Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 14:05:05 -0800 From: "Southwell" <vizion@ptialaska.net> To: "David Nixon" <david.nixon@mantech.com>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Attachments request -OOOOOPS Message-ID: <001a01bf9f4b$03931e40$2ce346c6@demon.co.uk> References: <s8eb6f55.084@CORP-GW.mantech.com>
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David Nixon said: > That being said (typed), why are you not using an automated e-mail virus scanner? David S Comments: I am - but having, I am sad to say, in my working life long experience (now just over 40 years) in IT learnt that the crazy guys that like to write/distribute virus`s are currently real keen to find ways of getting round virus protection systems - including McAfee --the lastest version of which which I run on my machine. The guys that do this are real genius`s at what they do and someone somewhere will no doubt find a way.. if we get complacent then we will suffer the consequencies.. Having been caught out once myself - true about five years ago, with a virus attached to an email- which was not detected by a virus detector - I am left believing that a gram of prevention is worth a ton of cure.. Secondly why use an attachment when it is just as easy to paste text directly into your email? .. I mean attachment are fine for subsidiary documents but surely unnecessary for the main message body? Thirdly why discourtesy force people to have to open attachments when the standard method (and always has been since uucp days) has been to send emails in the clear? Anyway that is my view on the matter but I do not want the discussion to be blown up out of all proportion..it is not that significant - I made a request - if the one or two odd balls that post exclusively using attachments want to carry on doing so - it is their choice - likewise it is my choice to bin emails that comprise only attachments.. Basically noone should rely on virus protection programs - by definition they can only deal with known viruses and or known virus techniques.. david S. .> >>> "Southwell" <vizion@ptialaska.net> 04/04 1:14 AM >>> > Well guys I am so soooooooooooory if you had not told me I would never have > known - > > I am hanging my head here -- I am not used to using Microsoft stuff and it > appears that HTML was set by default on this machine -- the sooner I can get > my new machine up with Freebsd 4.00 the better I will like it!! > > Please let me know if the beastly HTML and Jif stuff (aparrently for some > kind of background to the mail) has dissappeared. > > However I would still stand by my request and you guys have made more point > for me again > > Attachments etc are a pain in the **** > > Thanks > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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