[or-roots] Off topic but VERY important

[Cecil Houk]

I don't know why there are so many people out there who are trying to destroy the internet, but they are there.

My ISP is Cox Cable San Diego.  As of April 1, 2004 they are filtering all e-mail in and out of @cox.net subscribers in this area for virus attachments.  When an incoming e-mail contains a virus attachment it is killed, and a form message is sent to the addressee stating the sender and the virus name.  I receive several of these warnings every day.  Some of them are warnings that I am sending a virus attachment to me!!!!

I am running McAfee's "Virus Scan" on this computer (from day one), and about 1 hour ago I got a warning that a Trojan had been received from a web page I accessed (a web page about Tom Cruise and "Born On The Fourth Of July"); which I "cleaned/deleted" as fast as I could.

I don't know what, if any thing, that Trojan did, but I do know this:  As soon as I can, I will be using one computer for nothing but e-mail, and another for internet surfing that will NOT have my address book (or any e-mail software) on it!

I don't know how the creep people do it, but a couple of years ago a porno link was posted to or-roots that seemed to have come from me.  Most of the garbage I receive, trapped by McAfee's "Spam Killer", has bogus "from" IP's.

If you have received any e-mail that "seems to have come from me", with a virus attachment or spam... I didn't do it.  It came from someone who has me in their address book, and a "mass mail" worm/virus on their computer.

Now; back on topic.

Cecil


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