Heh. Sorry to add to the static, but 'heh'. And while I'm at it, yall
have some nifty discussions, this is a great resourse, etc. etc.

=]

-ps I'm still glad fer the cleaners. I know what a .bat can do...


On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Mark H. Wood wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Charles Stack wrote:
> > What's really irritating is the frequency of virus laden messages and SPAM
> > on the mail list.  This is a security related list...you'd think the people
> > on it would be smart enough to know to run a virus scanner if they are
> > running a Windows mail client.
>
> Look more carefully.  Much of the noise is caused by misdesigned virus
> scanners which assume that any attachment matching the patterns *.com or
> *.exe is a virus, or which assume that any attachment *at all* is a virus.
> In addition, if they were written properly they wouldn't send their
> warnings to a mailing list.
>
> I consider that in a way this noise is a valuable service.  I certainly
> would never use or recommend any of the products which misdetect viruses
> that aren't there and then send their warnings to the wrong address.
>
> --
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> Make a good day.
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