Re: email virus's (thread going to be OT)

Thu, 04 May 2000 16:07:54 -0700 

Hello!


Thursday, May 04, 2000, 22:29, phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

First please excuse me for the OT.

> ... Batting Cage: The The Bat!'s ability to isolate a virus.
                                              ^^^^^^^
I think you're wrong here :-). The Bat! _doesn't have_ an ability to
_isolate/stop/cure etc._ a particular malicious code - in our case The
Love Letter worm. TB! simply doesn't automatically execute some code OR
doesn't connect to the Internet on demand made by some HTML attachment
with a link to a (probably) destructive content. In our world - an
Internet world - the rule saying that a good programmer shouldn't write
such a automatic-overloaded code becomes very important. But not to M$
:-(, as you can see...

TB! is just a very good e-mail client, not an antivirus software. And
please remember that at least 50% of the computer virus infections were,
are and will be (sad...) made possible only by the inattentive users.
Most of them doesn't care about elementary rules of safe hex :-)... Sad
by true (C) TB! ;-)

P.S. "Safe hex" isn't my expression - I have read it some years ago.


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Best regards,

Andrey G. Sergeev (AKA Andris)     http://www.andris.msk.ru/

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