[Meteor-Scatter] Re: [WSVHF] All: The current worm

[SteveH]

At Friday, 29 August 2003, "Shelby Ennis, W8WN" <vhfw8wn@bbtel.com> 
wrote:
>Moral of this story - If someone tells you that your computer 
>is infected, it may or may not be.
>But a *whole bunch are* infected!  If you haven't updated your 
>virus protection this week, it may be too late for you!

Infection-protection for any of these nasties is really very simple:

JUST SAY NO TO THE USE OF ANY HTML- OR JAVA-ENABLED E-MAILER, such 
as Outhouse, Lotus Notes, Netscape's Messenger, etc.. 

Instead, get smart and ONLY use a plain-text e-mailer such as the 
old, ancient Eudora Lite or Pegasus or even, if you must, the later 
Eudora reconfigured for plain text. All of them nasties will wind 
up cold and dead in your inbox and remain that way forever until 
you trash the message.

At the very least, if you insist on using html e-mailers, TURN OFF 
YOUR MESSAGE PREVIEW FEATURE, which automatically executes embedded 
javascript as soon as the message is displayed, and thus leaves you 
wide open to all kinds of nasty effects, such as telling spammers 
that you've opened their spam-mail.

And ALWAYS delete any unexpected or unusual attachment without opening 
it.

73,
Steve K0XP



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