FOTD 21-08-03 (Wicked Screensaver [5])
FOTD -- August 21, 2003 (Rating 5) Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: WARNING . . . the first four paragraphs are an off-topic rant. Spam is one thing, but when I opened my e-mail box last evening after a 3-day absence, I found over 750 spams, many with a 70KB attachment waiting to be downloaded. Since I have a slow dial-up connection, each attachment takes almost one minute to download. A simple bit of math will show that the total download will take close to 12 hours to complete, and the new junk is arriving almost as fast as I can download it. Needless to say I am rather annoyed. REMAINING 3 PARAGRAPHS OF RANT DELETED . . . I counted to 10. Today's hastily found image combines Z^(-7.7) and Z^(-1.1). Much of the image consists of 'inside' parts made visible by the 'epsiloncross' inside fill. The name, "Wicked Screensaver" was inspired, if it can be called inspiration, by the subject line of many of the spam e-mails. I didn't give much thought to rating the image, so the rating of an average 5 will have to do. The render time of 16 minutes can be cut drastically by letting Paul and Scott render the image and downloading it from their web sites at: <http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/FotD/FotD.html> <http://sdboyd.dyndns.org/~sdboyd/fotd/index.html> After being indoors for two days, the fractal cats were quite eager for the brief spell in the yard they had when I returned late Wednesday afternoon. They grew grouchy when I brought them in too soon. Since I was already grouchy, we all sulked together. This morning is starting very warm, and my e-mail box is once again stuffed with over 300 worthless letters. While down- loading and deleting, I'll get some real work done on another machine. Until tomorrow, when I may be in a better mood, take care, and don't lose your cool. Jim Muth jamth@mindspring.com jimmuth@aol.com START 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE================================ Wicked_Screensaver { ; time=0:16:20.31--SF5 on a p200 reset=2002 type=formula formulafile=allinone.frm formulaname=MandelbrotMix4 function=recip passes=1 center-mag=-3.706926183106532/+14.67823304557001/4\ 828493 params=-0.3/-7.7/-2.1/-1.1/0/0 float=y maxiter=850 inside=epsiloncross proximity=0.002 logmap=206 periodicity=10 colors=0009LVBMUCNTDOSFPRGQQHRPJSOKSOLTNNUMOVLPWKR\ XJSYITYIVZHW_GX`FZaE_bD`cCacCbdEbdGcdHceJceLdeMdeO\ dfQefRefTbdWefUhhSjjQmlOpnMrpKurIzvFwtGtrHrqIooJmn\ KjlLgkMeiMbhN`fOYePVcQTbRQ`SO_SP`VQaXQbZRcaSccSdeT\ egUfjUglVgnWhqWisXjuXjwYktYkrYloZlmZmjZmh_ne_nc_o`\ `oZ`pW`pUaqRaqPdsPaqNZpMVlKSjJPfHLdGIaEFZDBXB8UA5S\ 97RC8QEAPHBOJDNMEMOGLRHLTJKWKJYMI`NHbPGeQFgSEjTElW\ FkYFj_GiaGhcHgeHfhIejIdlJcnJbpKarK`zJYtK_oLaiMcdNe\ ZOgUPiOQkJRmDSo5Pr8SqBVpEYpH`oKbnNenQhmTklWmlXlkYk\ kZjjZjj_ii`hiahhaghbfgcfgdefddfedefcegbdgbdhaci`cj\ `bi`ch`dg`dg`ef`ee`fe`fd`gc`gc`hb`ia`i``j``j_`kZ`k\ Z`lY`lX`mZWrX`mVeiUieSnaQsYOzTPwUQuURsURqUSoVTmVTk\ VUiVVgWVeWWcWXaWX_XYYXZWXaeUZUXVCJXIZVH_UH_TG_SG_R\ G`QF`PF`OF`NEaMEaLEaKDaJDaICbHCbGCbFBbEBcDBcCAcBAc\ AAcCEaEI_GMZIQXKUVMYUOaSQeQSiPUmNiy0VpMScWOcWJcWFc\ WBcW4en7cW8i69bD9XJ000Pol } frm:MandelbrotMix4 {; Jim Muth a=real(p1), b=imag(p1), d=real(p2), f=imag(p2), g=1/f, h=1/d, j=1/(f-b), z=(-a*b*g*h)^j, k=real(p3)+1, l=imag(p3)+100, c=fn1(pixel): z=k*((a*(z^b))+(d*(z^f)))+c, |z| < l END 20.0 PAR-FORMULA FILE==================================
Interesting...the SoBig.F worm is apparently being spread via e-mails with the subject "Wicked Screensaver" John W. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Muth" <jamth@mindspring.com> To: <fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Cc: <philofractal@lists.fractalus.com> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 7:09 AM Subject: [Fractint] FOTD 21-08-03 (Wicked Screensaver [5])
FOTD -- August 21, 2003 (Rating 5)
Also shows up as "My Details," "The movie," "Returned message: User unknown," variations of the first two (plus Wicked Screenaver) prefaced with a "re:" and an assortment of others. All in all, it kept things busy! Now, I wonder if the spread of an email worm can somehow be considered a fractal? David gnome@hawaii.rr.com On 21 Aug 03, at 22:16, John Wilson wrote:
Interesting...the SoBig.F worm is apparently being spread via e-mails with the subject "Wicked Screensaver"
John W.
