[LargeFormat] Recent Virus
Clive Warren
largeformat@f32.net
Sat Dec 1 19:58:04 2001
At 6:04 pm +0000 1/12/01, philip Lambert wrote:
>Curiously I just this minute had a message from Scoot.com that something I
>sent them had a virus. What is strange about this is I never sent them
>anything. Are you confident about your virus-free list? Philip
Hello Philip,
Yep - totally confident.
As has already been mentioned by Verna and Les, these viri (?)
usually propagate by going through the OutLook EMail address book of
the affected machine and sending themselves out to other people in
the address book.
There is no way that they can be propagated through the mailing list.
Uncle Dick has been very responsible in warning people on the list
that some of you are in his address book and may well receive the
virus. He has also isolated his infected machine until it has been
sorted.
One easy way to avoid infection is by junking OutLook and using a
more professional (and easier to use) Email Client such as Eudora
(http://www.eudora.com) so that you are not subject to the particular
Outlook virus of the month.
I have been using Eudora on PCs and Macs for many years and virus
like EMail attachments have no effect on my machines and are not
transmitted to anyone else through my address book etc.
If you are using Outlook, check your machine for the file that Les
mentioned and if you find it, delete it and do a quick search using
Google - you will find plenty of resources to help you sort out any
infection.
So, the list cannot propagate a virus as EMail attachments are not
permitted - any attachment is stripped out well before the message
reaches the list. I have also made the maximum message size an
appropriate figure so that in the future people who try to post HTML
in a reply or reply to a digest message copying the digest contents
in the reply will also probably exceed the limit and be blocked.
The list is safe!
Cheers,
Clive