Subject:  Re (emf) impt (fwd)
Date:     Tue, 2 Jun 1998 204656 -0500 (CDT)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru@hotmail.com
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 20:14:49 -0400
From: jeff.gordon@wellnow.com
To: "Roy L. Beavers" 
Subject: Re: (emf) impt (fwd)

Hi, Roy --

WIN A HOLIDAY is the current hoax.   No email virus exists, except in
this sense:

 -- If you receive a -program- via email, and then run it, it will do
whatever it was designed to do -- but you'd have to run it first.

 -- If you receive an MS Works or Excel file via email, and it contains a
"macro virus" (of which there are thousands now), that macro will do
whatever it was designed to do -if/when- you load the thing into either
Works or Excel.  These generally are -not- able to "erase your entire hard
drive", but they have a certain nuisance capability, at least.

In general: nothing arriving by email will hurt you unless you blithely
and naively invoke it into operability and turn the sucker loose.  
Rule of thumb:  if you don't know, or aren't sure of, the person who sent
it to you, treat it like you would a physical package arriving at your
front door unannounced.

Updated virus and virus hoax news always available at:

  http://www.datafellows.com (makers of the F-PROT antivirus program)

 -- Jeff --   

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