[Dx-qsl] Virus

[Tru Perry]

Hello John:

I understand your frustration regarding virus contamination.  Unfortunately,
so many people will spend thousands of dollars getting a terrific computer
and related equipment, but will not spend a couple bucks to purchase/install
a virus detecting program, such as Norton Anti-Virus, or any other reputable
anti virus program.

One thing I can assure you though, you will not get a virus via e-mail
through this reflector.  Most viruses require an executable file (a file name
with an extension such as .exe.)  Dave Haney, W3SJ, has taken the huge task
of maintaining this reflector, and it is a priority with him that no such
attachment can be processed through his system and sent to the reflector's
subscribers.  Two things are stripped from any message addressed to this
reflector: (1) no attachments and (2) no HTML.  Tell me if I'm wrong here
Dave....  And that will prevent the spreading of viruses to all of us through
this reflector.  So, I'm suggesting that the contaminated e-mails you are
getting are from other sources.

Quite often you will see on a posting from a subscriber with a notice at the
bottom stating that something has been removed, but the remainder of the text
is still intact.  That is because Dave's program has filtered the
attachment/.exe file and therefore guarded against the possible transmission
of any viruses.

Hope that helps John.

Dave, any comments??

73/DX
Tru, VE6TP
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John C Owens wrote:

> I am addressing this to the 3 email reflectors that I am signed up to
> concerning some recent virus related emails that I have received. I have
> no idea which portal the arrived through or how they got my email
> address, but they originated from a site called ogieblyn@parkcity.ne.jp
> and each contained an attachment with the key word KISS. I have never
> opened any of these attachments which is my long running policy to avoid
> viruses that get passed along via attachments. I immediately deleted
> these emails. I am running the latest version of Norton Antivirus, and it
> didn't catch it. I have probably received around a dozen emails all
> related to this source. Following the receipt of these emails, I usually
> get an email from some email processing system (EXIM or other) that has
> bounced an email falsely originated from me to some other unknown
> destination (eg  palmtree@fidalgo.net) that contained an attachment of an
> executable file usually named jcowens3.kiss.ok.exe that was flagged as
> being something containing a virus. Has anyone else received anything
> resembling this or know anything about it?? Just trying to help others
> avoid a new virus.
>
> John Owens (N7SEJ)
>
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