[TML] [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: Searchable archives

[Andrew Long]

On 15 Dec 2007, at 21:44, shadow at shadowgard.com wrote:

> On 15 Dec 2007 at 9:02, Andrew Long wrote:
>
>> <Snip/>

>> Got em both, thanks. Norton says that there's a virus in CD-1, but
>> that it has cleaned it... any idea what it might have been and where?
>
> There are two messages (in different digests) infected with some
> ancient virus. This was in the days before the list automatically
> removed attachments.
>
> Since it would require several extraordinarily dumb actions by
> someone in possession of those files to actually infect their system,
> I kept them the way they were.
>
> You'd have to go in and *manually* extract the message and then
> either manually run a mime decoder and run the resulting executable
> or feed he message to a program that could spit out messages from
> digests and then view the message with a mail program that was 10
> years behind on safety patches...
>
About what I thought.

Thanks again for promoting the download. Perhaps over Christmas I'll  
finally get around to rationalising all my copies of the archives,  
and extracting the individual posts. Then again, I promise myself  
that I'll do that every time I have more than a day or so together  
with nothing else to do....

Regards, Andy
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Andrew Long
andrew dot long at yahoo dot com