Subj : GMail Accounts
To   : Mike Powell
From : Barry Martin
Date : Mon Dec 21 2020 07:06:00


Hi Mike!

 > Also reminds me of years ago when I called a different BBS - the SysOp
 > was telling us users to download and install the anti-viral software he
 > was using -- I thought about and then declined, figuring if a virus/
 > whatever gets past his system it's also going to get past mine if I have
 > the same AV utility, so I used something different.
 MP> Sounds like a good reason not to for sure.

I thought so.  One did get through both: Vienna.BUA.  It was a 'timed' 
virus for lack of a better term: only was active and at the time 
detectable during certain times of the day -- 6 p.m. comes to mind.  
Vaguely recall somehow we (the SysOp and I) contacted F-Prot with that 
information and they figured out how to detect when it was 'off'.

 
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