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Posted By: Lance In Response To: Lance, did you try mail call? (Kim Thomas)
Date: Monday, 18 August 2003, at 3:36 p.m.
my anti-virus checks my incoming (and outgoing) mail. Most mail from people I don't know automatically gets deleted. And many viruses come from friends, so you don't check their headers. Plus people like my parents have no clue what to look for or even know what headers are.
That's how my parents got their virus. From a relative that they send emails back and forth constantly. Anything they send is opened and not questioned. My parents just don't learn. They bought a computer in 1996 and it did not come with anit-virus software. I kept pestering them to get the software. They did not. Then they got a virus and had to pay to have it removed. Plus they lost some of the stuff they did not want to lose.
So they finally bought an anti-virus program. But they have never updated it. That was 2 years ago. Now they wonder why they got a virus from a relative. Now I am going to install AVG ont their computer and insist that they use the automatic update instead of cancelling it when it comes on. Hopefully they have learned their lesson!
I use the FREE Mailwasher program that allows me to view email without downloading it off the server. I can blacklist, delete, and bounce emails that I don't want. It's another great free tool! I think it's at www.mailwasher.net
Lance
> Have you tried mail call? mail call let you
> look at the headers before releasing it onto
> your inbox and it does not take any time to
> perform any test .. since you can just take
> one look and know immediately that it's a
> virus.> Usually the virus perpetrator uses bogus and
> emotional subject line to get people to open
> the infected email, with mail call it stands
> out like a sore thumb. YOu can see in the
> header, their virus code normally vb script
> type file, with an emotional subject line
> and garbage in the body.> I must say the subject lines get very
> creative these days ....
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