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Re: [OM] Virus Advice

Subject: Re: [OM] Virus Advice
From: Garth Wood <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 15:59:44 -0600
At 05:44 PM 7/25/2001 -0400, John Pendley wrote:

>> But don't you have to click open an attachment to get the virus started?
>>
>> John  Hermanson
> That's always been my understanding, John.  To play it safe, I select from
>the post before it to the one after and delete all three.  If one of the two
>others is a must read, I just delete the suspicious one really fast {;>}.
>I've flushed Annabelle maybe fifteen times today, but she keeps coming back
>for more.

While admirably cautious, this is totally unnecessary.  *You* must do something 
in order to start a Trojan's havoc.  The "social engineering" behind virii such 
as SirCam almost guarantee that some sucke...  er, hapless individual will 
double-click the attachment.

Then the 'fun' starts.

Garth


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