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 >>> >>> >> >>==================================================================== >>[Text is usually formatted in Courier 11 non-proportional spacing @] >>[65-characters per line; .DOCs by MS-WORD for MS-DOS, Version 5.0B.] >>Paul Andrew Mitchell, B.A., M.S., email address: pmitch@primenet.com >>ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776, Tucson, Arizona state [We win] >>We can decode all your byte streams, spaghetti code notwithstanding. >>Coming soon: "Manifesto for a Republic" by John E. Trumane ie JetMan >>==================================================================== >> >> > > > > 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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