On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:08:33 EDT, Francoise Becker said: > because...? Social engineering is not an effective way to spread > viruses? It has worked pretty well in the past -- has the general > Internet population become less gullible since I last checked? No, because the two main categories of things likely to spread this way are: 1) Automated viruses, which haven't learned how to post themselves via the Listserv web interface (and probably never will - consider what it says about the network if *that* becomes an advantageous way to spread a worm). 2) Rogue users posting malware - which again is unlikely to be stopped by anti-virus scanners (though a *spam* filter can catch most of the phishing and similar). Absent any definitive evidence that this happens enough to worry about it, I have to conclude that "virus via the web interface" is a mostly theoretical issue, and I'm much better off investing resources dealing with *real* problems, like the number of users who will click on a URL just because it says that there's been unexpected activity on their account at the First National Bank of Dancing Hamsters..... So has anybody actually *seen* a virus pop through the web interface?