Re: [JAVA3D] Virus problems

[Paul Cohen]

Just make sure your virus scanner is up to date (and I mean up to date as these days you need to keep on top of it) and you should not have a problem. Norton picked up all the current virus attachments from this list and I use outlook, which is an incredibly useful PIM tool apart from just email.   The problem is not the email clients, it's your virus scanner:-) Something we have to live with in todays environment.   It's annoying to get them, but with good tools you can minimise the risk and still have attachments. -----Original Message----- From: Discussion list for Java 3D API [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Davies Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 10:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] Virus problems Perhaps if everyone stopped using Microsoft email clients we wouldn't have this problem!  Please don't ban/stop attachements, they're very useful in this list. -John- Josh Richmond wrote:  Personally I think attachments are useful in this type of forum. Especially when a jpg is worth a hundred lines of code ;-) Can we not just block messages from the offending email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? This seems the best solution to me. It's likely he doesn't know he's affected and the virus is replying to all his incoming email. josh >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/05/01 08:28AM >>> "Yazel, David J." wrote: > > The e-mail administrator here at work is a little peeved at me because of > the viruses coming from this list.  If this continues they are going to ask > me to un-subscribe from the list.  That will reduce my contributions to this > list to the evening hours. Easiest way is for the list admins to ban attachments to the list. They either get stripped or the email gets bounced completely. The listserv software that Sun is using for this list, it is just a one line config change (if it's the software I think they are using!). Coincidently that would also get rid of all attachments like images and large code chunks and that would make me very happy too :) As usual, hassle the list admins (easiest to find at archives.java.sun.com) or at least see if we can get one of the J3D team (maybe Micheal) to hassle the list admins.... -- Justin Couch                         http://www.vlc.com.au/~justin/ Freelance Java Consultant                  http://www.yumetech.com/ Author, Java 3D FAQ Maintainer                  http://www.j3d.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- "Humanism is dead. Animals think, feel; so do machines now. Neither man nor woman is the measure of all things. Every organism processes data according to its domain, its environment; you, with all your brains, would be useless in a mouse's universe..."                                               - Greg Bear, Slant ------------------------------------------------------------------- =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST".  For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".