Virus Alert!!

[Jim]

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
>
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>
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