[pmmail-list] how can I avoid virus'es in the future?

[Günter Minnerup]

> He asked, I responded. AFAIK, the guy said he used Pmm as the
> mailer. Pmm *is* able to transmit virii. What text-based mailer are
> you referring to?

How can PMM transmit virii (whatever they are: the correct pedantic
plural is viri)? PMM send pure ASCII text, which cannot contain
executables.

> If I were you, I wouldn't trust a, say weekly scan of your
> harddrives, to find any virus that has been recieved during the
> week. When it comes to virii you don't want to take any chances. At
> least I don't...

Most virus scanners can do it on every boot-up. I agree that one
shouldn't take chances, but as ordinary email cannot transmit a virus
there are no chances involved!

Regards,
Günter 
                           
Günter Minnerup
Visiting Fellow
Centre for European Studies/School of History
University of New South Wales
Sydney NSW 2052
Tel. (+61 2) 9385 1363 (work)
Tel. (+61 2) 9398 3646 (home)
mailto:g.minnerup@unsw.edu.au


On Monday, May 5, 2003, 6:36:18 PM, Sorin Srbu wrote:

> On Mon, 5 May 2003 17:33:12 +1000, Günter Minnerup wrote:

>>> Set the Enable Mail Scan in NAV2k1. Should solve your problem. Be
>>> sure to set NAV to scan both incoming and outgoing. If you have
>>> business-contacts, you DO NOT want to to accidentally infect them
>>> with a virus. If nothing else you loose prestige and face, which is
>>> probably not a good indicator on your business... 8-)
>>
>>How exactly would text-based email transmit any viruses?

> He asked, I responded. AFAIK, the guy said he used Pmm as the
> mailer. Pmm *is* able to transmit virii. What text-based mailer are
> you referring to?

>>Should be enough to scan any executives you plan to send as
>>attachments. In fact, with regular scanning of your hard drives there
>>should be no need to scan outgoing email at all.

> If I were you, I wouldn't trust a, say weekly scan of your
> harddrives, to find any virus that has been recieved during the
> week. When it comes to virii you don't want to take any chances. At
> least I don't...

> HTH.


> BW,

> Sorin

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