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Pastimes : VIRUS ALERT -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: miraje who wrote (9)	6/13/1998 6:21:00 PM
From: zonkie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 47

I really don't know a lot about it, i did read a few of the inks from the url i sent Daniel and to the best if my knowledge you can't catch a virus just bu surfing the net. If you receive a file by e-mail or icq and it has an extension of exe, it could be possible to contain a virus. I've probably opened several hundred of them and I don't think I've gotten any. I have a virus scan program that is supposed to tell me when it detects a virus in something and it has never told me it found one. The most common way of getting a virus is from a floppy disk that someone gives you......Let me repeat though, I am far, far from an expert in virus's.

To: miraje who wrote (9)	6/13/1998 9:30:00 PM
From: Crocodile	Respond to of 47

James, I don't know how common it is to pick up something off the net. I think you might get into some problems downloading programs from websites. That might actually be more from conflicts between the programs and your system. I think I created problems in my hard drive downloading a freeware program for making transparent animated .gifs. I don't really think there was anything "malicious" about the program, but my Mac started acting crazy afterwards and my icons all lost their colours, etc... Talk about Mac Attack indigestion!! Anyhow, the problem seemed to go away after trashed the offending program. I think the biggest problem with viruses may be keeping up with new ones. I think you can follow that stuff on websites like Wired. BTW, I pick up a good British magazine called .net which you can buy in a "CD edition" (comes with a CD most months). I've gotten some great demo software on the CDs. Always lots of stuff for people who like to build websites or fool around with graphics and building animated .gifs and .pngs, etc... They often have recent anti-virus programs. Interesting magazine in any case. Sort of off-the-wall and a bit pricey ($14.95 in Canada with the CD), but there's usually so much on the CDs that it seems worth it. BTW, it is fairly equally split between Mac and PC stuff. Croc