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FOTD -- August 21, 2003 (Rating 5)
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Just one reason why I use the excellent and free Pegasus Mail for Windows. Its Selective Download feature downloads message headers (including the message size) and displays a list, from which you can chose to have it delete messages without downloading them. Just sort the list by size, select all the messages bigger than the size you want to download, click "Mark for Deletion," then make like a Trekkie and click the "Make It So" button. I've also spotted something all the SoBig.F messages have - a message header "X-Scanner: Found to be clean." So I set up a rule in Pegasus that looks for that header in a message and trashes it. It made blowing away 100+ worm messages the matter of a few seconds. Pegasus also doesn't open or run attachments unless you tell it to, and won't fetch graphic links - often used as web bugs, and also can be used to run malicious code in Windows systems - in formatted messages. You can also download your mail, go off-line and disconnect from the Internet, deal with your mail (including replying to mail), then reconnect and send your mail when you get done. Been using it for about seven years now very happily. You can find it at http://www.pmail.com or just Google(tm) around for "Pegasus Mail for Windows". David gnome@hawaii.rr.com On 21 Aug 03, at 10:09, Jim Muth wrote:
Spam is one thing, but when I opened my e-mail box last evening after a 3-day absence, I found over 750 spams, many with a 70KB attachment waiting to be downloaded. Since I have a slow dial-up connection, each attachment takes almost one minute to download. A simple bit of math will show that the total download will take close to 12 hours to complete, and the new junk is arriving almost as fast as I can download it. Needless to say I am rather annoyed.
I hate to say it, but Bill's "Outlook Express" performs all of the same tricks...optionally! John W. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Jones" <gnome@hawaii.rr.com> To: <fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 10:43 PM Subject: Re: [Fractint] FOTD 21-08-03 (Wicked Screensaver [5])
Just one reason why I use the excellent and free Pegasus Mail for Windows. Its Selective Download feature downloads message headers (including the message size) and displays a list, from which you can chose to have it delete messages without downloading them.
Just sort the list by size, select all the messages bigger than the size you want to download, click "Mark for Deletion," then make like a Trekkie and click the "Make It So" button.
I've also spotted something all the SoBig.F messages have - a message header "X-Scanner: Found to be clean." So I set up a rule in Pegasus that looks for that header in a message and trashes it. It made blowing away 100+ worm messages the matter of a few seconds.
Pegasus also doesn't open or run attachments unless you tell it to, and won't fetch graphic links - often used as web bugs, and also can be used to run malicious code in Windows systems - in formatted messages.
You can also download your mail, go off-line and disconnect from the Internet, deal with your mail (including replying to mail), then reconnect and send your mail when you get done.
Been using it for about seven years now very happily.
You can find it at http://www.pmail.com or just Google(tm) around for "Pegasus Mail for Windows".
David
Including filtering on X-headers (custom headers)? I wouldn't know, I don't have OE around. At work, we have Outlook98 and Outlook 2002 - and neither of them can filter on X-headers. David gnome@hawaii.rr.com On 21 Aug 03, at 23:00, John Wilson wrote:
I hate to say it, but Bill's "Outlook Express" performs all of the same tricks...optionally!
John W.
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Jones" <gnome@hawaii.rr.com> To: <fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 10:43 PM Subject: Re: [Fractint] FOTD 21-08-03 (Wicked Screensaver [5])
Just one reason why I use the excellent and free Pegasus Mail for Windows. Its Selective Download feature downloads message headers (including the message size) and displays a list, from which you can chose to have it delete messages without downloading them.
Just sort the list by size, select all the messages bigger than the size you want to download, click "Mark for Deletion," then make like a Trekkie and click the "Make It So" button.
I've also spotted something all the SoBig.F messages have - a message header "X-Scanner: Found to be clean." So I set up a rule in Pegasus that looks for that header in a message and trashes it. It made blowing away 100+ worm messages the matter of a few seconds.
Pegasus also doesn't open or run attachments unless you tell it to, and won't fetch graphic links - often used as web bugs, and also can be used to run malicious code in Windows systems - in formatted messages.
You can also download your mail, go off-line and disconnect from the Internet, deal with your mail (including replying to mail), then reconnect and send your mail when you get done.
Been using it for about seven years now very happily.
You can find it at http://www.pmail.com or just Google(tm) around for "Pegasus Mail for Windows".
David
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