Re: [APML] Attn "newborn" on APML

[Philip Perkins <philip@astrocruise.com>]

>I don't get viruses (so far) from the incoming mails.  Norton's intercepts
>them and stops them from spreading from my computer to others.... thus the
>point of my rant.  If others would do the same, these nasties would not be
>recycled on to others via whatever maillist or email source the virus/worm
>is travelling on.  And if everyone would properly so protect themselves, we
>would be chatting about a different string right now.


Robert,

With apologies for prolonging an OT thread, I agree with you and I 
understand how frustrating this problem can be.  I was recently on a 
business trip for one week and had only a slow dial-up link - each time I 
downloaded mail it took nearly half an hour because each download contained 
a dozen of more virus infected e-mails, each e-mail had an attachment about 
300Kb in size.  There was a single computer (in Korea as it happens) that 
unfortunately had my address in its Outlook address book.  The user was 
obviously oblivious to the fact that his computer was pumping out virus 
infected e-mails all the time.  There was seemingly nothing to stop 
it.  This problem meant that sometimes I couldn't get access to business 
data that was very important to my trip - it wasn't just frustrating, it 
was damaging.

This was not a problem of my computer becoming infected - I have very 
strong virus protection and none of my computers has become infected in 
more than two years - it was a problem due to the sheer size and volume of 
the virus-laden crap that was actually preventing my legitimate use of the 
Internet.  How can this possibly be the resposibility of the recipient?  It 
is clearly the responsibility of the originator, and IMHO Postmasters and 
Webmasters should be far more vigilant and actually disconnect computers in 
their domain if all they are doing is continuously pumping out viruses onto 
the Internet.

--Philip


Philip Perkins - philip@astrocruise.com
Wiltshire UK & Luberon France
Astrocruise - http://www.astrocruise.com


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