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

Fri Apr 29 11:39:30 PDT 2005

Easier to use, I have had maybe 6 over the years none ever crashed. Nowadays
it can open any PC stuff. Many games are available. Terrific design. Super
Care available. Great sense of humor. The 'Bentley' of computers.
Michael

> 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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