Re: MTX virus

2000-12-22 Thread Ming-Li
On Thursday, December 21, 2000, 12:53:56 PM, Bob wrote: > We use TB v1.41 and got hit with the MTX virus twice in the past > month. The person who handles email for my company has been > trained not to open attachments, and she claims she has never done > so. Is she the only

Re: MTX virus

2000-12-21 Thread Douglas Hinds
Hello Marck & other fellow TB! Users following this thread, Thursday, December 21, 2000, you relied to Nick regarding older versions of TB having a virus vulnerability here.: NA>> If I am not mistaken, those viruses came to the List with a NA>> *.pif and *.scr attachment which TB! should not h

Re[2]: MTX virus

2000-12-21 Thread Stefan Tanurkov
Good [morning|afternoon|day|evening|night] Bob, BR> The MTX virus arrives attached to a message with empty body text. BR> Was there an exposure in v1.41 that would allow the attached BR> executable to launch without explicit action from a user? In no version of The Bat! a fi

Re: MTX virus

2000-12-21 Thread A . Curtis Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 21:40:17 +, Marck D. Pearlstone wrote these words of wisdom: NA>> If I am not mistaken, those viruses came to the List with a *.pif NA>> and *.scr attachment which TB! should not have tried to open NA>> despite having no text

Re: MTX virus

2000-12-21 Thread Marck D. Pearlstone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Nick, On 21 December 2000 at 13:17:37 -0800 (which was 21:17 where I live) Nick Andriash wrote and made these points: BR>> executable to launch without explicit action from a user? I'm BR>> wondering if The Bat tries to show an attachment when th

Re: MTX virus

2000-12-21 Thread Nick Andriash
On December 21, 2000, at 12:53:56 PM, Bob Rankin Wrote: BR> The MTX virus arrives attached to a message with empty body text. BR> Was there an exposure in v1.41 that would allow the attached BR> executable to launch without explicit action from a user? I'm BR> wondering if

Re: MTX virus

2000-12-21 Thread A . Curtis Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When I saw Bob's message about "MTX virus ", I felt like making these comments: [snipped] BR> I've downloaded v1.48f, since it talks about virus protection in the BR> new features. Does the install program gracefully upgra

re: MTX virus

2000-12-21 Thread Bob Rankin
Hi, We use TB v1.41 and got hit with the MTX virus twice in the past month. The person who handles email for my company has been trained not to open attachments, and she claims she has never done so. The MTX virus arrives attached to a message with empty body text. Was there an exposure in