[nflug] tw rr screwjob

Richard Hubbard hubbardr at adelphia.net
Tue May 29 20:31:20 EDT 2007


Get virtual machine for vmware player, then install winders over the os 
that comes.  Do your registration on the Virtual machine, then rm -f to 
the virtual machine and you're golden, viruses and spyware are down the 
bit bucket.

Stephen Burke wrote:
> Michael Richardson wrote:
>> IEs4Linux:
>>
>> http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/
>>
>> Basically, it's a script that automagically installs IE under Wine.
>>
> Thanks for the tip. Had no idea. It still creeps me out to use ie, but 
> at least all the virii it gathers won't run here. ;-)
>
> So far, though, the program has failed to run on two different 
> machines - the BLAG 30k (fc3) one that connects to adelphia for mail 
> AND the ubuntu feisty one that I've been using ssh -X on to read my mail.
>
> On the BLAG box it says this:
> ...
> Installing IE 6
>   Initializing
>   Creating Wine Prefix
>   Extracting CAB files
> lib/functions.sh: line 69: 
> /home/qfwfq/download/ies4linux/ies4linux-2.0.5/cabextract.log: No such 
> file or directory
> cat: /home/qfwfq/download/ies4linux/ies4linux-2.0.5/cabextract.log: No 
> such file or directory
> rm: cannot remove 
> `/home/qfwfq/download/ies4linux/ies4linux-2.0.5/cabextract.log': No 
> such file or directory
> An error occured when trying to cabextract some files.
>
> On the feisty box it says this:
> ...
> Installing IE 6
>   Initializing
>   Creating Wine Prefix
>   Extracting CAB files
> /home/qfwfq/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//ADVAUTH.CAB: no valid 
> cabinets found
> /home/qfwfq/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//CRLUPD.CAB: WARNING; 
> possible 6752 extra bytes at end of file.
> /home/qfwfq/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//HHUPD.CAB: WARNING; 
> possible 6720 extra bytes at end of file.
> /home/qfwfq/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//IEDOM.CAB: WARNING; 
> possible 6752 extra bytes at end of file.
> /home/qfwfq/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//IE_EXTRA.CAB: WARNING; 
> possible 6752 extra bytes at end of file.
> /home/qfwfq/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//IE_S1.CAB: WARNING; 
> possible 6752 extra bytes at end of file.
> /home/qfwfq/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//IE_S2.CAB: WARNING; 
> possible 6752 extra bytes at end of file.
> /home/qfwfq/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//IE_S3.CAB: WARNING; 
> possible 6752 extra bytes at end of file.
> /home/qfwfq/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//IE_S4.CAB: WARNING; 
> possible 6752 extra bytes at end of file.
> /home/qfwfq/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//IE_S5.CAB: WARNING; 
> possible 6752 extra bytes at end of file.
> /home/qfwfq/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//IE_S6.CAB: WARNING; 
> possible 6752 extra bytes at end of file.
> /home/qfwfq/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//SCR56EN.CAB: WARNING; 
> possible 6464 extra bytes at end of file.
> /home/qfwfq/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//SETUPW95.CAB: WARNING; 
> possible 6752 extra bytes at end of file.
> /home/qfwfq/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//VGX.CAB: WARNING; possible 
> 6896 extra bytes at end of file.
> An error occured when trying to cabextract some files.
>
> I'm new to cabextract, also, so I don't really know what's going on here.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> S.
>
>
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