[FLPERMACULTURE] Viruses???

[Jon Bosak]

Hi Judy,

Your suspicion is correct -- winmail.dat is msft crud.  You can
read all about it here:

http://www.gpc.edu/~jbenson/resource/winmail.htm

I thought that the list had been set up to block all attachments,
but clearly I was wrong.  Maybe it's just set up to block specific
file types.

BTW, the message headers show that mutualaid is running the
messages through a virus checker.  Not complete protection, of
course, but it seems to have been working well enough.

Jon


Judy Eda wrote:
> Hi, Michael:
> 
> I've been on this listserv for quite a while -- not had any problems 
> before now.  However:
> 
> Your message came in a string with 3 others -- from Jon Bosak, Bethany 
> Schroeder, and Leslie Knight.
> Leslie Knight's message DID come with an attachment titled 
> "winmail.dat." Of course I threw the attachment away without opening it.
> 
> So: it appears this list did send an attachment. Hope mutualaid can beef 
> up their protection somehow?
> 
> -- Judy Eda (smug Mac user who avoids micro$oft)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Michael Burns 
> <michael at fingerlakespermaculture.org 
> <mailto:michael at fingerlakespermaculture.org>> wrote:
> 
>     This email list cannot send attachments, so I can not imagine how a
>     virus
>     could be sent via plain text email.
> 
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>     Michael Burns
>     http://www.cayuta.org
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