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echo: virus_info
to: KRISTOPHER YOUNG
from: MIKE HUDSON
date: 1997-03-28 15:25:00
subject: VIRUS WARNING!!!!

-=> Quoting Kristopher Young to All <=-
 
 KY> This message appers to be a friendly lettter asking you if you are
 KY> interested in a penpal, but by the time you read this letter, it is too
 KY> late. 
 KY> The "Trojan horse" virus will have already infected the boot sector of
 KY> your hard drive, destroying all the data present.
 KY> It is a self-replicating virus, and once the message is read, it will
 KY> AUTOMATICALLY forward itslelf to anyone who's e-mail addres is present
 KY> in YOUR mailbox!
 KY> This virus will DESTROY your hard drive, and hold the potetial to
 KY> DESTROY the hard drive of anyone whose mail is in your mailbox, and
 KY> who's mail is in their mailbox and so on.
 
Naturally, this is just another "Good Times" scare...but even if it were
true...how can it e-mail it self to everyone in your e-mail list, if it's
already destroyed your hard drive?  That's irrational!
 
It would have to have a time delay built in, so it could e-mail out to those
other addresses before it destroyed your drive.
 
... Efficiency is a highly developed form of laziness.
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