On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 08:46:22 -0800, Rivergoat <goat@goathead.com>
wrote:
>But do you feel safe with the binary groups? Quite some time back it
>seemed that proliferation of viruses was rampant there; I stopped
>going to any binary groups....
Never had a virus from a newsgroup post.
If you're the first one to download in a given day, there might be a
small risk - but it's minimal given the number of posts that are made.
And as soon as someone with an AV program downloads a pic with a
virus, they see it and post a warning, so nobody else gets it.
--
Richard Steven Hack
"Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger" -
and YOU have not killed me!
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