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> Nope, not if someone has the virus and it sends to you from their 
> computer and email addy.
> Getting the digest is the safest way to get group email, Yahoo does 
> delete anything
> dangerous that way.  But, if you're getting email from someone you 
> don't know, even if you
> know them to be a group member, it's best to just ignore and delete 
> it, unless you're on a
> Mac.  :)


The virus doesn't come from the list. this is what happens: someone 
posts to the list, someone who's also subscribed, but who's computer is 
infected, receives the mail. His computer is infected and sees your name 
in the "from" field. The virus automatically sends a mail to you and the 
list, but since it's filtered out on the list, you only notice the 
private mail. I think this is what's happening right now.

I've removed all accounts that caused problems and i've mailed them with 
instructions on how to remove the virus.

As for "Mac" to protect yourself against viruses. I work on PC and never 
had a virus either. It just depends on the way you work with the 
internet imo. There are less viruses on Mac indeed. Anyway, after 
mailing those people with viruses privately, I got a reply from them 
with the virus attached. I selected the mail and it activated itself. 
Since I'm using Mozilla (= some Netscape-alike program), it doesn't 
"execute" the program automatically. Instead, it asks where it can save 
the file. Outlook users might have more problems.

Here's a free virus-scanner which is good imo: http://www.free-av.de/

Bye,
Joeri

-- 
Belway Productions

--- In logic-ot@y..., Joeri Vankeirsbilck <belway@p...> wrote:
> Since I'm using Mozilla (= some Netscape-alike program), it doesn't 
> "execute" the program automatically. Instead, it asks where it can 
save 
> the file. Outlook users might have more problems.

That's the whole point: people using Outlook or OE with all these M$ 
utilities for you, some of which you can not deactivate. If you use a 
Java based email client, like Mozilla or Opera, you don't have all 
this hassle; you can prevent most of the viruses getting on your 
system. It's these Visual Basic apps and VBScripts that cause all the 
damage. Oh well, use a firewall and some scanners to prevent it while 
you are using these M$ apps.
Yoonchi.

>Outlook users might have more problems.
> 

Outlook XP wont let you open a .exe attachment[though this can be 
disabled]I guess thats why the badtrans virus maker didn't use a .exe

Maak

--- In logic-ot@y..., "maakbow" <maakbow@h...> wrote:
> >Outlook users might have more problems.
> > 
> 
> Outlook XP wont let you open a .exe attachment[though this can be 
> disabled]I guess thats why the badtrans virus maker didn't use a .exe
> 

Oh, about M$ security, you should read this: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-058.asp

Patch IE asap, if you are using it. It's like cheese, =).
Happy Opera user,
Yoonchi.