Re: off list virus question

[Ed Cray cray@xxxxxxxx]

Carl:

I don't think it extreme at all if one can avoid a trashed computer.

Carl, the problem is that many worms read the victim's address book -- in
this case, say, that of your sainted mother, and send on the message to
the first fifty addresses listed.

You, thinking it is S.M. who has sent you a warm greeting, innocently
open the "benign" attachment. And plunge into darkness.

As for transferring files, even large ones, I simply read the file into
the text of the letter. But then I use a UNIX-based mail program, Pine,
which makes it easy.

Ed




On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Carl Distefano wrote:

>
> Reply to note from Ed Cray  Sat, 21 Jul 2001
> 22:41:23 -0700 (PDT)
>
> > I would have expected that such longtime computer users as
> > Xywriters would know NEVER to open attachments, regardless of
> > who purportedly sent it.
>
> Isn't that a bit extreme? I would have thought it enough not to
> open attachments from any sender you don't personally know or any
> attachment you didn't specifically request. Otherwise, how do you
> exchange files?
>
> --
> Carl Distefano
> cld@xxxxxxxx
> http://users.datarealm.com/xywwweb/
>