Re: A Note on Viruses

["Love Shack" <Home@DanSources.com>]

This is interesting..
I just received a virus from someome posing as TSK..
It was a bad on that I Kill Filed....

Someone has our number and trying to intimidate us.

Dan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Evanhoe" <evanhoe@arbuckleonline.com>
To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 3:46 PM
Subject: Re: A Note on Viruses


> Lynn,
> 
> Thanks for the heads up.
> 
> Ed
> 
> At 02:29 PM 12/4/2002 -0600, you wrote:
> >Symantec's monthly newsletter has warned about a new wrinkle in
> >address-book swiping. When one downloads software from the
> >Internet, one usually finds it necessary to agree to a set of
> >terms of agreement before being able to install the new program.
> >Symantec notes that some of these terms of agreement now include
> >your giving permission for a piggy-back program to take a copy
> >of your address book.
> >
> >I suppose that so few people ever pay the authors of shareware
> >that some of them feel that it is a fair trade to allow the user
> >the use of the software in exchange for a saleable list of e-mail
> >addresses, and, in some cases, the permission clause has probably
> >been inserted into the terms of agreement without the owner's
> >knowledge or permission.
> >
> >This makes little difference, however. Some of the major
> >anti-virus companies are now working on ways of detecting these
> >snakes in the fine print but, until they succeed in including
> >such detection in their programs, you would be well advised to
> >look over the terms of agreement closely before signing off on
> >them.
> >
> >Lynn
> 
> Ed Evanhoe, PO Box 916, Antlers, OK, 74523-0916
> Author: DARKMOON: Eighth Army Special Operations in the Korean War
> Co-author: NORTH KOREAN ORDER OF BATTLE 1950-1953 (Dec, 2002)
> Life Member: Special Forces & Special Operations Associations
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>