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At 05:58 08/21/2003 Thursday, Stan Horwitz wrote:
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>Your best bet is to run your anti-virus program every day and make sure it
>is set to automatically retrieve the latest DAT file daily, or even
>better, get rid of that monstrosity that runs Windows and buy a Mac with
>OS X and the odds of you having a virus again or having your computer
>hacked drop considerably.
Though good advice, as far as his buying a Mac, it won't help everyone
else who is infected and causing either his list or his email address
from being spoofed.
>As for Listserv, you could use the "confirm" option on the "Send" keyword
>to prevent unauthorized emails from being distributed via your list, but
>that might change the tenor of your list. See the L-Soft documentation for
>information on the "Send" keyword and its options.
We've documented proof-positive methods of bullet-proof distributions of
low-volume official announcements via lists that resist virus
distributions (even by the moderator). Hi-vol distributions would
require a corresponding time commitment to do the the OKs or clicks on
confirming URLs.
/Pete
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