Date:         Sun, 21 Jan 2001 10:45:36 -0500
Reply-To:     Sam Walters <slwalters@EARTHLINK.NET>
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From:         Sam Walters <slwalters@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject:      Re: snowhite, opening email, anti virus, etc.
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Volks,

Like Mike and others, I periodically have been getting additional copies
of the Snow White email.  But there have been times when some have been
posting about receiving it when I didn't.  Whatever the source of these
emails, it seems to be sporadic in sending out the mailings.  I guess
that they have set up their program to pull all of our individual
addresses and then send out their mail with virus attached.  Now I
have set my filters so that it is automatically deleted before going to
my inbox and I would not know if it had come unless I check the filter
log.

But we all can set our filters to exclude email that has "haha" or
"sexyfun" or both contained in the sender line and delete it
automatically.  That will protect us.  My list of filters that does
this to obnoxious and/or unwanted email is growing but this is the
easiest thing to do in order to eliminate several headaches.

I got one a few days ago that had an attachment explaining the horrors
of some new virus and deleted it immediately as I figured the virus
itself was in the attachment.  If it comes again, I'll save the name
and pass it on.  What I should have done, but it was late and I was
tired, etc.  Sorry.  As they used to say on Hill Street, "be careful
out there."  Rather than "when in doubt, don't open,"  it should be,
"unless you know what it is and who it is from, don't open it."

Of course, that regularly updated antivirus program, running resident,
is also essential.

Together, these leave more time for reading Vanagon email and less for
deleting and worrying.

Sam Walters