Time: Tue Nov 05 20:06:25 1996
To: John Ray <bizen@edge.net>
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: exe files
Cc: 
Bcc: Dean

John,

Download the McAfee shareware 
from the Internet.  I believe
it will expire in 30 days, but
it will be a good test for you,
and give you an excellent shield,
until you can buy your own 
registered copy.  By the way, 
I am really big on buying registered
copies of commercial software.
Put yourself in their shoes;
you need and deserve to be paid
for your time.  "A man is worthy
of his hire."  McAfee is one of
the best, if not THE best.
No need to burn flesh;  the 
government is doing enough of that
to last a century.  Good luck.

/s/ Paul Mitchell

At 07:14 PM 11/5/96 -0600, you wrote:
>
>>John,
>>
>>What was the occasion for this message?
>>I have over 25 years of experience as
>>an advanced systems development consultant.
>>I keep a virus checker in RAM at all times,
>>as a TSR, and I frequently check the entire
>>disk for viruses.  The .EXE files which I
>>export do not have viruses, I can assure
>>you of that.  Did you experience some damage
>>due to an .EXE file which you received from
>>me, or are you just being cautious and
>>preventative here?  Please advise.
> Just cautious and preventative. I have no experience with programming
>computers, and much more than I'd like with paying for computers. I don't
>even know what a TSR is, and I have no idea how to check my own computer for
>viruses. For this reason, I am cautious; perhaps too much so. But I don't
>think so- knowledgeable people have told me that if I don't "download"
>certain types of programs I will be invulnerable to viruses. As someone who
>doesn't know, I'd bet hackers could get through that pretty quickly, though,
>and my only defense against such people is not a defense at all, but a trust
>that people of that level of intelligence would not do such a thing, simply
>as a matter of principle. 
> So, picture yourself in the appliance section at Sears, and you think you
>know that some of those burners may be hot. You wouldn't use the "smell of
>burning flesh" test to see if you might be right. Again, I certainly do not
>intend to offend, but I'm like a blind man in that same appliance section.
>Don't wanna hafta say yowch!                        -John Ray
>>/s/ Paul Mitchell
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised when its
>>>opponents blame it for the drought.     -D. W. Morrow
>>>
>>>
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>>We can decode all your byte streams, spaghetti code notwithstanding.
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>
>
>
> Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised when its
>opponents blame it for the drought.     -D. W. Morrow
>
>
      


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