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From: "Jim Williamson" <>
Subject: RE: [PACE-L] My Message
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 21:30:22 -0400
In-Reply-To: <p04320400b9abad62e6cf@[192.168.1.100]>


You guys handled all of that correctly, at least for a Tech Support
person's point of view :) I wish all of my users at the office had as
much sense.

Mime is a type of email transmission, rather than a type of file,
however some mail programs handle it as a file when a message is
forwarded.

Mime stands for multi-purpose internet mail extensions because it
handles several formats at a time: text, audio, video, ascii, etc... and
makes them all manageable in one package.

Seeing that as a file extension, and not knowing what it was, the
right choice was made, many times whole networks have been brought down
and caused nightmares for support personnel by the simple opening of one
innocent seeming email.

Jim Williamson
Williamson, Kinsella, Pace, Marth
www.williamson-clan.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Pace [mailto:]
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 12:18 PM
To:
Subject: [PACE-L] My Message

Gordon,
I did send you a message on Sunday, 9/15. I forwarded of a message I
received from , the subject was "Background".
The next line was "X-Apparently-From: ". It had an
attachment " border.bat."
I do not open attachments unless I know the sender and the content.
Since it was not clear the message and attachment were from you I
forwarded the message and attachment to you with the following note:
"Gordon,
Did you try to send this to me?
I am a little leery of attachments from strange sources, and I don't
normally communicate with ameritrade.
If you did I will open it.
Thanks.
Bob"
I thought that was a safe way to confirm whether the message was from
you before I opened the attachment. If it was not from you I was
sure my message would alert you not to open the attachment.
The attachment apparently changed when I forwarded it to you from
"border.bat" to "backgroun.mime." With the benefit of hind-sight I
should have just sent a clean message asking about the message,
instead of forwarding it.

Gordon, I am so sorry that you lost so many files because of this.
You said in your message to PACE-L that you simply downloaded the
message and did not open the attachment, and that resulted in your
loss. That appears to be a new virus procedure. I thought one had
to open the attachment to get exposed.

I use a Mac and have discovered that many viruses are set up for PC's
with windows and do not affect the Mac.

Again, I am so sorry about your loss. Hopefully all of us on the
PACE-L will learn from this. Your rule of no attachments to PACE-L
messages is a good one.

Bob
--
Pace e Bene


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