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["Gordon Nofs" <gc_nofs@hotmail.com>]

Knock on wood! I have been on computers around 20 some years. I have never 
had a virus.
 Anything coming into and leaving my computer is checked by MacAfee and 
Norton and both are updated every 2 weeks and in the case where one person 
sent me something saying that others were getting a virus from sending it to 
them I update my virus checker before I continue. What he sent was clean.

Gordon C. Nofs
Flint, MI.

----Original Message Follows----
From: "Joe Hecksel" <jhecksel@voyager.net>
Reply-To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [NAFEX] Re: Attachments and virus(es)
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 06:01:37 -0400


> I am really glad you made this announcement.  I will not open files
unless I know someone personally

I may be beating a dead horse, but my understanding is that many of
these malicious programs hijack legitimate address books.  You cannot
use the sender as a test of goodness.

Example:
Let's say I enjoy sharing humorous stories with my friends on the
internet.  When I hear a new joke I send it to my friends A, B, C and D.
Mr Virus will attach itself to an old message that I really did send to
A, B, C and D and then resends it.  The email return address shows
that it came from me (and it did come from my computer and went
through my ISP account).  A, B, C and D are delighted to get another
joke from me and pop the attachment open.  Bang!  They are infected.
The life form replicates itself.

One strategy that I use is to limit max size mail downloads to 20kB.
Many mail programs default to 50kB but can be set by the user.  The
bearbug attachment is 51kB.

--
Joe Hecksel
Personal Webpage http://my.voyager.net/~jhecksel

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