Klarinet Archive - Posting 000040.txt from 2004/08

From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] virus mail
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 19:58:31 -0400

On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Gary Truesdail wrote:

> Everyone should run their virus checker. If you have a problem call your
> ISP and explain the problem. They may find out your address has had
> suspicious activity lately and you don't know it.

Very seldom is it that someone notices that they have a virus,
especially with today's cable & dsl systems. A "normal" pc can spew out 10
emails a second with the infected coter barely slowing down (since it
doesn't handle the "bounce" emails - the stolen addresses' ISP has to
handle the bounces. The email server here is averaging about 5 emails/sec,
almost all of which are spam or worse, and I only handle about 5000 valid
email addresses and 60 domains ...

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