[fpc-devel]Programs.

[Jonas Maebe]

On donderdag, april 18, 2002, at 06:00 , varvered wrote:

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To everyone on this list: please do *NOT* run virus scanners which send 
out a message when they detect a virus in a mail. Almost all viruses 
nowadays pick a random from-address from your address book, which means 
that the warning messages will end up in the wrong place. If your 
software also attaches the virus itself (in a supposedly harmless way 
according to MIMEDefang), the ball gets completely rolling: I received 
no less than 9 messages apart from this one on the list administrator 
account from virus scanners run by other people who are subscribed to 
this list that still saw the attachment as a threat.

Apart from this incident, I've already received several other warnings 
about viruses I supposedly sent out (which cannot be the case: I only 
work under Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris) and it's getting really 
annoying. So please: keep on scanning, delete infected mails, but don't 
send out replies unless you want to take the time to look at the headers 
of the email and figure out where the mail really came from.

Thanks,


Jonas