[Mb-hair] MORE IMPORTANT - from the List Mama

[richard haase]

why is a mac better michael?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Butler" <michael at michaelbutler.com>
To: "HAIR List" <mb-hair at islandlists.com>; "Civic"
<mb-civic at islandlists.com>
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 12:32 PM
Subject: [Mb-hair] MORE IMPORTANT - from the List Mama


> Thanks to List Mama and Cheese.
> I use Entourage for email and Firefox as my browser. I do have Explorer
and
> Safari but rarely use them anymore. I am preparing to go to Apple's email
in
> place of Microsoft's Entourage next week when I install the new Mac OS
> "Tiger" (my former nickname, now my son's).
> For the first time I am getting anti virus application.
> However I do open attachments from sources I do not know.
> Final Note: Get a Mac you will thank me. I started with Dos. I have been
> thanking my sister since leaving the 'evil empire' for a Mac.
> XO Michael
>
> > Hey Cheese (and anyone else interested...)
> >
> > Michael didn't open the virus - his email address is just like yours in
the
> > undeliverable emails you are getting back. Michael uses a Mac which is
> > blissfully immune to most viruses. Someone who uses a PC, and most
likely
> > Internet Explorer and Outlook Express, and who has our emails addresses
> > (Michael, you, lamama, bunim murray productions...), as well as both the
> > Hair and Civic list, in their address book opened the virus. It is hard
to
> > pinpoint the person who is infected. A good rule of thumb for those of
us
> > using PCs is to never open attachments from ANYONE if they are not the
usual
> > file extensions.For instance,  .jpg and .doc. and .exl and others that
we
> > deal with regularly are fine. Avoid anything with unual file extensions,
> > like .scr and .pif or anything else you are not used to seeing
regularly. If
> > it comes from someone you know, but has an odd extension email the
person it
> > came from and ask them if they sent it and what it is BEFORE OPENING IT.
Two
> > important things to remember: You must open the attachment in order to
> > become infected by the virus most of the time (although the virus makers
> > have come up with a few numbers that can be embedded in html in an
email,
> > but that is still rare, and not what is going around the list at this
> > point). Secondly,just because your name appears as the sender of an
infected
> > email it does not mean that you have the virus, rather that someone who
has
> > you in their email address book has (or had) the virus. The single most
> > important thing that you can do is invest in a good anti-virus program,
such
> > as Norton Anti-Virus or other similar programs, for your computer, and
use
> > it regularly to scan all incoming email and your entire computer
regularly.
> > And keep your virus definitions updated within the program.
> >
> > If the list of email address above sounds suspiciously like anyone's
address
> > book email me privately, at this address, and I can give you the
specific
> > addresses at those domaines and you can see if you need to scan your
> > computer.
> >
> > Hope that helps.
> > Nina
> >
> > P.S. - to those in digest format please excuse my leaving Cheeseburger's
> > entire email attached below, but as I am sending this to the Hair list
as
> > wel,l there are many who haven't seen the original post and need to read
it
> > to understand what I amtalking about.
> >
> > The Hair Archives
> > http://www.michaelbutler.com/hair/holding/Hair.html
> >
> >
> >> From: "Cheeseburger" <maxfury at granderiver.net>
> >> Reply-To: mb-civic at islandlists.com
> >> To: "mb-civic" <mb-civic at islandlists.com>
> >> Subject: [Mb-civic] IMPORTANT - from the List Mama
> >> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 00:52:41 -0500
> >>
> >> IMPORTANT - from the List Mama
> >>
> >>
> >> I'd like to put my 2 cents in on this one, maybe it will help someone,
or
> >> even help me.
> >>
> >> Ok, I was wondering what was going on, as I am now receiving emails to
> >> myself from my isp server saying "Mail Undeliverable", but it also says
it
> >> was sent originally to whomever by me at maxfury at granderiver.net, which
it
> >> wasn't.  This has been going on for about a week or so I think.
> >>
> >> So, let me know, heh, this is serious, if Michael opened up a virus
thing
> >> and it scanned his Address Book, then that's why I'm getting
"Undeliverable
> >> Mail Returned" not sent by me to who knows how many people, but saying
it
> >> was sent from my email address, so whoever was in his Address Book it
has
> >> snapped up our email addresses and is sending viruses to countless
people
> >> with viruses in them saying that we sent them, heh.
> >>
> >> Anyway, I was wondering what was going on.  Just for the record, I have
not
> >> received an email from anyone in a long time, I access the MB Civic
List
> >> from The Internet directly, and rarely if ever open anything from there
in
> >> my Internet Browser that says "attachment attached" or whatever.
> >>
> >> In fact, I really wish people would NOT send attachments of any kind (I
> >> don't know if that's possible or not) and rather than an
***Attachment***
> >> (which a rather stout proportion of posts on the MB Civic Lists contain
> >> *just* them rather than even just a body in the post) put *at least* a
> >> website address instead where the information, jpeg or whatever can be
> >> directly accessed.  But then again I'm just wishing.
> >>
> >> Other than that, that's my take on it.  If anyone needs copies of the
> >> emails
> >> of "Undeliverable Mail" that was/was not sent by me but returned to me
> >> because of "Fatal Errors", I will gladly forward them on if they will
be of
> >> any use.
> >>
> >> Let me know if it all gets fixed, what's going on, or if there will be
> >> emails using my email address to send out viruses to people around the
> >> world
> >> until the end of time or something.
> >>
> >> All in all, I have a feeling this is not going to help me sell mesquite
> >> bowls on the Internet, lol.
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Cheeseburger
> >
> >
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