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From: Gordon J. Holtslander (holtsg@duke.usask.ca)
Date: 07/26/01-11:47:39 AM Z


Hi:

Sorry if I'm repeating myself...

This mailing list should be reasonably virus proof. A virus scanning
program (sophos) has been installed on the server that runs this mailing
list.

If a list participant's computer gets infected with an email distributed
virus and attempts to send a virus through the list the virus scanner
should catch it. The virus updates on this are done religiously.

The scanner replaces the contents virus laden attachment with a plain text
file explaining that the original file was a virus. People may get a
message that looks like the sircam (or any other email based virus), but
it should be harmless. If your not sure please delete it.

Everyone should have a good virus protection system on their computer.

I've personally recieved about 10 copies of sircam - all of them rendered
useless by the virus scanner.

Gord

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Gordon J. Holtslander Dept. of Biology
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http://duke.usask.ca/~holtsg University of Saskatchewan
Tel (306) 966-4433 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Fax (306) 966-4461 Canada S7N 5E2
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