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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I only took down the folder because I got an email from google saying some files I uploaded had viruses but it did not give me any details and it said if I continued to share bad files I may lose access to the service and I can’t lose access because my son uses it for school. </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:Text_to_Speech@GMX.com">Don</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, November 10, 2021 20:20<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:dectalk@bluegrasspals.com">dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [DECtalk] the grossgang folder on google drive</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Aksel,</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On 11/10/2021 5:11 PM, Aksel Leo Christoffersen wrote:</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Thank you for the information. My point about the files being on the site</p><p class=MsoNormal>> for a long time was, that there's then a good chance that they've been</p><p class=MsoNormal>> tested before hand, or by other people, who has downloaded the files. If</p><p class=MsoNormal>> they discovered a virus or malware, they would have plenty of time to report</p><p class=MsoNormal>> back, so the file could be removed.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I think folks are "less confident" making A V claims as there is so much</p><p class=MsoNormal>variation in what A V products *claim* about a particular file. If</p><p class=MsoNormal>the A V product that you use says a file is infected, how sure of that</p><p class=MsoNormal>are you? And, if other folks apply their A V tools to the file and</p><p class=MsoNormal>see a negative result, will they assume their A V product is faulty?</p><p class=MsoNormal>Or, yours?</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In either case, what will their attitude towards the file in question be?</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So, imagine I tell you that my A V product flags one of the files that</p><p class=MsoNormal>you are hosting as "infected". You'll likely test it with your A V product.</p><p class=MsoNormal>But, presumably, you'd already done that before posting it! Will you</p><p class=MsoNormal>now take down the file based on my report? Or, will you leave it up</p><p class=MsoNormal>on the assumption that my report may have been a false positive?</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The best way to deal with "foreign" files is to assume they can</p><p class=MsoNormal>contain malware and treat them accordingly. I don't run any A V products</p><p class=MsoNormal>on any of my machines because they all come with associated costs/overhead.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>But, only this machine is "exposed" so any malware that infects it would</p><p class=MsoNormal>be able to benefit from its internet connection (e.g., to "report home").</p><p class=MsoNormal>The rest of my machines are isolated from the Internet so any malware is</p><p class=MsoNormal>effectively "jailed", once on those.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If I suspect something of containing malware, I access it in a "sandbox" and</p><p class=MsoNormal>observe its actions, there. If I see it trying to "drop turds" in places</p><p class=MsoNormal>that it shouldn't, I use that as a positive confirmation of "unexpected</p><p class=MsoNormal>behavior" -- even if an A V product claims it is "clean".</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Note that a truly stealthy virus could evade initial detection and</p><p class=MsoNormal>still screw me over "down the road".</p><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>Dectalk mailing list</p><p class=MsoNormal>Dectalk@bluegrasspals.com</p><p class=MsoNormal>https://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/dectalk</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>