Re: [SPAM] RE: [school-discuss] viruses and the list

[MacEwan <macewan@macewan.org>]

Too bad you can't switch them to Linux. Xandros would be a good distro
for them if a complete user interface change is scary to them.


On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 13:26, Keith Best wrote:
> Thanks Leon,  You of course are correct!
> I must admit to having sent those in a fit of rage.  I am an IT professional
> for several organizations.  And the fact that people STILL don't have
> up-to-date virus defs and programs on their personal machines fustrates me
> so.  I am able to insure that every server under my controll, and every
> desktop at my fingertips always is current/up to date on AV defs and MS
> "critical" patches.  I have to spend many hours a week, just to keep stuff
> like this from comming from MY users, and then to have a few who can't keep
> the simple things working.
> 
> I do value the list and enjoy reading the progress that is made in the name
> of M$-free higher education.
> 
> I appologize to all on the list.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leon Brooks [mailto:leon@brooks.fdns.net]
> Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 12:13 AM
> To: schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net
> Cc: Keith Best
> Subject: Re: [school-discuss] viruses and the list
> 
> 
> On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 11:47, Keith Best wrote:
> > Please remove me from this list.  I have recieved more viruses threw
> > this list than anywhere else in my computing journies.
> 
> If you have a look at the full headers (or View Source), an activity
> which, I must admit, MS-Outlook doesn't encourage, you'll see this
> header:
> 
> X-To-Get-Off-This-List:
>   mail majordomo@schoolforge.net, body unsubscribe schoolforge-discuss
> 
> If you examine the mail headers on the viruses, you'll probably discover
> two things:
> 
>  1. Every sender is using Outlook; and
> 
>  2. Some, possibly most of the viruses didn't come through the list,
>     they just look like they did.
> 
> What the second point means is that you're probably not getting the
> viruses through remaining subscribed to the list, you're probably
> getting them from other MS-Outlook users with the list in their address
> books, or in their Internet Explorer caches from having viewed the list
> archives.
> 
> The implication is that unsubscribing won't help you.
> 
> I'm sorry that I can't comment on the viruses. I was getting a steady
> diet of nearly half a thousand a day from various sources (peaking at
> 1000-1500 during major outbreaks such as MS-Blast) so I put the free
> ClamAV scanner on my mail server (via AMaViS) and rarely see one now.
> 
> I see that your Toshiba laptop is sending mail straight through your
> router and Bell South, but you're recieving mail via Yahoo. In order to
> use ClamAV yourself, you'll need to set your laptop up for dual-booting
> and get a Linux service like FetchMail to pull your mail from Yahoo to
> feed it through ClamAV to your email client.
> 
> Reading your mail and browsing the web is *much* safer under Linux
> anyway. I use and strongly recommend KMail on Mandrake Linux 10.0.
> 
> Cheers; Leon
> 
> 
>