Jim - >Why reply to virus messages? Safer, if they are from known people, to >send a separate message, not a reply. ----- To let the person know about the problem. Because "edit, cut, paste" doesn't put the > quote symbol in. Given the overlap in participants between the lists I'm on, I can't tell which list it "came from", so there's little point in warning the lists. >If they are from strangers, >safer >to delete and ignore. ----- Of course, but that's rare. Those are almost always spam. Except one yesterday(?) from a name I didn't recognize, from a Juno address, which I sent (not the whole thing - headers down to attached filename) to Brian to see if the person was a lurker on the list. >How do you know a message contains a virus, without knowing which >virus >it is? ------ I'm using 1.49. The old anti-virus program on this system doesn't check email. Given my archaic set-up, I don't worry about viruses any more - "they" are after newer systems. So I really don't care which virus it is. I just ass-u-me that it's the latest one. Identifying one? Depending on the virus, a "silly" private message from a recognized name with all kinds of heiroglyphics as an attachment which is identified as an .exe, .gif, or .jpg file. One recent one, if I hit reply, started the email address with an underline character. Immediate identification as a virus/worm/Trojan/what have you. While I don't know everyone's email address offhand (and some people have more than one, of course), the email address sometimes "looks wrong", like the one I reported that was half a list address. Individuals don't have that address - I'd be .very. suspicious if I saw your name with a freelists.org address which is about what happened the other day. ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. To unsubscribe, send a message to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe juno_accmail" in the body or subject. OR visit //freelists.org ~*~