Hi Folks, Glenn,
On Thu, 24 May 2001 11:32:15 +0000, Ron Clarke wrote:
> Sadly, I have to debug my daily mail download before I open any of
> them. Anti-virus progs don't seem to be able to pick the virii while
> they are still encoded for email transport. Anything suspicious, and I
> look at the *.cnm file with a text editor first, before I open it, even
> in Arachne. Yes, I know that most of them are 32bit-Windows-only virii, but
> one can never be sure.
> We live in a jungle.
Glenn McCorkle wrote:
> There is no need to do this when using Arachne.
> Even if by some chance you get a Dos virus as an attachment.
> Linking to the attached file *will not* run it.
> The attached file will simply be saved to disk (in the directory of
> your choosing, with the name of your choosing).
> This makes it very easy to run a virus checker on just that one file.
> The only possible way of being contaminated by simply "clicking" the
> attachment is if you have uncommented this line in mime.cfg......
> ;file/.exe |@$1
You are perfectly correct, Glenn. But I enjoy being paranoid. :)
And sometimes, when I am a little careless, pickled, or just showing
off, I click more often than I should. So I am ultra-careful. My TEMP
directory is on a ramdisk, I have kept .EXE and .COM inactivated in
Arachne's MIME.CFG, I have F-PROT for DOS, and I am subscribed to VET
for Win 3.1, and I keep spraying my machinery with antiseptic.
Perhaps I should keep moth balls in with my floppy disks ?
Regards,
Ron
(who is not always to be taken seriously)
Ron Clarke http://homepages.valylink.net.au/~ausreg/music.html
-- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Versatile Internet Client
