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Re: Virus Update

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric A. Hall)
Thu May 4 14:10:31 2000

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> I would assume that if you are not on a Windows platform that you
> are not affected.

You are safe from most of these as long as you don't use a mailer that
wantonly executes VB script. Outlook for Windows is the specific
culprit, not Windows.

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Eric A. Hall                                            ehall@ehsco.com
+1-650-685-0557                                    http://www.ehsco.com


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