Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>]

Over the past 2 weeks I have gotten about 20 copies of this virus a 
day.  It seems to be slowing down now, and Norton Antivirus 
caught it every time.  But I use Pegasus Mail, which provides an 
extra layer of protection against such things anyway.  It's only in 
programs like Outlook (Express) that tend to automatically open 
attachments depending on how they're structured, that just opening 
the message will propagate it.  Yet another reason to avoid 
Microsoft.  If it's not possible to migrate to Linux, Pegasus is an 
excellent mail client for dealing with this sort of thing.

> 
> I use Outlook and Internet Explorer.
> I also have Norton Virus Dectectors which I update weekly.
> The Norton caught every instance (Baruch YHWH) and none
> got through.
> Liz
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Giuseppe Regalzi [mailto:regalzi AT infinito.it]
> > Sent: Sun, December 02, 2001 11:50 AM
> > To: Biblical Hebrew
> > Subject: Re: Aftermath of virus
> >
> >
> > Kirk Lowery wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, the rule is: never, never, never open an attachment which
> > > you did not expect, or which comes from an infrequent or unknown
> > > correspondent.
> >
> > It's important to know that the virus in question (BadTransB) can
> > execute upon viewing the email message: it is not necessary to open
> > the attachment. Those with Internet Explorer 5.01 or 5.5 had better
> > download the patch provided by MS:
> >
> > http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/critical/q290108/default.asp
> >
> > or transmigrate to a less patchy software, to eliminate this
> > vulnerability.
> >
> > Giuseppe
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > Giuseppe Regalzi
> > regalzi AT tiscalinet.it
> > Resources for Jewish Studies (in italian):
> > http://www.regalzi.f2s.com/risorse.htm
> >
> >
> >
> > ---
> > You are currently subscribed to b-hebrew as: [lizfried AT umich.edu]
> > To unsubscribe, forward this message to
> > $subst('Email.Unsub')
> > To subscribe, send an email to join-b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu.
> 
> 
> ---
> You are currently subscribed to b-hebrew as: [dwashbur AT nyx.net]
> To unsubscribe, forward this message to $subst('Email.Unsub')
> To subscribe, send an email to join-b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu.
> 
> 


Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
This time, like all times, is a very good one if we but know what to do with 
it.
                  -Emerson