Forum Archive Index - October 2002

[Holden Glova <dsafari@paradise.net.nz>]

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On Thu, 03 Oct 2002 16:41, davida wrote:
> Snoopy,
>
> I do have virus protection that is updated every 3 days which I think is a
> fairly responsible and reasonable level of protection,however it has now
> been modified to daily updates.This is still not foolproof as most virus
> companys took a day to recognise and make an update available.
>
> The virus that hit put several thousands of computers out worldwide.
> Your adress is not in my address book ,only the sharechat address as listed
> above.There are only 15 addresses in my address book in total. If  am
> indeed at fault I do apologise .
>
> davida

Hi david,

I too received your email so I suspect that this virus may propogate by going 
through your stored emails, the only way I think you would have my email is 
by keeping the sharechat messages, which of course is OK with me :)

Also be for warned that a new trend in virii is to send them as a multi-part 
MIME attachments that pass through detection of virus software because the 
virus signature is dissassembled and only reassembled when your email client 
goes to present the attachment to you.

Just don't open attachments from people you don't know, and if you do know 
them, make sure they would be sending you an attachment. If unsure always ask 
them what it is they sent you __before__ opening it. Most viruses need to 
actually be made to run by the user, however there are some evil tricks that 
can be used if you allow HTML email, or if you use MS outlook, or outlook 
express.

An alternative is to install Linux and for the most part, forget about the 
virus threat :)

- -- 
Signed,
Holden Glova
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