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Gavin Scott <[log in to unmask]>
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Gavin Scott <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 4 May 2000 11:50:00 -0700
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Barry writes:
> This may now be veering a little off the original topic, but
> wouldn't it be possible for the LISTSERV to scan attachments
> for viruses before forwarding them on to thousands of
> subscribers?

Rather than virus check them, I'd rather see Listserv just nuke all of the
damn things.

> Not to mention the fact (oops, I guess I *am* mentioning it) that Macs are
> in general far more difficult to hack into, or otherwise compromise, than
> either unix or windows.

Excuse me, but it was the Mac's inherent feature of automatically running
programs on a disk simply by inserting that disk into the floppy drive that
got the whole Virus business really going in the first place.

G.

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