>What's up
with thus guy? How long has he been a >member?
Does anyone know him? The email addy he >gives is
definately "bogus". Ok Ok. Sorry Jeff, I know its not AACT related –but I feel
compelled to say something on this one. Viruses happen to the best of us – a viruses
job is to get sent to, and received by, the unaware – don’t blame him unless he’s
been proven guilty of malicious behavior.
And changing one’s reply-to address when
subscribed to email lists is a common thing – and a smart thing
– to give him some credit. A lot of
the spam coming into your inbox is there because of subscriptions to email
lists. Your email address is
available to anyone wanting to harvest it – some lists block this, others don’t
– but hackers are very good at their ‘jobs’… Just because someone has a bogus return address, and
because a virus was attached to his message does NOT imply that he’s a bad guy,
or placed it there by intent.
Reading some of his past posts – I doubt he’s of the malicious type. Its easy. If
you don’t have virus detection software GET IT and keep it up to date. If you receive attachments of unknown
origin, or unknown types DON’T OPEN THEM – Just delete the message and its
attachment. Its part of being
on the Internet, and will be for its life (only to get worse) -- get used to it. Just prepare yourself. Please don’t start labeling people if viruses are attached
to their messages – it WILL happen to you too, its only a matter of when. It’s the internet way. Your systems are only protected as much
as your detection software is, kinda –McAfee, Trend and Symantec can only stay on
top of a percentage of the millions of new viruses released every day too. Some WILL get through. As the great Dr E would end with: Ok?
(grin) Good luck, Mike, Ain’t AACT great stuff? JMT systems
consulting Software Development / Network Administration www.jmtsystems.com -- info@jmtsystems.com Ofc: 509 968-9015 /
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