| To: | singleton@ccsu.edu, mgs@autox.team.net |
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| Subject: | Re: internet virus |
| From: | Paul Hunt <on76@dial.pipex.com> |
| Date: | Fri, 25 Oct 96 18:31:58 GMT |
>A computer virus is a program and, in order for it to be activated, >it must be executed on the host computer. Simply reading an email >message does not execute a program ... I have noticed occasionally when reading the mgs-digest and attachments that a DOS program *is* sometimes run, and purely coincidentally (I hope!) this very message was one of those times. And you realise you have now thrown down a challenge to the hacker community ... PaulH 73 Roadster (HD&H) 75 V8 (DD) |
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