My university successfully installed a virus filter on incoming mail that removed the virus attachment from all incoming mail before being delivered to the faculty and students. They have done the same for every virus scare recently. My anti-viral software never gets a chance to detect these viruses, they are always removed from my mail before I receive it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 8:53 PM Subject: Re: My apologies to TIPS
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, J L Edwards wrote: > > > > I do apologize profusely for inadvertently sending everyone a > > virus. My work machine was infected, I thought Norton had > > caught it and quarantined it <snip> > > Ah, more evidence for my thesis that virus checkers are useless > because they always work too late. The virus appears to have > slipped through the defenses of my own university system for the > same reason. I wasn't at risk because, almost alone at the > university, I still cling to the old Linux system they would > dearly like to shut down. At home, I have no anti-virus (I > suspect it of causing computer crashes), only one simple rule: > never click on an attachment unless you know, not only whereof it > comes, but also whatof it 'tis. If necessary, I query the sender > first. > > Works for me (so far...). Faith in anti-virus programmes despite > substantial evidence that they don't help seems to be a kind of > superstitious behaviour or (dare I say it?) a new religion. > > -Stephen > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Stephen Black, Ph.D. tel: (819) 822-9600 ext 2470 > Department of Psychology fax: (819) 822-9661 > Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Lennoxville, QC > J1M 1Z7 > Canada Department web page at http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy > Check out TIPS listserv for teachers of psychology at: > http://www.frostburg.edu/dept/psyc/southerly/tips/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
