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Article #1382Re: Internet VIRUS (fwd)
From: Bob Morrell
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 00:00
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 00:00
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The "good times virus" was a hoax virus scare from several months back. There is no way that reading email can introduce a virus.... Like many things on the Internet, this issue seems to resurect itself periodically as people stumble across old email, or newbies on the net see references to a problem, without seeing references to its resolution. You can add the good times virus to the FCC idea of modem surcharges, the 200$ cookie recipe, and the boy who want=ed= get well cards. You should not, however, feel bad about falling for one of these. Everyone does (I have my letter from a very frustrated FCC bureacrat) and one of the hazards of the net is that it is very difficult to distinguish these things. My rule of thumb: read all of my mail before sending out anything. Usually in a package of 20 emails, the answer to number 2 will be found in number 15 or so. * Bob Morrell * * bmorrell@isnet.is.wfu.edu * * The operation was a success, as the autopsy will show *
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10eaff,30f443c6440806fc,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10eaff,public From: bmorrell@ISNET.IS.WFU.EDU (Bob Morrell) Subject: Re: Internet VIRUS (fwd) Date: 1995/04/24 Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950424115206.22074A-100000@isnet> X-Deja-AN: 101518588 distribution: world sender: daemon@net.bio.net organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology newsgroups: bionet.diagnostics