Now, Now, Lany,AAAaaaaarrghghghghgh! Frankie? Did you have to do that? Now that Stephen knows that we appreciate common sense we'll never get a decent day's work out of him. Damn! Welcome to "Stephen, The Next Generation" ! LOL!
But since we're on the subject of viruses, and since I've been way to
busy to read every single last post on this subject, I'd
like to ask one thing. Has anyone told the list that an infected
email received on this list may not have come from the person named? These types of viruses will (if activated on a
WinBlow$-handicapped system), will run to the address book, grab all
the
addresses in the book, and send out infected emails USING the stolen
addresses?
So, if I'm in Stephen or Frankie's address books, I'm safe (because
they use Linux, and NOT Outlook, or Outlook Express! Right Guys??). But if I'm in someone else's address book, and that
address book is the ill-concieved Windows Address Book,
infected emails will not only be sent to me, but can also be sent to
others USING my address, and NOT the address of the originating user.
So, "John Smith" ( not his real name ) could have me in his WAB
(Windows Address Book), Sobig could infect his system,
because John is narrow-minded, and still uses Windows (IMHO), and an
infected email could be sent from his PC using MY address as the "From" address, when in fact it's John's ( that lazy
ba$tard - I'll fix him for this, I swear!) PC that the virus and email came from!
End result? I get dumped on by 300 recipients ( See my reference to John's heritage above ), who think I sent it, and I may even get crapped on by John ( who I've just taken a contract out on at this point! ), because some other idiot in his address book, got infected, and had John's address in his book, but the virus used my email address and sent it BACK to John!
Needless to say, John's day's are numbered at this point, and I
wouldn't want to be in his shoes when "Guido" (also not his real
name) shows up with a small-calibre, silencer-equipped handgun, and
"ventilates" John, after which the party starts at my place!
And you wonder why people on this list use linux? It's because we
need to save our money so we can pay guys like Guido to take care of all the "John's" in this world!
Ok, so like I was saying,...If someone has already mentioned this kind of thing in the Virus-related posts to the list then please ingore this diatribe. But John? You better start running, buddy! Guido's coming!
Did that help at all? Grin! Grin!
Lanman
We must be more careful what we are saying , because that John he's not a Windblows user, wouldn't dream of letting his friend Lanny get infected by a windblows virus, and he's the kind of guy that has Guido's of his own.
John
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