Hello, I agree with you about these messages. More then likely
they are spam, and should be treated as such. I disagree about
your statement that the BN family of products are unable to catch
viruses. I've seen this stated time and time again on this list
and I've had a few Humanware Tech support people say the same
thing. I understand with the way that the BN is designed that it
is less susceptible to viruses and such and if and when it picks
up a virus it is limited at the over all damage it can actually
create. But! I still very much think it is possible for it to
get corrupted. Several years ago I experienced something that is
what I would call an email virus. During this time I was
continually receiving failure notices even when I had not sent
out any emails. There were several times that after checking
email, Keymail said "X number of emails sent." When this
happened, there were no emails in the outbox. If this was the
only thing that had happened I would have figured that it was
just a Keymail bugg. After a week or so of both of these things
happening I started receiving emails from Yahoo reporting that
several emails had been flagged because of viruses and that I
needed to fix the problem. The too and from email addresses and
the subject lines ofThe messages, that Yahoo had flagged as well
as the failure notice messages that I received were all foreign
to me. During all of this was one of the times a Humanware Tech
support person had told me that there was no way possible that I
could have picked up a virus. I disagreed with that statement
then and I still don't believe it now. I'm not bad mouthing
Humanware by saying that. I love my BN with it's portability and
it's simplified user friendliness.
Anyway, in the last message from Maurice on this topic he said:
"It could also be that a list member's machine has become
infected with
spyware and is causing the reply to the message originator."
When I first read this the thing that really caught my attention
was the fact that Maurice said machine and not computer or PC.
Maurice, could you please elaborate on what you meant with this
statement? Did you mean that it was possible that someone's
BRAILLENOTE could be corrupted?
Thanks for your time.
Sincerely,
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kate Stephens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "'BrailleNote List'" <[email protected]
Date sent: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:19:29 +1000
Subject: RE: [Braillenote] More Tickets!
Hello All,
Please could you exercise some restraint and NEVER open these
emails--let
alone the links?
If you see the support and ticket in the subject delete the
email--don't
even put it in the trash, it doesn't deserve it.
We should all be grateful that the BN family can't catch viruses,
because
that's what this person is trying to achieve.
If you're like me and get the BrailleNote list on a PC you
shouldn't go
anywhere near these emails.
Please, Please, Please just keep trashing them and ignoring them,
they'll
eventually go away.
Kate
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