Warren is correct in that regular email cannot give you a virus. However, if you download a *.com file or a *.exe file and execute it, there is a possibility that it may have a virus. Just unloading the file would not infect you, but using it could. This is why many Websites, when offering a download, give a warning that you should know from whom you are receiving an executable file. Jim Coleman, Sr. On Mon, 21 Apr 1997, Horace Greeley wrote: > Warren and list, > > Please see my other post on this. > > The CIAC folks seem to think that (at least) one version of the > "AOL4FREE.COM" is not a hoax. > > I am not sure I want to risk 8 gig of drive space to find out the hard way. > > "Blessed are the cynical, > for they hath made backups." > > - anon > > Horace > > p.s. > > This is a _great_ site for this kind of thing. > > Thanks, Warren! > > hg. > > >Check out the Computer Virus Myths home page at > >www.Kumite.com/myths/home.htm > > > >Good Luck, > > > >Warren > >-- > > > > Horace Greeley hgreeley@leland.stanford.edu > > "The defining statistic of death is that it has a one to one ratio." > > - George Bernard Shaw > > LiNCS voice: 415/725-4627 > Stanford University fax: 415/725-9942 > > >
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