From:	"Samuel Murray" <smurray AT yebo DOT co DOT zaREMOVE>
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Subject:	Re: 4 VIRUS ALERTS!
Date:	Fri, 12 Nov 1999 19:14:52 +0200
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true... you cannot get a virus by simply reading an email msg... however
some of the more modern (especially Windows based) mail programs are set to
"idiot mode" and automatically opens any attachments of certain kinds.  the
trick therefore is to use telnet only :))

seriously, i recently got home and found to my dismay and utter disbelief
that i sat with a 3 gig non-dos partition on my w95 machine... i figured it
must have been some kind of fdisk virus... beats me how it happened.

btw, i'd like some comments on my website... especially the esthetics... i
know the darn thing is very much topdown... but what do you ouks think?

http://www.geocities.com/lacialacia/

Samuel Murray

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... or try my personal page http://ey.to.hey.to/

Stella Ronnert <dragonett AT geocities DOT com> wrote in message
news:382BC4F4 DOT ED174896 AT geocities DOT com...

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> > You can't catch a virus by reading mail, only by opening an
> > attachment.

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