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At 11:02 AM 11/12/00 -0800, Kevin E. Ramsey RPT wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite cite>Here, Here, I vote for the attachments
also.</blockquote><br>
Me too. The best way to avoid e-mail viruses is to never ever ever
run Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express on your PC. No, this is
not just the usual MicroSquish Bashing. Outlook is the best
platform virus writers ever had. It routinely by default executes
code sent to you without your knowledge or permission, in enough
different situations that I have long ago given up on identifying them
all.<br>
<br>
There are other fine e-mail readers out there. I highly recommend
Qualcomm's Eudora. With Eudora I can clearly see all the
attachments and they are never opened unless I explicitly double-click on
them. Their file types are never hidden from me. <br>
<br>
A common ruse in Outlook is to attach a file that Outlook says is, for
example, a ".gif" file, when in fact it is really an executable
".exe" or ".pif" file. Under some
circumstances, Outlook will show a file called
"piano_picture.gif.exe" as simply
"piano_picture.gif". Then when you click on it, instead
of seeing a picture, you have just executed the virus, which can now do
*anything* at all to your computer.<br>
<br>
Once you can see the true file types of all attachments, you can make
informed decisions about what to do with them. I immediately delete
any executable code sent to me by someone I don't know, really well.
;-) Things that I believe are pictures I "open" with
Photoshop. If they don't display correctly, they also get
deleted.<br>
<br>
Using these techniques, I have never been infected via e-mail. (I
did once get infected by an MS Word virus embedded in a Word document
sent to me by an unwitting client, but that's another story.
;-)<br>
<br>
Best Regards,<br>
Greg<br>
<br>
<br>
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<blockquote type=cite cite>----- Original Message -----<br>
From: <JIMRPT@AOL.COM><br>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org><br>
Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2000 8:30 AM<br>
Subject: Re: attachements<br>
<br>
<br>
> <<"Hi Andy,<br>
><br>
> If this is a democracy, then I vote *for*
attachements.">>Don R.<br>
><br>
> I agree with Don here Andy...if I had my druthers we should
keep<br>
attachments.<br>
><br>
> That having been said I think that 'almost' everyone on the
list would be<br>
> willing to accede to whatever deecision you make on this
point.<br>
> Jim Bryant (FL)<br>
><br>
></blockquote><br>
<div>___________________________________________________________________</div>
<div>Greg
Anderson
greg@PlanetBeagle.com </div>
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