Virus in this file?

[debiani386 at gmail.com]

On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 19:29 +1000, James Gray wrote:
> On 24/07/2008, at 6:48 PM, Herman wrote:
> 
> > I got this message. It reads:
> 
> ---8<--- snipped
> 
> > 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

well my question is..if you think its a virus....WHY NOT SCAN IT? its
not that hard to do!!?!?!? I dont think that people should rely on other
people to scan a particular file for them.

--cj
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