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[Ginda Fisher <ginda@concentric.net>]

Tom, I looked up "Snow White" and "Hahaha", and they both propagate as
attachments.  I haven't gotten any attachments from Yahoo in a while.

1)  Do you think this is related to my missing some posts?
2)  I dimly recall having set some preference to NOT get attachments. 
(or HTML, or something like that)  I did this because the flashing ads
were driving me nuts, but maybe it's been protecting me from some
viruses.  Now that I go back and look, I haven't gotten many ads lately,
either - mostly just text ads to download M$ Internet Explorer, and
notes about Yahoo having swallowed e-groups.  There's often a line that
says "Yahoo Group Sponsor" with no other info.  This is a big
improvement over what I had been getting.

You might want to go to Yahoo Groups and see if there are preferences
you can set to avoid these pests.  If you learn something useful, please
share.

Ginda

Thomas Olenio wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Mostly Snow White and the Hahahaha viruses have been coming and coming and
> coming.
> 
> Some attach files that they try to diguise as JPG files, but you will see
> a file extension name beyond the JPG.
> 
> Regards,
> Tom
> 
> --
> Thomas Olenio
> Ontario, Hardiness Zone 6a
> 
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Ginda Fisher wrote:
> 
> > Tom,
> >
> > So have I caught several viruses?  My virus software isn't that out of
> > date, and it hasn't noticed anything.
> >
> > I didn't catch the virus that everyone was talking about because it was
> > an outlook-only thing.  (I deleted all the letters that might have
> > carried it, because I think I could have spread it by mistake if I
> > didn't.)  Have there been a lot more?
> >
> > Ginda
> >
> > Tom Olenio wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > Prior to the move from Egroups to Yahoo Groups, a rare virus laiden
> > > email slipped through.  Now with Yahoo Groups I must see 7 or more
> > > viruses coming in a day.
> > >
> > > I would like to take this moment to thank Yahoo Groups for this
> > > onslaught of virus attacks on their list members.
> > >
> > > Personally, I would not care about losing the archives, if we could
> > > get back to a cleaner data stream of email.  The archives mean nothing
> > > if a PC is no longer operational because a virus sent to machine has
> > > killed it.
> > >
> > > I wonder if that is why the list is so quiet...  machines being
> > > snuffed out with viruses.
> > >
> > > Is there some reason we are not looking at MOVING the NAFEX egroup to
> > > a cleaner data stream?
> > >
> > > Really tired of virus attacks,
> > > Tom.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Thomas Olenio
> > > Ontario, Canada
> > > Hardiness Zone 6a
> > >