RE: URGENT WARNING

From: Stephen E. Michaels (smichaels@erols.com)
Date: Mon Jun 08 1998 - 21:29:10 EDT


Are we back to these messages in this forum? As I really little Greek, I'm content to lurk and try to glean what I can from these discussions.

In any event, e-mail messages are text only. Computer viruses are computer code. Because of this difference, it is impossible to send a virus through e-mail channels in the manner that George's post decribes.

The only way to send a virus through e-mail is to send an affected program file as an attachment. But merely opening the main body of any e-mail message will not cause any virus to do its dirty work.

-----Original Message-----
From: George Athas [SMTP:gathas@mail.usyd.edu.au]
Sent: Monday, June 08, 1998 7:28 PM
To: Biblical Greek
Subject: URGENT WARNING

>> > If you receive an email titled "WIN A HOLIDAY" DO NOT open it.
>> > It will erase everything on your hard drive. Forward this letter
>> > out to as many people as you can. This is a new, very malicious
>> > virus and not many people know about it. This information was
>> > announced yesterday morning from Microsoft; please share it with
>> > everyone that might access the internet.
>> > Once again, pass this along to everyone in your address book so
>> > that this may be stopped.
>> >
>> >
>> > ===========================================
>> > David B THOMPSON
>> > Customer Education Manager
>> > Professional Services Organisation
>> > HEWLETT-PACKARD (NZ) Ltd
>> > email david_thompson@aus.hp.com
>> > phone ++ 64 4 802 6832
>> > mobile ++ 64 25 995 345
>> > fax ++ 64 4 384 3380
>> > http://www.hpnz.co.nz/edu.html

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George Athas
 PhD (Cand.), University of Sydney
 Tutor of Hebrew, Moore Theological College
Phone: 0414 839 964 ICQ#: 5866591
Email: gathas@mail.usyd.edu.au
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