Subject: spam/virus

From: "Angel G. Polanco Rodriguez" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 09:50:03 -0600 (CST)

Hi,

Some body know pine option about How I can to stop spam or mails with
infected attachments?

Thanks in advance by the help.
Greetings

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From: Gopi Sundaram <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 11:08:04 -0500 (EST)

On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Angel G. Polanco Rodriguez wrote:

> Some body know pine option about How I can to stop spam

If you can figure out how to identify it, then you can set up a filter
rule.

> or mails with infected attachments?

You will be infected by an attachment only if you open it. Always scan
attachments before opening them.

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From: Kenneth Crudup <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 09:55:42 -0800 (PST)

On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Gopi Sundaram wrote:

> You will be infected by an attachment only if you open it.

... on inferior OS', that is. :-)

	-Kenny

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From: "Angel G. Polanco Rodriguez" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 12:04:50 -0600 (CST)

Yes !

I dont use windows... only linux and dont worry :)

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From: Mats Dufberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 22:19:45 +0100 (CET)

> I dont use windows... only linux and dont worry :)

Nobody must beleive that unix is protected against mail virus (or rather,
trojan horse in mail). A foreign executable should never be executed under
no OS. Even a shell script could be evil.

Mats

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From: Kenneth Crudup <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 13:34:22 -0800 (PST)

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Mats Dufberg wrote:

> trojan horse in mail).

True but:

> A foreign executable should never be executed under no OS.

... I run an OS that uses apps with the sanity to *not* do this by default
(more exactly, at *all*).

	-Kenny "What the hell was Bill *thinking*?" Crudup