[Rhodes22-list] Virus???

[Rik Sandberg]

Thanks Julie and Michael,

I really don't worry too much about it for myself. I generally run K-Mail and 
Firefox in Xandros(linux) for most of my online stuff anymore. These don't 
seem as vunerable to these attacks, from what I have seen. I do wonder 
though, if it is possible for one of these to get into my email and spread 
this stuff around without me knowing it. Even though it probably can't do 
much to hurt my computer, I do worry that I may inadvertently be spreading 
stuff that would do harm to folks still using MS stuff.

I do have a firewall (2 actually hardware and softwear) and run f-protect. In 
almost a year of using Xandros(linux) I have yet to have found any kind of 
virus in it, other than a script I put in myself, to make sure the virus 
checker was working.

Those of you who are tired of all this crap, might consider giving Xandros a 
try. It's pretty "windows like" as far as using it goes. For me, the iinstall 
was very simple and quick. There are only a couple of things I need to turn 
on MS for at all, anymore. Though it is not free, @ $89 IIRC, for what you 
get, compared to MS prices, it is incedibly cheap.

Next question: How is it that some talk about getting 50 or a 100 spam 
messages a day, and I get hardly any???? Am I just that special? :-) :-) Or 
is this something to do with the difference in ISPs, maybe??? I haven't 
changed my email address in several years.

Rik 


On Wed, Apr 14 2004 07:37 am, Michael Meltzer wrote:
> that is correct sir :-)
>
> ever since "I love you", the writew try to "pick" subject and content that
> will tick you into clicking, part of the problem is ms it self, long ago
> they should have stopped premitting this type of attachment to be
> clickable, the problem is the setting stops all attachments so on one sets
> it.
>
> MJM
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rik Sandberg" <sanderico at earthlink.net>
> To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 2:34 AM
> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Virus???
>
> > Michael,
> >
> > Lately, I've been getting a ton of what appear to be undeliverable
> > returned e-mails.......that I didn't send and don't recognize the address
> > on. They have some kind of attachment, which of course I haven't opened.
> > Is this the newest scam to get us ignorant old farts to open a virus
> > attachment???
> >
> > Keep your eyes open guys. Seems there's a new trick every day.
> >
> > Rik
> >
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