Re: Important notice to all posters

From: David H. Lipman (DLipman~nospam~_at_Verizon.Net)
Date: 10/23/03 

Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 22:25:16 -0400

Eddie:

Please read the information in the following URL entitled "What's the Plural of `Virus'?":
http://www.perl.com/language/misc/virus.html

Dave

"eddie charles" <eddie@linux.loc> wrote in message
news:pan.2003.10.23.02.02.30.267385@linux.loc...
| Do *not* use your real email address in any microsoft newsgroup or it will
| be harvested by the virii and you will get lots of emails with the latest
| virus. These latest virii are programmed to look at public newsgroups
| listed in your registry. That includes this newsgroup.
| Always use a non-existent email address or a throw-away address from
| sneakemail or some other similar service when posting in newsgroups,
| especially public ones.
|
| Just looking at http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/vinfodb.html
| shows that there are about 50 viruses in the wild since October 1, with 2
| discovered only in the last two days. Obviously, protection is not available for
| viruses until after they are discovered and reported, so the AV for the 2
| most-recent virii was only available yesterday, the 21st.
|
| Symantec and other AV companies offer free online security and AV scans
| There are about 500,000 "zombies" in the wild. These are compromised
| microsoft computers that are under control of someone else. They are used
| for sending spam and propagating more viruses. I look at it as computer
| rape. Your computer is being forcibly used and abused by someone you do
| not know who is probably not even in the US.
| While you think you are simply browsing or playing a game, somebody is
| using your computer to do what ever they want.

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