Fellow Listers, I think the most important thing or highest priority is to make certain that you have Virus Protection software on your computer system. Until you do, you will always be at high risk. The next thing is to make sure you update online your virus protection on a regular basis to keep it current. In regard to attachments distributed through the List, I guess I missed something. I was under the impression that on most Lists, attachments on e-mails was prohibited and couldn't be sent to the List. If you did it was automatically stripped off. For help on the latest Virus that we had on this List called: "W32.Badtrans.13312@mm" check out this site: <http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/> Hope this helps someone. Regards, Jesse Lee "Jack" WOOD,III Powell, OH (Formerly from TX) jwood1@mindspring.com P.S. See e-mail below for more info. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [ROOTS-AND-OTHERS-L] the Kak worm/virus - from the listowner Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 09:48:09 -0500 From:"Stephens, Larry V" <stephenl@INDIANA.EDU> To: ROOTS-AND-OTHERS-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU Several people have reported their anti-virus filters have picked up the Kak worm/virus in list mail. Listserv has put filters in place and I've tried to limit the spread of viruses and worms by disallowing attachments. But, some of the smarter ones don't need to be "run" or opened, per se. We're doing everything we can on this end to prevent them, but people with nothing better to do keep trying to harm you. * Don't open attachments from anywhere unless you know who sent it and expect it (don't forget some of these programs use your address book to send out mail). Even then it's safer to save it to disk and let your virus program check it - and that's not 100% safe. * If you email program has a preview feature, disable it. If you can tell it to not run scripts, do so. * Keep your virus software up-to-date. * BACK UP, BACK UP, BACK UP! If you are not backing up your data files on a regular basis then you're being foolish - it's that simple. If it's not a virus it may be lightning, or theft, or fire, or plain old mechanical failure. I know budgets are tight, but buying a computer without having the ability to back up the data is like buying a car with no brakes: you can use it but it's not smart to do so. Zip disks, ORB drives, CD burners, tape units all make good backup devices. * Write down all the programs you use. You don't need to back those up because they need to be installed from scratch, anyway. But, you need to have an idea what you're using and be able to find the original CDs or disks. (You do need to backup any patches you download, though.) * Back up your data! If you think you don't have time to back it up, ask if you have time to recreate it. Have a good day. Larry Stephens Office of Risk Management Indiana University --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Subject: [WOODS-L] Re: Virus's - Solution? > Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 16:17:37 -0800 > From: "Arrington, Charlotte" <mecha@matnet.com> > To: WOODS-L@rootsweb.com > > Hi Lists, > > My friend suggested that if we are sending an attachment we > mention it right "up front." Would this solve the problem since > a "virus attachment" is listed at the end? Charlotte > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "pat" <pat@skyride.net> > To: "Arrington, Charlotte" <mecha@matnet.com> > Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 6:14 PM > Subject: Re: [WOODS-L] Virus's > > > Thanks for the heads-up, guess we can all snivel together. > > Smiles, > > Pat >