Virus

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Dec 22 09:30:20 EST 1998


At 2:37 AM -0600 12/22/98, Terence Miller wrote:
>"He wakes us morning by morning to hear as the learned."
>A reliable source tells us that IBM has issued a virus alert this morning.
>If you receive an e mail entitled JOIN THE CREW....for PENPALS...........DO
>NOT OPEN IT. It will erase everything on your hard drive without remedy and
>will automatically forward itself to all addresses in your book.

This looks to me like another form of the so-called "Good Times" virus
hoax. I don't believe that e-mail (that is, unformatted ASCII text) itself
can be the carrier of a virus, although an attached program certainly can
be.

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics/Washington University
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