padgett%tccslr.dnet@uvs1.orl.mmc.com (A. Padgett Peterson) (04/09/91)
>From: pcsbbs!fff@uunet.uu.net >If I connect to a site where I always initiate the call, only exchange >email and receive netnews, am I subject to receiving a virus. My >modem is never left on and the port is not enabled for a login. With a single restriction, you are not subject to a virus under these conditions. The sole caveat being that you are not connected to a system the performs on-line updates to the communications software in your PC. (the PC software would have to permit this, it cannot be done unilaterally) Since I know of several commercial packages that appear to have this capability and do not know which you are using, the restriction may or may not apply.