On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> When I receive a questionable attachment and recognize who it came from, I
> normally query the sender. If I recognize the attachment as a virus, I let the
> sender know. But then I usually don't have any contact with the sender's
> father.
>
> Currently I have only DR-DOS 7.03 installed and running, so all those viruses do
> to me is look strange. But wouldn't you also be safe with Linux or
> (Free, Net or Open)BSD?
Almost all of these worms and virii are specifically
targetted at OE. Most of them are even more narrowly
targetted at OE on M$, though there have been a very
small percentage that also work on the Mac version of
OE.
Even people who use Netscape as their mailreader on
M$ are largely immune to all this e-mail nonsense.
(disable JS, and they're about as safe as a DOS user)
- Steve
