>I've received about three copies of that new virus (I forget >the name) Badtrans.B >in the last 24 hours. No impact on me (Linux mail client) but >one of our business guys got bit. Anyone else getting hammered? It's basically a "home-user" scenario right now. Corporates are much better at keeping up to date (and if they used us, any DAT within the last month would have stopped it). And with the virus coming out over Thanksgiving holidays, any other corporate entity would have gotten in the office and updated their data files. But in the home arena, people update much less frequently (and if they used us, they would have needed a particular setting of scanning compressed files, which is not the default) or don't even have AV at all, and were mostly home when the virus came out and didn't have the communications medium as available at the office to know that there was a virus rampant, and thus the home arena got much more infected. So, the more "hobby" mailing lists you belong to, the more likely you'll be seeing these messages with viruses, as responses to messages you may have posted to those hobby mailing lists. I myself got one. Jimmy
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