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to: RICK COLLINS
from: STEVE BENNETT
date: 1997-04-25 00:10:00
subject: Re: Hoax virus warnings,

>- Speaking of Hoax virus warnings,, Rick Collins said this to Steve Bennett 
on 20 Apr 97  08:23 -<
 RC> Meanwhile, this is a virus echo, not the "what if" echo.
 RC> "What if" every version of DOS and every version of Windows contained
 RC> a bomb which would activate on 1 Jan 1998, erasing everything from
 RC> the hard drive?  "What if" Bill Gates was an evil genius from planet
 RC> Goofball?  "What if" reality was a myth, you're dead, and just
 RC> imagining these conversations are taking place?
Very true...we can't leave ourselves in the future, or the hypothetical,
but these "what if's" I personally don't think are that unlikely.  There
are almost certainly email programs out there that contain security holes
that make them read messages and do things with them (ie: macros)...
Don't we all wish these  hypotheticals would stay "what-if", but it doesn't
always work out like that.
Steve
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