Last Apple class I attended about 50% of were former PC people who were tired of the worm, virus, crash events and expenses of the PC world. Oh well... Christine
> From: Mike Monett <[email protected]> > Re: CS>virus reaction > From: David Bearrow > Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 05:17:50 > >> I don't think it is a diabolical person who is on the list that is >> attacking the list maliciously. Most of the bad emails have been >> infected with various worms. These worms were cleverly written to >> not only harvest email addresses from its victim but it also >> harvests the emails themselves and creates emails based on content >> it finds in the email it harvests. Occams razor tells me that >> likely one or more people on our list have been infected with one >> of the new cleverly written worms. >> Dave > > Good point, Dave. It could be a worm. You'd think if it was a worm, > more people on the list would get these emails. But they only seem > to affect one or two people at a time. > > I tried to send several emails to the sender's address. They were > all different, and they all bounced. It is true a worm could fake an > address, but in order to create the most havoc, they generally leave > the address valid so people would blame an innocent person. On the > other hand, a malicious sender would definitely fake his return > address to avoid detection. > > And how would a worm know that Jonathan was interested in Flax Oil? > > The last time this phrase occurs in the subject line is Jonathan's > post titled "CS>EPA/DHA (Fish Oil, Flax Oil)" on 8 Oct 2001: > > http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/m40762.html > > A worm would not search the list archives and locate a phrase that > would be of interest to Jonathan. Also, he received his virus > recently. So it's hard to tell for sure, but I tend to lean towards > an individual as the source of these messages. > > But, as in everything associated with the internet, always practice > save hex:) > > Turn off javascript, and disable html. All of these help a virus > writer gain access to your computer. Although there are many methods > available that don't need any user action to load a virus. > > The safest is to follow the recommendations of many groups, and > don't use Microsoft products on the internet. They will never fix > all the holes in their products. > > Use Firefox instead of MS Explorer, and any of the numerous email > clients instead of Outlook. > > And be very careful of attachments. Perhaps someone knows of a > scanner that can check email attachments for executables and delete > them. > > But I don't have to worry - they won't even run on my system:) > > Best Wishes, > > Mike Monett -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
