Keith wrote: > > I would suggest that if you see this guys name on an email that you delete > without reading, and Tom should dump him from the listserv. Anybody who > thinks fooling around with a virus is funny, is the same guy who would > yell fire in a movie theatre. His IQ certainly isn't high enough to be on > this list!!! > > Keith > N5663F
Well, Keith, many viruses will infect the victim's computer and then AUTOMATICALLY send out a copy of the virus to EVERYONE in the first victim's mailing list. Dick Chevalier is no more to blame than you would have been had you been the unlucky first victim. It is very likely that he didn't know ne was a link in the infection chain until all his e-mail buddies started giving him grief. <sigh> As Bob (facetiously grumpy) Urban said, never run a file you receive from an untrusted source. Any executable file ( .exe or .bat or .com or .doc etc.), I just delete. If I go to the web site of a company I trust as a source, I just download the file then sic my virus protection program on it. Then I run the program. People calling my company for tech support ask us to e-mail files to them. We won't. We don't trust our own corporate computers to be virus free. We just refer them to the web site where, we hope, the programs can be kept virus free. Sorry to be long winded, but everyone who is a member of any mailing list needs to know how to keep their computer practicing safe intercourse: don't run any programs you receive and open other programs cautiously. -- Ed Burkhead Peoria, Ill. Ercoupe N3802H, 415-D
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