[or-roots] Lewis and Clark events in the area

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I've been monitoring this particular thread and can't understand how anyone might get a virus from a .pdf attachment especially throught this listserver with all of it's virus cleaning ability. The fact that it was a 14Mb file (which is rather large for a .pdf file) might be a problem for those with 56k modems and old pre-pentium computers, etc... But in today's broadband world, that shouldn't take very long to download. So, I'm not quite understanding how this file might have taken down someones hard drive, etc.. Very difficult to get a virus through a listserver these days. Just be wary of files that end in .exe, .pif or .scr. These usually are the most popular types sent around the internet as virus attachments. I'm sure most of you realize this but I thought I'd post a reminder. NOW.. back to Oregon genealogy!!

Regards,
Jack Ciaccia
Boulder, CO

Researching the following names:
Nickell
Nichols
Grigsby
Poston
Milam
Milan
Stallsworth
Turnham
Standley
Rebensdorf
Researching the following counties:
Multnomah
Lane
Jackson
Klamath
Columbia




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I did not download any virus
I did download a very nice adobe acrobat pdf file
that was nicely done, if any one else got it, it is worth 
looking over.
   downloading an attachment and activating them are not the same thing
We should not be tying up the list commenting on this, the people tried to communicate and it was just too big for the most part .

Dan M
Genealogy Community
surnames and NA connections
www.wvi.com/~wb
----- Original Message ----- 
From: DAVIESW739 at aol.com 
To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us 
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: [or-roots] Lewis and Clark events in the area



Dan you are the guy with the virus not me an I got the same e-mail as a matter of fact it is setting on my machine right now but not with the attachment because I didn't download that.

Walt Davies
Cooper Hollow Farm
Monmouth, OR 97361
503 623-0460 
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