On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 at 19:09:20, you wrote:
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Norman Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)
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>> I got a private email Geoff.
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>Thanks, also to Tony.
>
>The reason I posed this question was that you were the only people to report
>the virus, but you would have expected a lot more QLers to have caught it.
>If it writes to everyone in the address book, it means that it was also sent
>to this group but we were protected from it. Nice to know.
>
>It rather reminds me of the early days of the aids scare, when a single
>doctor said that the amazing thing was not the number of people who were
>HIV+, but the number of people who were not.
>
>I know if my address book were to become infected, all ql traders and many
>of my clients would be getting an unwanted "present" from me. Fortunately I
>have never had virus trouble, although I regularly get a suspicious spam. I
>examined it on a QL (aren't we lucky we can do that) and it seems more like
>an attempt to plant a trojan than a virus.
I don't run M$ mail programs - that is the reason I don't spread them!
I would love to run a QL mail program - not least because it would
simplify mailing lists.
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