[pct-l] Recieved a virus on mine.

[Tortoise]

While it is possible that the list would forward a virus, generally the 
list software converts everything to ASCI 7-bit coding which strips out 
attachments and HTML code and any virus that makes it thru is disabled by 
the stripping and conversion.

More likely is that a virus used someone's address book to send itself and 
also picked the PCT-List address as its "from" address.

What I don't understand is the need to replace the harddrive to get rid of 
the virus rather than a complete erase of the harddrive then reformat and 
reload.

There may be viruses that somehow can survive the complete erasing of a 
harddrive, if so I'd like to read up on them. Just send a link to a good 
article if you know of such an article.

Tortoise

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On 06/11/10 07:42, jimmy martin wrote:
> Hey message 7.  Approx 3 wks ago.  I also recieved a virus from this site.
> Had to replace the hard drive.  Not saying anyone in paticular gave it to
> me.  I just know it came from here.  Im somewhat leary on even being in
> here.  Take Care.  Jimmy.
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