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Date:	Sat, 12 Jul 2003 17:46:14 PDT7
From:	"Dave Watson" <david.watson@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: [Fwd: Failure Notice]

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If you are responding to someone asking for help who
may not be a member of this list, be sure to use the
REPLY TO ALL feature of your email program.
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A safe way to test virus tools is to use the EICAR test string. Most
virus software includes this string in its search, but it isn't a real virus.
So your virus will trigger, but you won't get in trouble for sending it over
the intenet. Get it from http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm

Yes, sending real viruses is illegal. Your probability of getting jacked
up is probably proportional to the damage you do, of course. Sending
it to yourself is probably unlikely to be detected, but a mistake, a
complaint, a zealous prosecutor with time on his hands, and you'll be
asking Peter for a reference for a stinkin lawyer.

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