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Article #2636Re: Worm and Virus attack
From: Jim Thompson
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 21:25
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 21:25
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On 19 Sep 2003 12:37:04 -0700, Winfield Hill <whill@picovolt.com>
wrote:
>Jim Thompson wrote...
>>
>> Winfield wrote:
>>
>>> I got over 1000 at home this morning, over 450 of them
>>> arriving in a single 5 minute period at about 0640 EST.
>>> Strangely, I got almost none at my work email.
>>
>> Those of us running Eudora got NONE ;-)
>
> It has nothing to do with what email client you're
> running. As it happens I've been using The BAT at
> home (and Netscape at work).
>
> The BAT is a standards-based email program that
> won't do _any_ type of automatic execution, which is
> probably what you're thinking of. But this doesn't
> protect you from getting a flood of email if some
> computers out there should turn their firehoses on
> you! Watch out!
>
> Thanks,
> - Win
I suspect that here Cox Communications is stopping it all... I note
that outbound E-mail is posting *very* slowly.
...Jim Thompson
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