https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=811&p=9936#p9936
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Landman
Monday, 17 May 2004, 06:51 PM


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No it isn't. In order to infect your computer with a virus from e-mail, you HAVE to execute an attachment. You won't get infected for just viewing the text of the E-mail. The virus itself needs to be executed. As a rule, never execute any unknown attachments. Even some known ones for that matter. Another course of action for anyone using an NT based O/S. eg win XP, 2000, NT workstation, server etc. is to manually disable your tftp port. port 69. As many viruses eg. nimda, used this port to replicate itself over a network. Port 69 is used for tftp traffic, which is basically trafic to flash software images to e-proms on routers and other peripheral equipment. if you aren't doing anything like that, then there is no need for it to be open.

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