Hi Allie,
On 26 December 2000 at 19:31:54 -0500 (which was 00:31 where I
live) A . Curtis Martin wrote and made these points:
ME>> I agree with you here, a good AV program is *never* superfluous. TB
ME>> isn't the *only* program running accessing the internet and there are
ME>> always the floppy disks.
ACM> I don't think Marck is or ever was saying that anti-virus
ACM> software is superfluous. He was simply saying that TB! will not
ACM> infect your machine with a virus unless you specifically
ACM> intervene by running the virus. TB! will not execute malicious
ACM> java script in HTML e-mail. That's all he was saying.
Exactly right. As I said, I do run an AV program to check whether
something that's come in is infected or not.
ME>> So I think Marck has been lucky so far...but his time will come
ME>> one day.. (I whish you the best though Marck).
I do not use luck when it comes to computer systems. I prefer to use
knowledge :-) - It's my business. I first got into microcomputer
communications in 1984, 10 years after I first used a computer and - I
saw my first virus a few years later. I have intercepted and
eliminated virus infections for friends and colleagues but I have
*never* been infected myself.
ACM> ... they simply cannot run the attachments but only can view them
ACM> or scan them for viruses.
I wouldn't like that :-). I do get executable attachments from sources
that I know to be as knowledgeable as myself. I am in software
development after all :-).
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Cheers,
.\\arck
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