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08/30/2003 Archived Entry: "VIRUSES ARE RUNNING RAMPANT"

VIRUSES ARE RUNNING RAMPANT

I don't know about you, but I've been deluged with virus laden letters with attachments. Every time I download my mail, I get 6 or 8 infected letters in each batch. Multiply that by the number of times I download mail and you get the idea of the number.

And, there is the worry associated with downloading mail. One slip of a click with one of those pieces of mail and my computer is doomed. All of this, whether deserved or not, I'm laying squarely at the feet of 18 year old thoughtless, self-absorbed 'teekid' for unleashing a version of "Blaster" computer worm. Jeffrey Lee Parson created one of the worst outbreaks this year and I hope he pays a heavy price for it He could face up to 10 years in prison and be fined $250,000. Compared to the millions of dollars of damage he caused, that's a small price to pay for his brand of "fun".

Having vented that, there is a way to ward off potential disaster and I've resorted to that, even if it is inconvenient. I just download my mail on my server and get rid of the bad mail there. That way it never gets to my machine. The "good" mail I want to save, I download to my machine.

For you classic net subscribers, you can go to mail.classicnet.net, feed in your user name and password and deal with your mail worry free. Inconvenient, but worry free. This should clear up eventually, but right now everyone is having this problem. Other ISPs work the same way.