Y'all,
The best way to not get a virsus is
that and I think many said this before. Is not to open
the file and not to download it. What I do is if
someone send me a file, before I accept anyting. Or do
anything I ask myself do I know this person. If I
don't then it goes in my trash box. I have down it
once to a Rangernet and I forgot he was on it. Also I
did it once to Josh. See one of Josh friend on his
sims stuff sent his list a attachment. I didn't know
it was someone Josh knew. So I pressed no when it
asked me to receive it. Have a bless day
John
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John Evans
Maryville AG
" " Royal Rangers
Opost 7th
IL
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999 09:12:54 Soaring Golden Eagle wrote:
>From time to time, people send email virus warnings to everyone they know.
>I get several a week, and I get kind of tired of them. Because some
>misguided soul has unleashed yet another email virus on the world, I'm
>issuing a preemptive educational strike with this message in hopes that we
>can quickly put this behind us and keep focused on the main purpose of this
>list.
>
>There are 4 main categories of email virii:
>
>1. Attached executable files.
>
>You have to run the attached executable to get one of these. Happy99.exe is
>the prime example, here. If you get this program emailed to you, don't run
>it. If you get any executable program mailed to you, don't run it unless
>you know what it is and where it came from. (Note that Happy99.exe will
>come from someone you know, but they won't know they sent it.)
>
>2. Word macro (and other macro language) virii.
>
>The prime example here is the "Melissa" virus. If you get a message with an
>attached Word file (or Excel, or whatever), don't run it with macros
>enabled (especially if the subject includes "Important message from " and
>has a file called list.doc attached. Right now, before you do anything
>else, open up Microsoft Word and make sure that under Tools/Options/General
>the "Enable macro virus protection" box is checked. Then if you open a Word
>attachment and it asks for permissions to run macros, don't let it unless
>you know where it came from, what it is, and why it needs to run macros.
>
>Please see
>http://www.zdnet.com/zdhelp/stories/main/0,5594,2233116-6,00.html for more
>about this.
>
>3. Chain letters and hoaxes.
>
>This is BY FAR the most common type of virus. It isn't strictly a computer
>virus, because it can't reproduce itself except by tricking the recipient
>into mailing it on to everyone they know. Never forward a chain letter.
>Never forward a virus warning (including ones I write) without checking
>them out with reputable sources, first.
>
>4. Fancy HTML and Javascript virii.
>
>These are theoretically possible, but I haven't seen any of these in
>reality, yet. Set the "security" settings in your browser intelligently,
>and you shouldn't have a problem, here.
>
>Now, back to your regularly scheduled mailing list...
>
>
>Michael Paul Johnson
>aka Soaring Golden Eagle
>PO Box 1151, Longmont CO 80502-1151, USA
>Rocky Mountain outpost 207, New Creation Church
>Jesus Christ is Lord!
>
>
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