Hello Andrew and Everyone (who likes to use Ubuntu Operating System), cc: to Ern Williams (my Dad in Victor Harbor, South Australia ) and cc to: Ms Tracey Onyett who works for an Organization called 'Wise Employment Australia' and who has been trying to help me look for a job to do part-time or on a casual basis. and cc: Alvaro GP who an amazingly clever computer person & good friend, living in Malaga, Spain, in Europe. Hello All, My apologies for typing such a long message. I think I should try to explain why I sent the email (yesterday) about this virus called "c-nile". Please pass the word around that in particular to Micro$oft Windows users whom I suggest need to check for this very bad email virus ;-( My Dear Dad who is in his 80s (I get confused about his exact age), he was born in 1926... So you can work out exactly how old he is. Anyway, Dad and Mum live together is a lovely place house in Victor Harbor, South Australia. They have been married for 51 years and are still very much in Love #GREAT BIG SMILE# Dad has an extremely modern computer with Micro$oft Windowz Vista Pro with all the latest Service Packs and virus checkers, and spam checkers, and trojan horse checkers etc etc etc. My Dad (Ern Williams) loves to use his computer for all types of things. For example: playing Mahjongg Tile matching games, web games (of many different types), playing find-a-word puzzles, jigsaw puzzles, viewing funny jokes and seeing beautiful multi-media (of all kinds) of artwork of things like: beautiful artworks (of all kind) and pretty graphics of flowers, landscapes, animals, children etc etc etc. Anyway, I digress (I apologize) - My father (Ern Williams) send me an email warning me that his computer had been affected by this e-mail virus called 'c-nile'. It sounds horrible -- it still disgusts and appalls me at the horrible e-mail viruses which these stupid and cruel people create and infect people with !!!!!!! Apparently my Dad has now removed the c-nile virus, however he was telling me about it in his email to me... so, as I want to warn other people to remove it. I think that a good anti-virus checker program *SHOULD* be able to remove it!!! I hope it does! I fully admit that I can tend to be quite naive!!! :-) I am an amiable person and actually I like it try to encourage people to learn to use their computers and not be worried about their computers playing up. E.g. I like to help people to use their computer in a productive and fun ways!!! Checking for horrible viruses etc is far from fun!!! but it seems, unfortunately, a necessity of life. Actually, when I lived in Canberra, ACT, I worked for the Royal Australian Navy, in the Australian Federal Government Dept of Defence (eg the Public Service). I worked there for 23 years and even tho' I became quite sick with Schizophrenia, I still remained employed as a Draftsman (drawing with pen and ink) and also with a wide range of CAD software. I also became a Technical Officer and designed many many Databases and used most of the so-called Micro$oft Office applications. And I designed Websites for the RAN !!! I was also the computer help person for the Directorate of the RAN in which I worked!!! So, I helped people to fix their computers when they didn't like to use them or were having difficulties with them!!! I generally found this to be both difficult and also extremely rewarding to help people understand how to get the most from their computers and not be afraid of using it!!! SMILE In other words, I really enjoyed this because I found it to be greatly rewarding and, although not easy, it was a Good Thing to do!!!! ;-))) Now please don't misunderstand me *SMILE* Although I have used computers for many years and I have become very productive at using them... I still get very confused at learning Linux and How to do things like dual-boot between different OSes. I'm getting off topic... sorry about that. I am now using Mint Linux v5.1 with the Gnome desktop environment (I think that the correct term for it). It is performing absolutely rock-solid !!! eg. I'm using Firefox as my web-browser and it has all of the latest updates. *I'm extremely happy with it* !!! My pc still has some teething problems... but that's life I guess *SMILE*. My view of life is that the proverbial glass is half-full, not half-empty. Now if only I could figure out how to get my "repositories" working correctly, then that would be a big help! :-) For some reason my Synaptic Package Manager (that's what its called) was NOT happy... I think that I had typed in the wrong repository server addresses!?!?! ( I'm trying to use the correct terminology... but I'm not too sure of the correct buzz-words and jargon to use!!!! -- I still regard myself to be a beginner at Mint Linux !!!! ;-) Yours Faithfully and With Much Love, (wishing that your computer works well and doesn't give you head-aches!!!) Pete the Poet from Oz, Fond Regards, Peter Eric (aka 'pew') WILLIAMS from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia -- phone (03) 6236-9675 My free website is: <a href="http://pewtas.googlepages.com" target="_blank">http://pewtas.googlepages.com</a>  (or) <a href="http://tinyurl.com/yuyejs" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/yuyejs</a> and also <a style="font-family: georgia,serif;" href="http://pewslinuxvault.googlepages.com" target="_blank">http://pewslinuxvault.googlepages.com </a> (please visit my free website and let me know what you think about it.) Bob Hope  - "I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom." <div style="font-family: georgia,serif;" class="gmail_quote">2009/1/14 andrew <<a href="mailto:usenet.andrew@gmail.com" target="_blank">usenet.andrew@gmail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div>On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 07:43:39PM +0000, <a href="mailto:pewtas@gmail.com" target="_blank">pewtas@gmail.com</a> wrote: > I've shared a document with you called "c-nile virus": </div>Hmmmm..... is this supposed to be a joke or is it spam? Andrew -- ubuntu-au mailing list <div><a href="mailto:ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com</a> </div><a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au</a> </blockquote></div>