Re: [newbie]: Virus talk and kmail, direct connection

2001-08-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 12:47, Judith Miner wrote: Alan wrote: just read about the SirCam virus - do I panic slowly? You don't panic at all. In order to get infected, you have to open the attachment that contains the virus. I assume you don't open attachments you weren't expecting to get and

Re: [newbie]: Virus talk and kmail, direct connection

2001-08-01 Thread James S Bear
Maybe I am under-paranoid or under-informed or something, but all this talk of viruses is getting to me as well. I see the time spent worrying about viruses as being better spent backing up data or playing with kids or something. People spend more time and money (not as accurate in the linux

Re: [newbie]: Virus talk and kmail, direct connection

2001-08-01 Thread James S Bear
Hey--and does the one that says something about hi, i'd like your advice about this come with a file attached in *.pif format? If so, I think I got it. Maybe I have had viruses and just didn't know it. What does this virus do? jim Quoting Judith Miner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Alan wrote: just

Re: [newbie]: Virus talk and kmail, direct connection

2001-08-01 Thread Paul
Hey--and does the one that says something about hi, i'd like your advice about this come with a file attached in *.pif format? If so, I think I got it. Maybe I have had viruses and just didn't know it. What does this virus do? jim That;s the one. You recognise it because it has 2

Re: [newbie]: Virus talk and kmail, direct connection

2001-08-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 22:49, Paul wrote: Hey--and does the one that says something about hi, i'd like your advice about this come with a file attached in *.pif format? If so, I think I got it. Maybe I have had viruses and just didn't know it. What does this virus do? jim That;s the one.

Re: [newbie]: Virus talk and kmail, direct connection

2001-08-01 Thread Randy Kramer
James S Bear wrote: Hey--and does the one that says something about hi, i'd like your advice about this come with a file attached in *.pif format? If so, I think I got it. Maybe I have had viruses and just didn't know it. What does this virus do? See

Re: [newbie]: Virus talk and kmail, direct connection

2001-08-01 Thread Carroll Grigsby
Randy Kramer wrote: James S Bear wrote: Hey--and does the one that says something about hi, i'd like your advice about this come with a file attached in *.pif format? If so, I think I got it. Maybe I have had viruses and just didn't know it. What does this virus do? See

Re: [newbie]: Virus talk and kmail, direct connection

2001-08-01 Thread etharp
what did you read that (as a linux user) would make you panic? I got about six of them last week, the delete key worked great... got to see all the code and headers and stuff all had the same reply to address and Judy was correct about the hi I would like your advice, On Monday 30 July 2001

Re: [newbie]: Virus talk and kmail, direct connection

2001-07-31 Thread Judith Miner
Alan wrote: just read about the SirCam virus - do I panic slowly? You don't panic at all. In order to get infected, you have to open the attachment that contains the virus. I assume you don't open attachments you weren't expecting to get and that you check ALL attachments, regardless of file

Re: [newbie]: Virus talk and kmail, direct connection

2001-07-30 Thread Paul
It was Mon, 30 Jul 2001 20:58:00 +0200 when alan wrote: # The anti virus programmes, it seems to me, are used in conjuction with fetchmail/postfix/sendmail/qmail/procmail/etc where the mail is intercepted before being received or sent. Am I right in this assumption? Yup. # If I am wrong then

RE: [newbie]: Virus talk and kmail, direct connection

2001-07-30 Thread Franki
you don't need to worry about windows virus's damaging your linux install, however, if you have an infected file on your linux box and you retrive that file for windows, you can infect your windows install.. if you want to protect windows clients from virus's coming through your linux gateway,