Better still. Switch to Pine. That is the only thing protecting me from
all of the recent email viruses.
Kiran
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> There are a few members who have unfortunately picked up one or another of
> the nasty v-i-r-u-s-e-s going around. There are extensive filters in place
> to prevent most of these from being sent out via the mailing list itself, as
> well as message size limit of 20Kb that usually blocks these sort of
> messages (and many commercial ones).
>
> A number of members have received infected mail recently - that's because
> infected systems usually reply automatically to messages received (or to a
> random selection of these). Birding-aus is set up so that when a message is
> REPLIED to the reply goes to the ORIGINAL sender and not the mailing list. I
> can't change that - it is a condition of the host, Vicnet.
>
> So ...
> 1. member xyz sends a message to the list
>
> 2. it is received by member abc whose system is already infected with a worm
> or other v-i-r-u-s
>
> 3. the v-i-r-u-s forces an automatic reply (to the original sender) that
> includes an attachment. This attachment usually has a file extension that
> tricks windows into opening the attachment, and PRESTO! Another person's
> computer is infected.
>
> How do you stay safe? Set up your email program and/or web browser to NEVER
> open attachments, and make sure you never open any manually unless (A) you
> know who they come from and more importantly (B) you know WHAT the attachment
> is and WHY it has been sent to you.
>
> A good policy is to NEVER open an attachment without doble-checking its
> source and validity with the sender.
>
> And some people wonder why we frown on attachments on this mailing list......
>
>
> Russell Woodford
> List Administrator
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3rd yr physics
(Falkiner High Energy Physics)
University of Sydney
NSW 2006
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