[at-l] OT: Viruses

[icw39@ncfreedom.net (Clark Wright)]

My one comment on all the virus talk is this:  Don't ever assume that
the labelled sender of a virus [real, fake, or disabled] is the real bad
person.  Most "modern" viruses do all kinds of nasty tricks in people's
e-mail address books such that tons of copies of the virus go out
without the "infected owner" even knowing it.  In short, it's almost
100% certain that neither Wildbill nor Baltimore Jack did anything
intentionally here . . . and, it is most likely on this one that you did
not even get infected, as this one seems to have been disabled by most
servers, ISPs, etc. along its journey . . . but definitely do a manual
scan, or go to one of the free websites that will do a scan for you,
just to make sure - kinda like washing "underware," (sic) you'll be
cleaning up yer software! :)

thru-thinker

ATnavi@aol.com wrote:
> 
> Ever since I headed out of town to hike last Weds, have been getting
> innundated with viruses from people I know (like Baltimore Jack and Wildbill)
> and people I don't... I never open an attachment without precautionary
> measures. Most of the viruses have had subject lines that are HTML tags. Very
> strange.
> 
> Cheers, Navigator
> PS. If you're sending me something for ALDHA, I'll open only plain text or a
> .doc file!
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