source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 13:53:09 -0700 Subject: Re: NTR: Viruses Via E-mail From: DMB5561719@aol.com In a message dated 97-04-23 13:39:45 EDT, you write: > Well, that assumes that you don't have your E-mail program set to > blindly execute every attachment it receives WITH that E-mail. I had never > even heard of any E-mail programs that offer such a ludicrously dangerous > option, but apparently at least one does. Definitely turn that option off > if your program has it. AOL (of course!) has that option. Leave it off. D a v i d B e a r d s l e y .. dmb5561719@aol.com * .. * ... .* .... *...... . ..* I M M P & B i i n k! m u s i c . .. * .. .. * .. J u x t a p o s i t i o n Ezine * . .. * . .*.. . .. . . .*. . . . . .. .. http://www.virtulink.com/immp/lookhere.htm . .. .*.. . .. . ..*. . .. . *. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 22:56 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA29176; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 22:56:23 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA29172 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id NAA13209; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 13:54:37 -0700 Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 13:54:37 -0700 Message-Id: <970423163453_609457930@emout16.mail.aol.com> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu