Re: viruses
From: Charles J. Petrie (petrie@snrc.stanford.edu)
Thu, 3 May 2001 16:20:46 -0700 (PDT)
> There is no escaping viruses and worms if you use email.
Not true. I read email in emacs on solaris and escape them all. I
don't open attachments sent in proprietary Microsoft formats at all,
but rather ask the sender to "save as" a non-propreitary format such
as html or pdf, even if it's MS's version of those. This not only
saves me from viruses, but also has the feature that I never have to
pay Microsoft money just to read someone's email message. Now
if I could only start a movement instead of everyone giving up..
That said, http://wheel.compose.cs.cmu.edu:8001/cgi-bin/browse/objweb
works great for translating file formats. And of course if you convert
a doc file to html, any macro viruses are killed. Thanks for that tip
I got on this list.
Regards,
Charles
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