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Re: Fwd: INTERNET VIRUS ALERT

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hemang Patel)
Fri Mar 31 14:26:23 1995

Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 13:51:51 +0500
Errors-To: procmaster@www19.w3.org
Reply-To: hemang@bcpsparc.ucdavis.edu
From: Hemang Patel <hemang@bcpsparc.ucdavis.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www10.w3.org>

On Fri, 31 Mar 1995 Fell_Travis/dal11_tjfell@dal.mobil.com wrote:

> Item Subject: Message text
> ---- Begin Forwarded Message
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> Today (3/30/95) I received a copy of an e-mail from Hughes Aircraft
> Company via Moorpark College and the City of Ventura regarding a new 
> virus
> called GOOD TIMES that originated from someone on AOL.

Let's stop this right NOW! You cannot get a virus from an e-mail message, 
only from executables (eg, programs and applications). GOOD TIMES has 
already been dismissed as a hoazx months ago.

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