================================================ Subject: Re: virus alert bad bad From: "Lisa G King" To: Date: Wed 16 May 2001 00:57:07 -0700 ================================================ You succeeded very well, thank you Lisa King who ins saving this page on wordpad for future reference On Tue, 15 May 2001 08:51:48 -0400 "Tara" writes: > I don't know much about juno... do you get e-mail in html, or is it > text > only? Safest thing to do is to set it to text only, because there's > no way > (thus far, at least) to pass a virus through plain text e-mail. > Usually > viruses are sent as attachments, so the safest thing to do is not to > open > any attachments with a .exe extension or an extension you don't > recognize. > A lot of people say "Just don't open attachments from people you > don't > know", but that can backfire on you. Some viruses (like the "I Love > You" > virus) automatically send themselves to everyone in your address > book, so > it's possible to be sent a virus from a friend without them meaning > to. > Also, scan any attachments you get before you open them. The > extensions I > can think of to specifically watch out for are *.exe and *.vbs - > those seem > to be the most common virus extensions. A couple good pages to > check out > for more information are http://www.antivirus.com/vinfo/vprimer.htm > (a virus > primer) and http://www.antivirus.com/vinfo/safe_computing/ (tells > you how to > set your computer in the safest way). Scott would normally be the > person > who'd handle a question like this, but since he's sleeping, I > decided to try > and help out... hope I succeeded. > Tara > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Lisa G King > To: > Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 4:01 AM > Subject: Re: virus alert bad bad > > > > question for anyone: > > > > with juno you only delete after it is opened. What do you do then, > or is > > it only through outlook that a virus can be passed? > > > > Lisa King wanting to be prepared for a non hoax > > > > To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss > list, > visit: > > http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp > To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp