Dan wrote:
In article .com,
wrote:
Dan wrote:
In article
. com,
wrote:
I ahve only been on rec.ra this week and was scanning the posts
on
Monday ...
You're nuts. You can't "get a virus" from reading text
messages.
If you actually got a virus, you got it somewhere else, not from
reading
messages here.
Get a clue.
Dan
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I hadn't been anywhere else, and I got it again from the same post.
Still interested in useful clues.......73........
Here's a clue - text messages can *not* give you a "virus". *If*
the
message contains a binary attachment, and *if* you save it, and *if*
you
then execute it, then it can happen.
But not from just reading plain text messages.
Dan
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It did it again today on rec.radio.shwve. 400meg of memory used up in
an instant. I did the usual clean-up routines mentioned above and later
surfed the net, looked through ebay, paid some bills, read lots of
mail, sent some...the computer worked flawlessly. However, on returning
to rec.radio, this time I went through AOL wondering if their virus
protection (McAfee) would make any difference. I looked around the site
as per usual but this time nothing went wrong. Is it the AOL filters
that make a difference or has the perp gone to supper? Or is it
something else? All I know is what happened and these are the facts:
1. The thing (I am unsure what it is) uses up 400 mb of memory and
freezes the computer in an instant.
2. It only does it when I am reading rec.radio.shortwave. No other
sites are affected.
3. It gets by Norton, Sygate, Ad-Aware, and Spybot.
4. The above programs clean it up, ready for the next round.
5. No attachments or links are opened.
6. I have read rec.radio for years using Netscape and the same computer
without any problem.
Is it a program bug somewhere? Has anyone else been affected? Is it a
deep virus that emerges for some purpose? And why only rec.radio? Maybe
some mysteries are too deep for the human mind to fathom.
So, as a work-around, I can comfortably access the site through AOL and
move on to other things: I just thought that some of the group
hot-shots would recognize the virus (if it is a virus) but it's not a
big deal. The thing is that there is no point in saying that because of
this and that it could not happen. It DOES happen exactly the way I
described. Also, I realize that this is not a computer forum but thanks
to those who offered their ideas....73.......ken........end.....