I strongly encourage you to post anything that  would  help  your fellow
list members to have a happier  existence. I'm floating around here
banned form the type two list because I dared to assist a list member.
In the butt Stan, the deserves caps STAN.

Stan Wilder
83 Westfalia Air Cooled

n Tue, 18 Dec 2001 08:07:41 -0500 Brian Atkins
<briandeanatkins@NETSCAPE.NET> writes:
> 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
>
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