Virus in this file?

[James Gray]

On 24/07/2008, at 6:48 PM, Herman wrote:

> I got this message. It reads:

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> Word document attachment (Euro Afro Asian Sweepstake Lottery  
> Award.doc)
> ---
> I would need OO to read it.
> Is OO resistant against a possible embedded virus?

Geez.  If you THINK it might have a virus and you are uncertain of  
it's safety when opened in OO, then *WHY* did you send it to the  
entire users list?!?  That's like going to the school yard with a  
round metal object that LOOKS like a grenade, then tossing it to the  
kids and asking them to pull the pin so you can watch from a safe  
distance!

A better approach would have been to save the attachment to your own  
drive, scan it with ClamAV or any number of free (as in beer) virus  
scanners for Linux, then asking the group about macro safety in OO  
(without the attachment).  Of course if anyone REALLY wanted to see  
your spam, then they could ask you for the attachment off-list :)

Please DON'T post stuff you have no confidence in the safety of - like  
telling n00bs to run "sudo rm -rf /".....don't do it; it's a grenade.

Cheers,

James