Well, I use FireFox (latest thing from Mozilla) on Linux and Yahoo's
web mail system, so the problem is not YOU or ME, it is all the OTHER
FOLKS who get themselves infected and who then serve as unwitting
spam/virus launchers. We can't stop them, but we at least have the
comfort of pretty good spam filters.
73 - Martin
--- Jim <jlboockh@earthlink.net> wrote:
> I use Mozilla for email and as a web browser. I have never been
> infected
> by an email virus.
>
> Jim N4AL
>
> Martin AA6E wrote:
> > No, but this is very common for any and all email
> > lists. Bad software (virus) gets into somebody's
> > computer somewhere on the Internet and it emails more
> > copies of itself using "from" and "to" addresses from
> > the user's address book. So, if it happens to be
> > someone who has tentec.com in their address book, ...
> > (Insert negative comment about Outlook and Outlook
> > Express.)
> >
> > There's nothing you can do to stop this kind of thing,
> >
> > ....snip
> >
> >>I keep getting email from what appears to be TenTec
> >>but of course it is
> >>not and there is an attachment which of course I
> >>will not open. Has
> >>anyone else been seeing these?
> >>
> >>Steve N4LQ
> >>
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