Thanks for reminding me to do the live update.

William P.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Atkins" <briandeanatkins@NETSCAPE.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 5:07 AM
Subject: Re: Possible Virus...

> For those of you who have been receiving the .scr attachments on email
received from supposed list members, I'd strongly advise you not to open it.
If you have a virus scanner like Norton or McAfee AND (Note the BIG "AND")
you have been updating the software on a regular basis, you should be able
to detect whether or not the attachment has an embedded virus.  If you don't
have virus detection and you are still curious, go to:
>
> www.cert.org
>
> They track and maintain a list of current viruses.  My best advice is that
if you don't know the person who is sending the message, it's always better
to delete it (and delete it from your 'deleted' items, too) than take the
chance.
>
> Mailing lists like this are prime targets for viruses as it is easy for a
person to send a virus to a large amount of people in the shortest amount of
time.  With 800+ members, who I'm sure have email address books, the virus
could be propagated to millions of email acocunts by the end of the day.
>
> Sorry for the rant, it's what I do for a living.  Computers, that is, not
rant.  I'll leave the rants up to Dennis Miller and George Carlin...
>
> Brian
>
> '73 Beetle
> '85 Vanagon GL
> IBM RS/6000
> HP 9000
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