Date:         Fri, 17 Dec 1999 12:02:21 -0500
Reply-To:     "Carrington, Tom" <tcarrington@RELITECH.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         "Carrington, Tom" <tcarrington@RELITECH.COM>
Subject:      Millenium Viruses - The list admin's word.
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 will shut down Gerry a few minutes/hours before Y2K hits, just as a
precaution. If the world does not end, he will be back up and running a few
minutres later. I have already tested the hardware for Y2K, and it passes
all tests just fine. The software is Windows NT v4.0 / SP5 and according to
MS, it is compliant in that form.

Our list server "Gerry" is not scanning the inbound/outbound email mesages
for any viruses. If you need protection, go buy or download software and
install it on your machine. I have no intentions of installing scanning
software on Gerry at this time.

About the info below....The latest "bubble boy" virus is probably what you
are referring to. *TECHNICALLY*, that virus can only be spread by opening
the message. Waitwaitwaitwait...keep reading. Many of us use MS-Outlook as
our E-mail reader. If you use "Messages with Auto Preview", and a message
with "bubble boy" came in, it fires off. When you use the auto-preview, you
have actually opened the message before you even double-click on it!! Only
MS Outlook/Outlook Express/IE Mail and a few other MAPI compliant e-mail
readers are affected by bubble boy. Eudora, Netscape mailer, etc are all ok.

TomC
tcarrington@relitech.com
http://volksweb.relitech.com
85 Vanagon Crew Cab
82 Westy diesel=>gas conversion
65 Notchback


> Well, I'm no virus expert, but I have read that there are now viruses that
> get spread by email and you DO NOT have to open any attachment. I guess
> the
> guys that write these things just keep getting better / more effective at
> what they do.
>