virus alert (fwd)

[Robert Scott]

At 12:11 AM 11/8/96 -0700, you wrote:
>>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 14:14:28 -1000
>>Subject: virus alert
>>
>> Subject: VIRUS
>>> Date: Tuesday, October 29, 1996 2:38PM
>>>
>>> Subject: [Fwd: Virus Alert] (fwd)
>>> From:    Jane_Seiden@mail.sel.sony.com at ORL-SMTP-G
>>> Date:    10/21/96  5:22 PM
>>>
>>> HI ALL - HERE'S MORE VIRUS INFO FROM SONY HQ, FORWARDED FROM LONDON,
>>> FYI.  TAKE CARE -- JS
>>>
>>> There is a computer virus that is being sent across the Internet.
>>> If you receive an e-mail message with the subject line "Irina", DONOT
>>> read the message. DELETE it immediately.
>>> Some miscreant is sending people files under the title "Irina". If
>>> you receive this mail or file, do not download it. It has a virus
>>> that rewrites your hard drive, obliterating anything on it. Please be
>>> careful and forward this mail to anyone you care about.
>>> ( Information received from the Professor Edward Prideaux, College of
>>> Slavonic Studies, London ).
>

   You cannot get a virus by reading an e-mail.  However if the e-mail
contains an attached file which is a program and if the miscreant can
somehow get you to run that program, then you are vulnerable.  But just
reading -- No.
   -Bob Scott