Leonard wrote: >About the spam from Amsterdam (ooh--a poem!)--Has anyone determined whether >or not it is "toxic"? I'm running Mac OS X and virus updates for it are few >and far between, so perhaps I'm safe. It would be nice to have warning, >however, if anyone knows.
I don't know if it's toxic or not as I caught it on my ISP's web client and never let it hit my PC. However if you're running a Mac you very likely don't need to be concerned. This appears to be an email virus of some sort that has grabbed Arthur's address book and propagated. A rule to the wise, email by an of itself can not contain a virus. Attachments on emails can and this is how they're propagated. But they don't work if you don't open the attachment. Some email is getting clever with embedded html that upon opening the email goes out to a site and starts reading your PC. This is where a really good firewall comes in handy, and I suggest redundant software and hardware firewalls as well as anti-virus software. This is what I use and my system has remained clean. Regards, Craig To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
