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In article <N.120596.191608.20@ppp069e>, sjadams@citynet.net wrote:

> On 12/5/96 8:15AM, in message
<maxalex-0512962214570001@tokyo-04-155.gol.com>, 
> Cyber Max <maxalex@gol.com> wrote:
> 
> > I have received this message, therefore I post it. If someone knows if
> > it's a joke or a serious thing and wants to let me know, I'll appreciate.
> > Sorry for posting a message to so many groups.
> > Max
> > ------
> > 
> > >>>
> > >>>>>         **********VIRUS ALERT**********
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ!
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>There is a computer virus that is being sent across the Internet.  If
> > >>>>>you  receive an email message with the subject line "Deeyenda", DO NOT
> > >>>>>read the message, DELETE it immediately!
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>Some miscreant is sending email under the title "Deeyenda" nationwide,
> > >>>>>if you get anything like this DON'T  DOWNLOAD THE FILE!  It has a virus
> > >>>>>that rewrites your hard drive, obliterates anything on it.  Please be
> > >>>>>careful and forward this e-mail to anyone you care about.
> > >>
> 
> 
> 
>     You can't get a virus from a newsgroup message, except when it has an 
> attachment which is an executable.  Even then, just opening the message won't 
> release the virus--you have to open the attachment.
> 
>     If you open the attachment, and if you have your program set to
immediately 
> activate any executable, then a virus can be released.  The prevention is
simple
> --don't set your program to automatically activate any executable attachment.

The text of this warning sounds almost exactly like the verbiage of the
warning about the mythical "Good Times" virus that reappears about this
time every year, and I'll bet it's just as mythical and just as
unimportant.
-- 
Richard W. (Dick) Lander; sportsman,
Macintosh devotee, proponent of personal liberty.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
"People are afraid of what they don't understand." I don't know
who said that, but s/he must have been talking about guns.