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THE RICE THRESHER NEWS FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 25, 2000
1 met someone. Last year...
Someone I thought I already knew.
I spent my whole life taking him for granted. I thought I
didn't have to go deeper with him because I could handl
life on my own. Yet he always knew my secret, silent fears.
But I didn't really know him.
Lastyear, 1finally heard what he- urns all about.
He said, "My love is stronger than your fears,
deeper than your loneliness.
So deep, in fact, that I died for you.
I have loved you with an everlasting love." 4
Zr Loi/Hsforever?
Yes.
Does anyone care what you go through?
He does.
He died to rescue-you,.
kAIL never abandon you.
Have-you- met Him. ?
JesuA
Nicci Lew
Will Rice '01
PAID FOR BY CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST
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owe Of THE ANmEUS£P'BUSCh COMPANIES
We'd Like to Include You In Our Plans
As America s leading brewer, Anheuser-Busch is at peak production between May and
September and that means a terrific opportunity for you. Our Houston facility needs
enthusiastic peopie with a strong work ethic to keep pace with demand. Earn a great
wage and more by joining us as:
BREWING MAINTENANCE ENGINEERING INTERN
Spring Semester 2000
If you re maioring in either Electrical or Computer Engineering, and have at least a
sophomore status, this could be the perfect opportunity for you to gain some invaluable
experience — and be the envy of all your friends! You'll assist our supervisors in the daily
maintenance of our brewing process equipment. You'll also get to design and/or modify
both electrical schematics and instrument loop drawings, program P.L.C. and G.U.I.,
develop web pages, help develop an electronic maintenahce log system, and help
implement an SAP maintenance tracking system. Qualifications include knowledge of
Windows NT and MS Office programs, plus good communication skills. Knowledge of
Sybase and Unix would be a plus, as would experience with P.L.C., G.U.I., process
instrumentation, and/or web page design. Job Code: Brewing Intern - RU
SEASONAL PRODUCTION WORKERS
May 1 - September 30
If you're 18 or older, you can join us in our Beer Packaging & Shipping Department for
a maximum of 1,000 hours at $12.50/hr + overtime. Earn an additional $.52/hr for
afternoon shifts or $.55/hr for night shifts. Although no benefits are available, you will
enjoy 12 Busch entertainment tickets/year for you and your immediate family. Job Code'
PRODSEAS-RU
QUALITY ASSURANCE - SEASONAL
May 1 - September 30
You II conduct routine testing in our brewing or packaging QA laboratory; participate in
quality process management; and help control product quality while providing support to
operating departments. We require that you be working toward a bachelor's degree in '
Science, Math or a related field. Other qualifications include completion of college-level
Algebra (or beyond), college-level introductory Biology, Microbiology, Physics or Chemis-
try; solid leadership, interpersonal and communication skills; and the ability to operate/
maintain/troubleshoot laboratory instruments and work any shift. Job Code: QASEAS-RU
These positions offer competitive pay, as well as invaluable training and experience.
Please forward your resume, Indicating Job Code, fo:
Anheuser-Busch, Inc.
Attn: Human Resources, 775 Gellhorn, Houston, TX 77029
Fax:(713)678-3801
To learn about other opportunities, call the Jobline: (713) 670-1629.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Anheuser-Busch is a drug free environment
www.buschjobs.com
Work for the Thresher.
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'Pretty Park' virus infects Rice computers
Students who received the virus urged to change their Owlnet passwords
by J. Cameron Cooper
THKKSHKK STAR"
An e-mail virus known as "Pretty
Park" began infecting Rice comput-
ers running Windows last week.
The virus takes the form of a pro-
gram, "Pretty Park.exe," attached
to an e-mail message titled
"C:\CoolProgs\Pretty Park.exe."
'Pretty Park puts the
entire network at risk if
a remote attacker has
the ability fo compromise
passwords.'
— Wyman Miles
Senior systems administrator
The virus is reported to appear as
an icon from the "South Park" ani-
mated television series. While re-
ceiving and reading the message is
safe, opening the attached program
could create problems. When down-
loaded and run, the virus installs
itself on the computer and tries ev-
ery 80 minutes to mail itself to every
person in the address book of
Microsoft Outlook, an e-mail pro-
gram'. In a networked environment
like that found in the colleges, this
can mean an almost instantaneous
broadcast of infected messages.
"Pretty Park is one of what will
certainly be an increasing number
of e-mail viruses that don't merely
propagate," Senior Systems Admin-
istrator Wyman Miles said. The vi-
rus also attempts to connect to an
internet relay channel where it can
then take commands that can send
information and passwords stored
on the computer to a third party.
"Pretty Park puts the entire net-
work at risk if a remote attacker has
the ability to compromise pass-
words," Miles said. "We're trying to
get everyone whose machines were
infected by this to change their
Owlnet and/or RUF passwords, af-
ter the virus has been removed, of
course."
The Pretty Park virus affects only
Windows systems, so users of
Macintosh, Unix or Linux systems
cannot be attacked. Users whocheck
their mail viaTelnet and Unix-based
programs like Pine also cannot be
affected "unless they download the
program to a Windows system and
run it.
The virus targets only Outlook
and Outlook Express address books,
so users of Netscape Messenger or
Eudora mail readers won't spread
the virus, although it can still infect
their system.
When run, the program doesn't
seem to do anything, although it
silently infects the system.
Will Rice College freshman
Steven Caufield said the virus forced
him to spend time writing e-mail to
people who had received the virus
from his e-mail program. "1 got about
30 mails from people telling me how
to get rid of it, and even more from
people from other schools wonder-
ing what it was, and I had to answer
them all," he said. "It's been a lot of
pain for something so stupid."
Pretty Park and similar viruses
cannot be filtered at the server, M iles
said, because although this outbreak
might be stopped, future viruses
would alter their signatures to slip
past any filters. In addition, valid e-
mail might be filtered as well. "We
want to protect the community but
we're unwilling to risk false posi-
tives, the allegation that mail is be-
ing monitored or suppressed, lost
mail and the like," Miles said.
"Ultimately, stopping the spread
of this thing falls to the user commu-
' Ultimately, stopping
the spread of this thing
falls to the user
community.'
— Wyman Miles
nity. We've repeatedly stated, as a
cautionary measure, that no one
should open any file or run any ex-
ecutable they receive in electronic
mail, regardless of the source," Miles
said.
"These e-mail viruses spread by
sending themselves to people in your
address book. It's designed to mas-
querade as a benign piece of mail
from a friend. With that in mind, no
file attachment is trustworthy."
For more information and re-
moval instructions, go to http://
wwwrrice.edu/Computer/Comput-
ing/Virus/prettypark.html.
For assistance, send e-mail to
problem@rice.edu.
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