Re: (>H) META-ish: Virus warning

From: Sarah Marr (sarah.marr@dial.pipex.com)
Date: Fri Nov 01 1996 - 11:53:31 MST


At 14:27 31/10/96 +0000, James Rogers wrote:
>Looks like a recycle of the "Good Times" hoax. You can't get a virus
>by reading your mail, even if there is a virus attached. The
>technology doesn't work that way.

Mmmm. I suspected it might be and I, too, couldn't see a way in which a
self-executable file could be run simply by reading an email.

Still, better safe than sorry :-)

Sarah

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