad guys from reaching
> you, but it does frustrate the old ones. Perhaps, even long enough to give
> up. Good luck, and best
> wishes, Penny McCracken.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Clyde Downing" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 3:50 PM
> Subject: [MCCRACKEN] Cecil County,Md.
>
>
> > Deed book 23,LDS # 13831,Page 29, May 1801, MARTHA McCRACKIN,JOHN
> McCRACKIN
> > and WILLIAM McCRACKIN,heirs of ANN McCRACKIN,also known as ANN BRISTOW
all
> > of Elk Neck 100,Cecil County to WILLIAM ROBISON of same place. Whereas
> HENRY
> > JACKSON and ELIZABETH his wife and JOHN McCRACKIN and his wife the
> aforesaid
> > ANN being seized as co-parciners of a tract of land lying on the West
side
> > of Elk River,part of a tract called St.John's Manor and on 22 June 1790
> made
> > partition of said tract containing 200 acres and said ANN has since died
> and
> > her part has fallen to ANNE wife of said WILLIAM ROBISON and said
> > MARTHA,JOHN and WILLIAM. Now for £ 165 they sell all those 3 undivided
> 1/4th
> > parts. All 3 signed. On 22 May 1801 ELIZABETH wife of JOHN McCRACKEN
> signed
> > off on her dower rights.( ANNE wife of WILLIAM ROBISON was a sister of
> > MARTHA,JOHN and WILLIAM McCRACKIN.) These are not mine. Clyde
> >
> >
> >
>
>


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