Html formatted emails can carry v*ruses. That is why it is stripped on this email list. All attachments and all html, so NONE get through to the list-members. Enough said on this subject. Read the posting guidelines and it explains it. Doug Paul wrote: > > I have a book that says that viruses can not be transmitted through e-mails > that do not have attachments,and then only if the attachment is opened. Is > this incorrect? I see these notices quite often and it seems that I recall > the techassist adm. has more than once noted that viruses can not be > transmitted through the list. Am I off base here? Or were you alerting > members that might get e-mail direct rather than through the list? Paul > alltv <alltv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hellod group > and tech assist adm. > this is a virus report. and the source is tech@xxxxxxxxxxx > please block in coming messages from this person > thanks > > Hello thec@xxxxxxxxxxx > whoever you are, > your computer has virus. Infected with w32.Bugbear.B@m > and it is not repairable by northon antivirus. > So please do not send email to tech assist group or anybody else until you > fix your problem > > Ken Dinckan > > ********************************************************************* > e-mail to: alltv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > ALL TV & APPLIANCE SERVICE > 2747 Roosevelt Street suite B > Carlsbad CA, 92008 > Phone (760)-4341131 / Fax: (760)-4348856 > ********************************************************************* > > ***************************************************************************** > Classifieds! Buy or Sell! > http://sell.tech-assist.org > The Tech Address Book: > http://www.tech-assist.org/secure/tip/contact.htm > Add a Repair Tip Here, or Change/Remove your Email Address: > http://www.tech-assist.org/secure/tip/main.htm > Lost Password: > http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Lost your Login Info?". > Email Archives: > //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/ > > Paul ,B > Central TV&Video > > Grover Beach Ca. > > ***************************************************************************** > Classifieds! Buy or Sell! > http://sell.tech-assist.org > The Tech Address Book: > http://www.tech-assist.org/secure/tip/contact.htm > Add a Repair Tip Here, or Change/Remove your Email Address: > http://www.tech-assist.org/secure/tip/main.htm > Lost Password: > http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Lost your Login Info?". > Email Archives: > //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/ -- Doug Keller "Learn from the mistakes of others, Wis-Kel Electronics because you won't live long enough 101 Freeland Ave. to make them all yourself" Terra Alta, WV USA 26764 dek@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.tech-assist.org ***************************************************************************** Classifieds! Buy or Sell! http://sell.tech-assist.org The Tech Address Book: http://www.tech-assist.org/secure/tip/contact.htm Add a Repair Tip Here, or Change/Remove your Email Address: http://www.tech-assist.org/secure/tip/main.htm Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Lost your Login Info?". Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/