[20770] in APO-L
Re: virus warning
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laura A Costa)
Fri Aug 20 06:17:44 1999
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 06:09:28 -0700
Reply-To: costal2@JUNO.COM
From: Laura A Costa <costal2@JUNO.COM>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999 19:13:22 -0700 Derek Cashman <cashman@YAHOO.COM>
writes:
> folks, I'm afraid this one's for real. the following
> virus information and alert was posted on Network
> Associates' Web Site earlier this week.
>
List moderators: is he correct? Or is this yet *another* hoax?
> maybe i'm missing something...is this virus spread through email?
No virus is ever spread by a person just opening an email. Now, if
there's an attachment and you open the attachment, then that's where
viruses like to hide. But, as I said above, I'd like to see confirmation
from a list moderator before I believe this is a true virus, as opposed
to a hoax. I wish the rest of the list members would let the moderators
tell us about viruses. It would make me less skeptical.
Laura
