Re: Caution Virus

[Larry Botkin <larbot at jorsm_com>]

Hi Erik;
   Basically what you want is a non Microsoft E-Mailer.. .I don't know of 
any other than MS  taht uses the scripting language VBA that is the prime 
target of the virus spreaders...   I use Eudora, its a nice plain jane 
E-Mail program that does have a free mode...  You can get it from;
http://www.eudora.com . There are others out there as well...  But even 
with that ALWAYS use an AntiVirus scanner for your system and be careful 
with any E-Mail that show it has an attachment...  And even that isn't 
totally secure. There are virii you can pick up from some browsing...    A 
japanese programmer discovered a way to hit your machine from a web site 
you are browsing... It usually comes in through an entry into your 
favorites folder....  High Tech is really fun...

Larry



At 03:28 PM 9/26/02 -0400, you wrote:

>Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 19:30:58 +0200
>From: "Erik Pfingstner" <erikpfingstner at freenet_de>
>Subject: AW: Caution, Virus problem out there in killieland
>
>Hi John,
>
>Is it possible to use a linux or UNIX based mail reader like yours on a
>windows system?
>
>ERik
>
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> > Auftrag von listhub at andante_mn.org
> > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 26. September 2002 23:45
> > An: killietalk at aka_org
> > Betreff: RE: Caution, Virus problem out there in killieland
> >
> >
> >
> > On 23-Sep-02 William Shenefelt II wrote:
> > > Meanwhile be careful out there.
> > >
> >
> > Yeah, use Linux and a UNIX based mail reader.  Natural virus immunity!
> >
> > I have seen those messages come in.  The attachments clearly are
> > .bat file set
> > to exec when the mail message is opened and a small .exe file of
> > some type.
> > With the UNIX based mail readers (I use XFMail but there are many others)
> > EVERYTHING except the ASCII is shown as a separate file.  Even HTML is
> > separated.  Real easy to determine infected messages.  I have my
> > base sendmail
> > hacked to send anything with a .bat or .exe attachment to the bit
> > bucket in the
> > sky.
> >
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