atw: Re: OT: Viruses

Good rules, Michael.  I'm sure most of us do as you say, but I advocate
being a little more cautious than that.
 
o  Don't open attachments unless you know they're coming, and you know
the person sending them.  
 
o  Don't save jokes from anyone unless they're in ASCII in the body of
the mail.
 
> Forget about backing up the software.
I back up the original source, whether it is on CD or purchased over
the web.  And I only accept software from trusted sources.  I even
checked out Lavasoft before I downloaded Ad-Aware.
 
BTW, I take a stand in defence of university students.  Someone
recently called them "long-haired hippies, with their pernicious
doctrines of free love, pot smoking and Maoism" which suggested to me
that the writer believed universities to be breeding-grounds of computer
viruses.  I've only taught one semester of uni undergrads (S1 2004), but
they were fine young people.  They worked me hard (which was good) and I
worked them hard.  During the course they e-mailed me a lot of work for
checking or marking, and there wasn't even a whiff of a virus in any of
those mails.  Those folk are paying a lot for their education and they
aren't wasting the opportunity.  Maybe it was different in the old days.
 :-)
Allan
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You should scan any attached files for viruses.

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