NPR...Anybody actually opened the "Snow White" e-mail?

[John Musselwhite]

At 07:23 AM 5/1/01 -0400, Brian wrote:

>I thought, mistakenly I might add, that perhaps the list might be free 
>from that pesky "Snow White" e-mail that's been coming around.  I think 
>I've deleted that thing at least a dozen times and have never opened 
>it.  But, this morning, when I opened my e-mail, shazzam!! there it was!

Install Norton Anti-Virus and you'll never see them. Apparently with this 
last one I told it to delete the message that it was attached to as well. 
Hope it wasn't anything important.

>I am curious, has anyone actually opened this thing to see what it is or 
>what it does?

Go to any of the virus-type  pages and read about it. Try 
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w95.hybris.gen.html


>I guess the reason I'm so curious is because of the apparent longevity of 
>this thing.  It' just keeps coming, and coming, and coming, and coming...

Unfortunately it will be around forever. That's the way it goes. Protect 
yourself with a good virus checker. Norton was included free with my CD 
burner and I've been very happy with it.

                 John

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