From: E. Shaun Russell (e_shaun@extropy.org)
Date: Mon Mar 25 2002 - 19:26:15 MST
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...
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E. Shaun Russell Operations Officer, Extropy Institute
e_shaun@extropy.org http://www.extropy.org
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