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echo: virus_info
to: STEVE BENNETT
from: GORDON FREY
date: 1997-04-20 10:26:00
subject: Hoax virus warnings,

On (15 Apr 97) Steve Bennett wrote to Gordon Frey...
 SB> Hi Gordon,
SF> Just to muddy up the water, users of MS-Mail have that problem...
SF> MS Mail uses a version of Word WITH a macro language as the
SF> reader..... HOW NICE!  So those unluckily uses can become infected
SF> just by reading there E-Mails.
 SB> So...do you have any specifc info on this?  Is there anyway for these
 SB> poor hapless souls to prevent catastrophe or does Microsoft prevail
 SB> again?
It's more of a mac problem than a PC problem, as PC users do not 
use Word or the supplied reader to read thier mail....
Gordon
... If guns cause crime, do matches cause arson?
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