Re: *** ADMIN: Viruses

You da man, David.


Paul Nelson
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"Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of 
others are often stiffened." ~~ Billy Graham




David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Folks:

Once again there is a batch of viruses in distribution via email that 
are forging the 'from' address.

Please keep in mind that, if you get a virus from someone, it's probably 
not being sent from them at all ... but someone else with both the 
apparent sender and you have corresponded with.

Unfortunately, this means that it's possible for a virus to be sent to a 
mailing list.

I am running active virus protection (two different virus scanners, 
f-prot & clamav) which seems to be catching everything that has been 
thrown at it.

Rest assured, however, that even if the virus were to get past the virus 
scanner ... the virus payload would be removed from the email before it 
gets distributed so only the text portion of the message could possibly 
get distributed.

As always, please make sure you are running virus protection on your 
systems and that your virus definitions are up to date.  A current 
backup doesn't hurt either :)

If you have questions about virus protection, feel free to post a 
message in the PCTECH mailing list 
(http://lists.midrange.com/listinfo/pctech) or contact me directly.

david

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