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Article #6Re: Virus Warning
From: Rob Freeling
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 00:00
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 00:00
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In article <na.ec41d647c1.a70190glover@argonet.co.uk>, David Glover <URL:mailto:glover@argonet.co.uk> wrote: > You have to remember that unless you're using MS Word to read your e-mail - > it is *impossible* to catch a virus by opening and reading the text. The > only possible way to get a virus through e-mail, is either as an attached > program which you would have to be stupid enough to open, or as a "word > macro" - which only gets executed in MS Word. At last a sensible word. I might add that who ever is sending and resending this warning is actually the virus. It is YOU that is replicating the message and it is YOU that it spoilling bandwidth on the Internet and thus making it slower. Please, no more warnings, OK? Grtz, -- Rob Freeling <mailto:rfreelin@inter.nl.net> Consultant AS/400 <mailto:RFreelin@inetgate.capgemini.nl> Cap Gemini Information Systems Management ... Laddie, ya think ya might like ta ... rephrase that?
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 104d22,985fb36adfe6bfb8 X-Google-Attributes: gid104d22,public X-Google-Thread: 115f30,985fb36adfe6bfb8 X-Google-Attributes: gid115f30,public From: Rob Freeling <rfreelin@inter.nl.net> Subject: Re: Virus Warning Date: 1997/08/30 Message-ID: <ant30123406c33g*@rfreelin.inter.nl.net> X-Deja-AN: 269158741 References: <na.2ed96347c0.a701a0rayling@argonet.co.uk> <na.ec41d647c1.a70190glover@argonet.co.uk> Organization: Cap Gemini Information Systems Management, Utrecht, The Netherlands, +31 30 6004466 Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.extra-cpu,argonet.acorn.misc