[Mccoypottery-talk] (still OT) re: viruses

[Chris Jubic]

I have had problems with email "worms" before. It is a particular kind of
virus that works its way into your addrress box and sends itself out to
everyone in there,..sending nonsensical.messages or gibberish. I have been
accused by some of deliberately sending them out,..so guess  some people
dont understand how that works. "The worm" is sending them! No further
problems like that since  I installed a firewall and Norton Anti-Virus 2003.
It was awful!
Symantic/Housecall  is a good place to go for a free scan for the LATEST
virus's. Remember, your softeware can only detect KNOWN virisus! People are
"out there" inventing new ones all the time! Nothing better to do, I guess.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Jennings" <mjtn@bellsouth.net>
To: <mccoypottery-talk@lists.mccoypottery.com>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 2:25 PM
Subject: [Mccoypottery-talk] (still OT) re: viruses


> ( ... is "viruses" a word? ... or is it one of those words like cacti?)
>
> I'm not very up-to-date on how a computer virus is sent/received, etc.,
but
> I've always used the free version of Eudora e-mail software because it's
> easy to set the preferences to not open any attachments or run any kind of
> html stuff, etc. I've always kept the settings that way. I've avoided a
> virus more than once. When your preferences are set up this way, if you
> receive an attachment with an extension anything other than jpg, gif,
etc.,
> especially something you're not expecting and from someone you don't
know -
> DON'T OPEN IT. The only thing you need to know is how to go
> into  c:eudora/attach  in windows explorer and delete the file WITHOUT
> opening it, and then empty the trash bin.
>
> mj
>
>
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