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e-mail virus



Please forward this message to anyone who spreads rumors about
e-mail viruses. Maybe this silliness will stop sometime.


>Thank you for your recent letter concerning e-mail-borne viruses.
>     Unfortunately, most of the virus warnings floating around the Net
>     right now are hoaxes.  There are, however, two rules that you
>     need to remember to be able to sort out the true virus warnings
>     from the hoaxes, and to protect yourself from becoming infected
>     with a virus or a Trojan horse:
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>          1. Regular, plain-text e-mail letters -- the plain old
>             vanilla e-mail letters (like this one) that you receive
>             every day -- can *NOT* contain viruses or Trojan horses.
>             Period.  It does not matter what you may have heard from
>             your friends, co-workers, newspaper, government, or
>             religious leaders.  Plain e-mail letters can not contain
>             viruses or Trojan horses.  It does not matter WHAT the
>             subject line of the letter is -- "Good Times," "PenPal
>             Greetings," "Deeyenda," "Irina," "AOL4FREE," "I AM A
>             REALLY MEAN VIRUS AND I AM GOING TO EAT YOUR HARD DRIVE"
>             -- plain text e-mail letters simply can not contain
>             viruses or Trojan horses.  If anyone tells you otherwise,
>             they are either lying or are badly misinformed.
>
>          2. Files that are attached to e-mail letters -- like Lotus
>             or Excel spreadsheet files and *especially* Microsoft
>             Word files -- can, and probably do, contain viruses and
>             Trojan horses.  How can you protect yourself?  VIRUS
>             CHECK EVERY SINGLE ATTACHMENT THAT YOU RECEIVE THROUGH E-
>             MAIL (AND EVERY SINGLE FILE THAT YOU DOWNLOAD FROM THE
>             INTERNET).  If your boss, best friend, worst enemy,
>             family pet, significant other, insignificant other,
>             teacher, tribal member, or political leader sends you a
>             file attached to an e-mail document, VIRUS CHECK THAT
>             FILE.  It does not matter what the subject line of the e-
>             mail letter to which that file is attached is called.
>             VIRUS CHECK THAT FILE!
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