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echo: virus_info
to: GORDON FREY
from: STEVE BENNETT
date: 1997-04-15 00:08:00
subject: Re: E-Mail Virus

>- Speaking of E-Mail Virus, Gordon Frey said this to All on 09 Apr 97  10:32 
-<
 GF> There is a active E-Mail virus.  The Marco Virus takes advantage of 
 GF> the fact that MS Mail uses a version of Word, and the virus will 
 GF> Mail copies of it self to users listed in you E-Mail address book 
 GF> with out user intervention.
Well if this is true....
Just goes to show you shouldn't use MS, and that all this interconnected
stuff isn't all it's cracked up to be.
This sort of thing just can't happen if you use CCMail for mail and Word
Perfect for docs and Borland Quattro for spreadsheets and MYOB for
accounting.  Programs that can't talk to each other can't give viruses to
each otehr easily can they?

Steve
... A child's ability to endure stems from his ignorance of alternatives.
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