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To: triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Virus Warnings
From: Gerhard.Wiederholl@t-online.de (Gerhard Wiederholl)
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 21:05:49 +0100
References: <dc3a4a03.34bf5489@aol.com>
What a nonsense. A virus can never be in a pure eMail because a virus is a 
computerprogram and a eMail is just words (types and figures). The only way to 
send a virus by eMail is to put it in an enclosure as a part of a program file.

Gerhard

1969 TR 6


> >There is a virus out now being sent to people via email...it is called the
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> >A.I.D.S. VIRUS. It will destroy your memory, sound card and speakers, hard
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> >drive and it will infect your mouse or pointing device, as well as your
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> >keyboards making what you type not able to register on the screen. It self
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> >terminates only after it eats 5MB of hard drive space & will delete all
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> >programs.
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> >
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> >   It will come via E-mail called "OPEN: VERY COOL! :)". Delete it
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> >immediately!! It will basically render your computer useless.   PASS IT ON
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> >QUICKLY & TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE!! THANKS!! :-)
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> >
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