[AMRadio] Virus/Worm

[Gary Pewitt]

Download a free copy of Eudora.  It's far less vulnerable to these virus 
attacks.  It's a fine mail reader too.


At 12:53 PM 4/24/02 -0400, you wrote:
>McAffee or Norton, etc might not be enough just by themselves. You may
>very well have to DISABLE certain options in Micro$erft Outlook or
>OutlookExpress such that ALL SCRIPTS are disabled, that auto-execution is
>DISABLED, etc.
>
>As time goes on and this SAME dopey situation persists with Micro$erft
>products, I begin to feel left out, since I've yet to participate in this
>continuing agony. Online since '92- Internet since mid-'95 and I'm running
>the same Wintel hardware as the Windoz users, too. I could understand it
>if I ran different hardware like Mac or most Sun & SGI boxen, or even
>Linux on Wintel. So the weakness is clearly just in Windoz
>system/applications.
>
>Also, you may already have taken the steps mentioned above. I'm lacking
>any direct experience, unfortunately, so seek special help from guru
>types.
>
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>Bill    K2AME       Hosstraders at: Hopkinton, NH starts May 3rd ! !
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>
>
>In <5.1.0.14.2.20020424114633.00a361c0 at mail.gte.net>, on 04/24/2002
>    at 11:49 AM, anthony deprato <anthony.deprato at gte.net> said:
>
>
> >>SNIP    I have received e-mail from several HAM buddies with an attachment
> >>that my
>
> >I have been for the past two weeks or so getting  6 to 8 a day. my Mcafee
> > catches them. and they are all looking like i am sending them to others.
> >i  have scanned by machine 4 times and have the newest updates added
> >daily. what is going on is it is picking out a email address off the
> >servers and  then generating emails too look like they are coming from
> >you. really a pain in the backside.
> >73 Tony
>
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