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Message-ID: <26B81041A305404D81E894D53B39EC0301C650@exchange.SANE.COM>
From: mike at sane.com (Mike Smith)
Subject: viruses being sent to this list

>>
>>> This is a small sample of what I have found in the archives:
>>> message.pif - 5 copies
>>> your_details.pif - 2 copies
>>> attachment.htm.pif - 1 copies
>>> file.pif - 1 copies
>>> test.pif - 1 copies
>>> readme.scr - 1 copies
>>
>> Yeah, that's pretty close to my recollection.  I thought it ironic
that
>> this list -- a security list -- is populated by some infected idiots,
>> but there you go.
>>
>Why leap to that conclusion?  There are two more plausible
possibilities. 
>1) Viruses are sending mail to the list address.
>2) Malicious individuals are sending viruses to the list.
>
>Why is it that people on this list, *in general*, tend to always assume
the 
>worst of others in every situation?
>
>Paul Schmehl (pauls@...allas.edu)

	Doesn't that depend on if you think stupid people are worse than
malicious people?


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