RE Re: Nail.exe in Windows -- Virus problem, I think

["Patricia M. Godfrey" PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx]

On Sun. Aug 28 2005, Flash wrote:
≪other email programs which ...include import filters so you can
continue to use your Lookout eddress book≫
The problem is, the address book is one of the worst features of
Lookout/Oddlook/Outtaluck, with or without Express. There are bots out
there that harvest names and addresses from unprotected machines, then
not merely spam those addresses but spoof them to send more spam. (At
one point, when a careless colleague's address book was so gleaned, I
was "getting" spam from myself. Not really, of course, but the spammer
was spoofing my address to send me spam. Talk about insult to injury.) I
wouldn't even have it on my system (you CAN prevent its installing)
except that a client requires me to use Word, and installing Word
dragged in Outtaluck Express.

Robert Holmgren wrote:

≪Buy a router -- USD $50 or so. Intruders can't get past that≫
If I ever get broadband for real (cable's impossible while the obnoxious
local carrier has a monopoly, and for DSL I'll have to add a new, more
up-to-spec phone line), I will.

And he said,
≪Your equipment will be easier to use, and last longer, if you just
leave it running. Turning this stuff on and off is tough on hardware. ≫
I'm well aware of that, but hereabouts our power is likely to go down
without warning: thunderstorms in summer, hurricanes and nor'easters in
fall, ice storms in winter, and kamikaze squirrels and careless backhoes
at all times. Even with double surge suppression, that's more of a risk
than I care to run. (I know: the answer to that is a UPS. One of these
days...) And, of course, Redmond rubbish has to be shut down far more
frequently that a real opsys.
As for Jordan's animadversions on Gatesware, that goes without saying.
*nix is another one-of-these-days things.

Patricia M. Godfrey