ISP Information:
A device that translates between different network cables but maintains the same network topology. Thus, a transceiver could allow an AUI (Thick-Ethernet) NIC to work with a Cat5 network cable.
ISP Glossary:
Transceiver - wrote in messagenews:telecom23.119.14@telecom-digest.org: [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: This not so funny spam showed up in my mailbox here at MIT on Friday. PAT] Dear user of e-mail server "Telecom-digest.org", We warn you about some attacks on your e-mail account. Your computer may contain viruses, in order to keep your computer and e-mail account safe, please, follow the instructions. For details see the attach. Sincerely, The Telecom-digest.org team http://www.telecom-digest.org [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: There then followed a particularly nasty virus the 'Telecom-digest.org team' sent out around the net to everyone. NASTY IGNORANT PEOPLE DOING THIS.! PAT]Pat,It's just W32.Cone.D@mm, which is relatively benign. Seehttp://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.cone.d@mm.htmlfor details.HTH.Bill Warren[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: It may well be 'relatively benign' asyou suggest. But I still do not like having things go out *under myname* which could harm or break up someone else's computer and havethem think I said or did it. I guess it does not matter what I like ordon't like. At first I thought it was sort of funny when those thingscame from 'microsoft updates' (as they still do), but now they alsocome from PFSR, and various other good organizations, usuallydisguised as a way to 'clear the viruses out of your computer', or'prevent spam from reaching you'. Indeed ... just by rote teaching andsuggestions I flush it all away, since I do not really know that muchabout computers or their innards. But I really feel sorry for the guyswho know even less than myself about computers and feel that somethingwhich comes from 'microsoft security department' or PFSR must be fortheir own good and should be installed right away 'just as the peopleat Microsoft told me to do.' PAT]
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