Attachments, viruses, and lists

[Murli]

Fortunately, my virus program was able to recognize and neuter Happy99  --
this is the about the 5th time that that darn virus has struck my machine
this year.

As a general rule, it would be wise not to send attachments to a list,
given the potential to proliferate a virus.  It would be better to store
the file on a webserver, and have people download as needed.  Since there
are many folks on this list with websites, someone could volunteer to
archive (and catalog) such documents as might be of interest to LISTies.

Murli

>From  Thu Oct  7 20:45:00 1999
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Murli,

I believe this particular virus is "self-launching".  Once it is your
computer, it will attach itself to email messages that you send out.  I
don't believe Audry "sent" it to the list - it sent itself.

Dave

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Subject: Attachments, viruses, and lists


Fortunately, my virus program was able to recognize and neuter Happy99  --
this is the about the 5th time that that darn virus has struck my machine
this year.

As a general rule, it would be wise not to send attachments to a list,
given the potential to proliferate a virus.  It would be better to store
the file on a webserver, and have people download as needed.  Since there
are many folks on this list with websites, someone could volunteer to
archive (and catalog) such documents as might be of interest to LISTies.

Murli

>From  Fri Oct  8 01:26:47 1999
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From: Michael Herman <mherman at globalchicago.net>
Organization: Michael Herman Associates
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Murli wrote:

> <snip>...it would be wise not to send attachments to a list,
> given the potential to proliferate a virus.  It would be better to store
> the file on a webserver, and have people download as needed.  Since there
> are many folks on this list with websites, someone could volunteer to
> archive (and catalog) such documents as might be of interest to LISTies

actually, we have the technology on the new website to allow anyone to post
anything to the new bulletin board forums and then paste the links into their
messages.  if we need to we can create a whole new forum dedicated to such
would-be attachments.  what we have can be used by all with NO delay or need
to involve others.  if you get there and run into trouble, please send an
email and i/we will help you over any initial hurdles.   michael

> .
>
> Murli



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