Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!widener!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!cert.sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: padgett%tccslr.dnet@uvs1.orl.mmc.com (A. Padgett Peterson) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Modems Message-ID: <0009.9104101503.AA06496@ubu.cert.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 9 Apr 91 15:31:57 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List Lines: 13 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu >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.