Re: virus
- Subject: [sibrob] Re: virus
- From: J* C*
- Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 09:19:07
It is unlikely that the 'cracker' or 'hacker' who originally wrote the
virus, is having anything directly to do with this current problem in
Sibrob. He probably doesn't have a list of your e-mail addresses or even
know what Sibrob is. The nature of these viruses is that they travel from
person to person by way of attatchments, and when your computer becomes
infected, the virus reads your e-mail address book, and sends the
attatchment on to every person in your address book.
Most e-mail readers give you the option of saving peoples adresses in an
address book.
Organised people use these frequently. I don't :-)
If you don't have a list of addresses that the virus can read, you won't
pass the virus on.
Hope that helps ease the confusion a bit, and I hope you all manage to rid
yourself of this virus, and find virus detecting software to avoid future
problems. Not having attatchments permitted on the list is the best
prevention.
If you read from the archives, and there is an attatchment containing a
virus, and you open that attatchment, you can still download the virus to
your computer. Photo's don't seem to present many problems in this
direction.
Cheers, Jan Clark, enjoying glorious Autumn weather in Australia, and
usually lurking in the background on Sibrob.
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