Hello Henri,

 LL>>>> This email has been checked for viruses by AVG.

 WD>>> I'm wondering ... how many virusses can there be in a Fidonet message
 WD>>> except for the message itself ... of course....

 LL>> I had two messages detected as infected in a download a few hours ago.

 HD> Very strange, because FidoNet EchoMail is for 99 %  text only
 HD> There is very seldom machine code in it, so not infected at all.

I was downloading messages, and antivirus program caught
two viruses, quaranteeing them.  Not blaming any sysop or
system.  Just saying what happened.

 LL>> Both messages quarantined, safely tucked away causing no harm.
 LL>> One message was in netmail, the other in fidonews.

 HD> The only thing I can think of is a weblink in the message where you
 HD> double clicked on. The virus comes from that website,
 HD> not from that FidoNet text message.

Could be.  I wouldn't know.  Since my system remains good to go,
it is not something I am overly concerned about.

 LL>> Both downloaded from Bj”rn's system.

 HD> Let's see what Bjorn can tell us about his system?

It likely could have happened on another system, had I chosen
to download messages there.  Just because I downloaded messages
from Bj”rn's sytem does not mean his system was infected.

 LL>> How to eliminate the avg message from my reader software
 LL>> is a problem I have yet to solve.  Perhaps that is a virus
 LL>> in and of itself ...

 HD> It seems too ;-).

I guess AVG figures that most folks will not bother unclicking
that little box to make their ad go away ...

--Lee

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