On Tue, 04 Jun 2002 16:55:41 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: > I won't be migrating anywhere soon. The only way I feel SAFE in using > an untrustworthy dangerous OS from M$ -- 98SE, w2k -- is the sure > knowledge that using Arachne to get my mail protects me better than even > the best virus protectors out there. You see, Arachne won't run an > attachment ... regardless of what that attachment is; the best virus > protection around can't protect you from something new, so running > dozerwarez means you have a better than 50% chance of getting clobbered, > IMNSHO
% Hello L.D.: % Your NSHO is 100% correct on this issue. I have recently received % several brand new viruses on the very day after they were first % discovered. I sure am glad I wasn't running dozerware when I opened % the virulent messages. I'm sure you and all the other list members % are happy about that too. If I were running dozerware my computer % would have become an SMTP server for sending countless copies of the % viruses to you and to everyone else. I would have been completely % clueless and oblivious to the fact that I was being very annoying to % everyone out there. % Sam Heywood Any POP3 client, to be considered networthy, should not execute any attachments automatically. Viewing the raw data as in a text editor is a good precaution when in doubt about what's in a message, you don't want Javascript or VBScript capability. I would guess that nobody has ever become infected with a virus using Arachne for the POP3 download. I got 8 Klez messages in one day from the same sender, totaling about 1.44 MB, following three (?) earlier such messages, before he cleaned his system with tools downloaded from Symantec. Last download, there was no Klez, but I got one Snowhite message, after I thought that virus had faded out of circulation.
