From: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject: Re: Hoax virus
11 Mar 1998 21:49:36 -0800
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To: marcus AT bighorn DOT dr DOT lucent DOT com
Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

Thank-you for the education, Marcus.  I should have known better.

Let be take this time to apologize to the list, as I will not personally 
answer each of you who decide to educate me.

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>From: marcus AT bighorn DOT dr DOT lucent DOT com
>Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 09:23:20 -0700
>To: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com
>Subject: Hoax virus
>Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
>
>Re: "WIN A HOLIDAY" Virus warning from ernie_boyd...
>
>>Subject: Fwd: Fw: Message re VIRUS received, quoted and forwarded as 
>>    directed
>
>Congratulations, you have just spread this "hoax virus".  This type of
>virus has been around for a couple of years, first known as "GOOD 
TIMES".
>It is spread by well meaning victims forwarding it to everybody that
>they know, who then forward it again, etc.   Fortunately, the only 
damage
>that it does is waste time to read and forward it, email bandwidth to
>mail it, and storage space to hold it in receiving inboxes.
>
>It should be pointed out that it is impossible to get a virus from 
reading
>a message as text.  You would have to execute an attached binary, or
>open a WORD document with automatic macro execution enabled.  Reading
>a text document, however, cannot possibly "erase everything on your 
hard
>drive."
>
>Education about what things can spread a virus and what cannot is the 
best
>defense against these hoax viruses.  Please do not forward this virus 
to
>your friends, but perhaps educate them instead.
>
>marcus hall
>



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