--WebTV-Mail-9899-61 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Hi Rikki and everyone-honestly, I don't know how all of that works, I am on webtv! I havn't been getting snow white AS MUCH-she still pops in from time to time, though. I guess more people have been using their anti-virus stuff (like my technical computer terms?!) For the longest time, however-whenever I got a message from this list, I would also get Snow White!-so I made the assumption. Rose --WebTV-Mail-9899-61 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Received: from smtpin-102-1.bryant.webtv.net (209.240.198.98) by storefull-173.iap.bryant.webtv.net with WTV-SMTP; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 06:06:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by smtpin-102-1.bryant.webtv.net (WebTV_Postfix+sws) id 87EE916A; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 06:06:56 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from lists2.rootsweb.com (lists2.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.32]) by smtpin-102-1.bryant.webtv.net (WebTV_Postfix+sws) with ESMTP id F23AB128; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 06:06:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from [email protected]) by lists2.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id f37D10g15969; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 06:01:00 -0700 Resent-Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 06:01:00 -0700 X-Original-Sender: [email protected] Sat Apr 7 06:00:59 2001 From: "Rikki Martin" <[email protected]> Old-To: [email protected] Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 09:01:00 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Snow White Message-ID: <[email protected]> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <[email protected]> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Resent-Message-ID: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/54 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected] > Funny-it pops up in the Brooklyn list quite often, but the list > moderator (or whatever you call it) INSISTS that virus' cannot come > through rootsweb! LOL! Rose and others, The reason the list admins INSIST that the virus can not be spread through the rootsweb server is because it can't. Plain and simple. Rootsweb is a UNIX platform and the snow white virus is a Windows virus. Have you ever seen those commercials on tv where that guy that speaks about "this PLATFORM and that PLATFORM and how everyone if your business isn't on the same PLATFORM as your customers then your business is going to suffer". Then goes on to tell you about this new PLATFORM and how it will speak to many others? Well, that's kind of like what is going on with rootsweb and the snow white virus. Rootsweb *can't read* window's based viruses so it *can't* transmit it because it doesn't allow it through. Plus...the snow white virus isn't in the email itself, it's in an attachment. And you can't send an attachment through rootsweb. Rootsweb catches them and filters them out. Whoever is getting the virus it is only because it is following the same path as it spreads itself around. The only way it can spread is through unprotected computers and people who, for whatever reason, open the attachment. It only takes a spark to ignite a forest. Hope this helps. Rikki another listmom but not for this list. Genealogists never die they just lose their census. ============================== Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2 --WebTV-Mail-9899-61--