Brian Fesler wrote: > I agree. However, a little rightful consternation can be > thought towards the person who was running without virus > protection and got himself infected and passed it on. > Kind of ill-mannered, like not washing your hands before > you serve dinner to your guests.
I think that you misunderstood the situation. One of these viruses picks up addresses from email lists on the computer it infects, so the owner of the email address may have done nothing more stupid than to be on someone else's email list. I got a number of delivery failures because of attached viruses. I traced these emails back to the originating computer at Harvard. So someone at Harvard has my email address. I'm not sure what that says about being ill-mannered. Updating virus software doesn't always help. The first and only one that I got caught on, was the first "social engineering" email virus a few years ago. It was a day later before there were virus updates and although I knew it was emailing from my machine, when I called the University email help line they had no clue what I was talking about. I think they're a little wiser now. My rule is NEVER open attaches that you're not expecting, and email the sender for confirmation when you're not sure. Michael Atherton Prospect Park TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain - change the subject (Mpls-specific, of course.) ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
