From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Tue Mar 26 2002 - 12:03:26 MST
> (E. Shaun Russell <e_shaun@extropy.org>):
> Robert Bradbury wrote:
>
> >Use *pine* or some other email program that simply cannot
> >spread viruses. I mean really -- reading text on the screen
> >isn't known to infect computers -- its all the value added
> >stuff that vendors think will make your life easier that
> >you need to avoid.
>
> It looks like I've effectively licked it. My Live Updates subscription to
> Norton Antivirus 2001 had somehow expired, so I had to renew and download
> their current virus definitions. I have heard of some horror stories with
> McAfee, so I wanted to avoid that if possible. I was beginning to think
> over the past year or so that good old Eudora 5.1 was pretty much immune to
> this sort of thing, but...obviously not!
>
> Anyhow, thanks much to Robert, Colin Hales and Dossy for their help. I'll
> check out "*pine*" at some point soon...
Eudora is a good product, and the default settings are safe.
I've never used the PC version of pine, but the Unix version
doesn't have some features I find useful, so I switched to Mutt.
Either of those would be good, but if you like Eudora, there's
no reason to switch. If you were using Outlook, there's reason
to switch.
You might have turned on some "HTML mail" option or something,
or else maybe you clicked on an attachment accidentally.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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