Anti Virus

[Ken Blackwell]

Ron,

You have taken one major step in preventing virus problems by having a 
McIntosh. I read an article the other day stating that there were something 
like 60 Mac virus' vs 6000 PC virus'.....I'm not sure about the 
numbers....but close.

Ken B

PC owner who constantly works at keeping the things going.)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Van Putte" <vanputte at cox.net>
To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: Anti Virus


>
> On Nov 9, 2004, at 11:35 AM, Doug Cronkhite wrote:
>
>> Something you guys need to understand about this virus.. and maybe it's
>> already been covered here.
>>
>> Basically what it does is spam out phony messages attempting to propagate
>> the virus using addresses it finds in the infected host's address book. 
>> So
>> Tony doesn't have a virus, just someone who has Radio South's email 
>> address
>> in their address book does. So it sends out a message masquerading as 
>> Tony
>> in hopes someone else will open it, thereby infecting another user.
>>
>> One should note.. this only happens in Microsoft Outlook and Outlook
>> Express. If you use any other email program, this particular virus does
>> nothing to you.
>
> I think we should impose the death penalty on the perpetrators, if they 
> get caught, and that should slow down those who might think about doing it 
> in the future.  <BG>
>
> Ron Van Putte  (Macintosh owner)
>
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