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drLaser
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Hi,
Just a note that you should all have some anti-virus software if you are on a PC/Windows system, especially if you are using MSIE as your browser or other MS products as your e-mail software - due to the possibility to exploit the MIME settings in these products. (A MS patch is available.)
I get probably at leat 15 viruses every day (which are caught by my anti-virus software.)
The main points that I want to make are the following:
1. New viruses are developed every day. So keep your anti-virus software updated on an almost daily basis.
2. Today's viruses do not always propagate as attachment files to e-mails, and do not even need for you to manually open an attachment file for them to infect your system. They are embedded (and invisible) in the e-mail itself. Merely the downloading of an e-mail may infect your system.
3. Today's viruses also have the capability to pretend that they are coming from unrelated computer. That is, a virus can simply pick any e-mail address in the Inbox of the infected PC, and pretend to be sent from that address. They even can make up e-mail addresses by putting standard aliases like "postmaster" or "webmaster" before the "@..." part of an e-mail address.
AND MOST IMPORTANTLY (for me personally):
Please be assured that 1) "drLaser" systems are protected from viruses in real-time, 2) the hard disks are additionally scanned for viruses twice a day.
I end up getting viruses from "[email protected]" or "[email protected]" probably once a day, but that's because I am on many sailors' address books around the world.
Best regards,
Shevy Gunter
Editor, drLaser
http://www.drLaser.org
Just a note that you should all have some anti-virus software if you are on a PC/Windows system, especially if you are using MSIE as your browser or other MS products as your e-mail software - due to the possibility to exploit the MIME settings in these products. (A MS patch is available.)
I get probably at leat 15 viruses every day (which are caught by my anti-virus software.)
The main points that I want to make are the following:
1. New viruses are developed every day. So keep your anti-virus software updated on an almost daily basis.
2. Today's viruses do not always propagate as attachment files to e-mails, and do not even need for you to manually open an attachment file for them to infect your system. They are embedded (and invisible) in the e-mail itself. Merely the downloading of an e-mail may infect your system.
3. Today's viruses also have the capability to pretend that they are coming from unrelated computer. That is, a virus can simply pick any e-mail address in the Inbox of the infected PC, and pretend to be sent from that address. They even can make up e-mail addresses by putting standard aliases like "postmaster" or "webmaster" before the "@..." part of an e-mail address.
AND MOST IMPORTANTLY (for me personally):
Please be assured that 1) "drLaser" systems are protected from viruses in real-time, 2) the hard disks are additionally scanned for viruses twice a day.
I end up getting viruses from "[email protected]" or "[email protected]" probably once a day, but that's because I am on many sailors' address books around the world.
Best regards,
Shevy Gunter
Editor, drLaser
http://www.drLaser.org