Please. EVERYONE. There can be no such thing as an Email
Virus. It simply can't happen with email. Attachments are the only
thing that can be infected, just as any other document (Embedded macro),
or application can be. EMAIL can not. Only open attachments that you
are sure of or save them and scan them first.
Please let this thread, AND any other email virus warning DIE.
they are not real..
Rich
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> From: Steve Laifman[SMTP:laifman@flash.net]
> Reply To: Steve Laifman
> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 1997 2:30 AM
> To: Schonberger, Barry
> Cc: tigers@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Fwd: New E-mail Virus
>
> Barry,
>
> From time-to-time we have heard warnings about virus-bearing e-mails.
> Our Corporate Computer Resources Division has repeatedly said that an
> e-mail can NOT transmit a virus. HOWEVER, an enclosure to the e-mail
> may. There are some particularly nasty ones that come as a Microsoft
> Word document attachment. "Happy Days" comes to mind. The viruses are
> inserted into the Word document thru Macros. Macros are "features" of
> Microsoft, and other programs, that allow computer commands to be
> inserted into documents for many good and valid reasons. It is these
> "altered Macros" that could contain the virus. It is good to know
> which
> e-mails may contain enclosures that may contain viruses. The major
> virus
> scanning programs have detectors of the recent ones, and provide
> warning. I strongly recommend your current virus scanners be updated
> frequently. They are usually free on the manufacturer's web site.
>
> Bottom line. Opening an e-mail will not infect your machine. If the
> e-mail has an enclosure, use your scanner before opening it.
>
> Steve
> --
> Steve Laifman < One first kiss, >
> B9472289 < one first love, and >
> < one first win, is all >
> < you get in this life. >
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