You're quite right. It's a silly discussion and I hate groups when they
start acting like a junior high school clique, complaining about nothing
and looking for other people to jump on, publicly and privately, just
because they are bored.
BTW, my ISP is www.sonic.net and they have great mail filters. They
filter out numerous spams and viruses before they ever hit the user.
Then, Sonic has excellent facilities for the user to filter out
subjects, sender addresses, and many other things into a "Graymail" file
that can be examined only at need. I can recommend Sonic for other
reasons as well.
Then my mail system, Thunderbird, also has good filter capabilities.
With all three levels of filter in play, I have never had an email
virus and I never see most spams, junk, unwanted newsletters that won't
let me sign off, etc.
This subject now goes into my delete file at Sonic.
Fran
Lavolta Press
www.lavoltapress.com
On 9/21/2012 2:31 PM, hhalb94...@aol.com wrote:
Ladies! Can we please try and keep this civil. We are starting to get close
to what seems like personal attacks. I don't really want to have to drop this
list because of the squabbles of a few of its members. If I wanted to listen
to petty fighting I'd go back to running kids summer camps.
Maggie Koenig
Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry®
-----Original Message-----
From: Lavolta Press <f...@lavoltapress.com>
Sender: h-costume-boun...@indra.com
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:22:03
To: Historical Costume<h-cost...@indra.com>
Reply-To: Historical Costume <h-cost...@indra.com>
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Puts the burden where it belongs!
So don't buy anti-virus software or a firewall, don't use an ISP who
filters out malware before you download it, and don't mouse over links
to see what they really are.
Just don't click on any links. Or don't read any email at all. Not
being on the Internet is the best way to avoid all such risks, though
BTW that doesn't work 100% either if you exchange files with people by
any other means.
But an email intro will do zip, zilch, and nada to prevent malware.
Fran
On 9/21/2012 1:41 PM, Charlene Charette wrote:
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Lavolta Press <f...@lavoltapress.com> wrote:
Um, you are aware that there could be accompanying text and the link could
still contain a virus? All the junk my ISP's spamcatcher dumps into my
graymail has accompanying text.
This is a ridiculous discussion, as the only person it matters to whether
you click on a link, is you. Thankfully, this moribund list seems to be
moving on to some actual content.
Clicking on malware links doesn't affect only that one user. Some of
these links install malware on the clicker's machine and send the
links to everyone in their contacts list, including all the mailing
lists. Since these emails are from (or appear to be from) a trusted
friend, more people click them. This is how botnets are created.
Several lists I'm on are currently undergoing these attacks as more
and more members of the list are being infected.
--Charlene
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