At 05:58 08/21/2003 Thursday, Stan Horwitz wrote:
 >
 >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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