There’s a nasty new little virus going around that attaches to an e-mail as a .zip file. The subjuct is usually “HI” (but not always) and the body of the message may includ something about ‘7-bit ASCII’ (but not always.) If you get one form me don’t open the attachment. If you’re not sure, ask me if I sent it to you before opening it. (I’m not actually sending these at all but I just got one from my work e-mail to my home e-mail and another earlier today going the other way. I’ve checked both systems and I’m clean.) Hopefully this’ll peter out in a day or two.
BTW: I just looked it up the English plural for virus is viruses. Viri is a neuter Latin plural for virus though, even for Latin, a very obsure plural.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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