> rf> Do NOT post hoax "email virus" (Good Times/Deeyenda/etc) warnings
 > rf> in this conference!
 > Eh... have you heard about the new word macro virus which uses MS Mail
 > to spread infected files?
I presume you're referring to ShareTheFun ?
It's not an EMAIL virus.  It's a MACRO virus which creates c:\doc1.doc,
uses the WordBasic instruction "AppActivate" to fire up MSMail, then
sends c:\doc1.doc as email with the subject line "You have GOT to read
this!" to three randomly-selected addresses from your addressbook.
Reading this infected email in MSWord on a target computer starts the
infection/email cycle again.
Nothing at all happens if you read it with an aftermarket MSWord reader
... the infected macro MUST be EXECUTED under MSWord to have any effect.
ShareTheFun has an operational bug ... it shuts down Windows if MSMail
isn't up and running when the infected .doc is read in MSWord.
 > I think, not all such warnings all hoaxes... ok, goodtimes ("destroy
 > the cpu" :-) is nonsens,
Good Times/PenPal/etc were easily identified as hoaxes right from the
start by their own message content ... and anyone who fell for Deeyenda
Maddick (which is obviously "The end of my dick") is in serious need of
a brainscan!
 > but other things like that _are_ possible and _have been_ done!
It's possible to write a macrovirus which will trash your FATs, format
your HD, and do all kinds of other malicious damage ... but that won't
make it an EMAIL virus.  (If I sent you Junkie as an email attachment
with the filename README.COM and you ran it and infected command.com
would this mean I'd sent you an EMAIL virus ... or just that I'd sent
you a virus VIA email ?)
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