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echo: virus_info
to: RAYMOND
from: PAUL WALKER
date: 1997-05-04 13:36:00
subject: Is this a virus?

Hi Raymond,
Raymond to Paul Walker, 01 May 97 15:55.
 PW>> AKA "bioware" viruses. 
 R> Sorry if I had got into your privacy, but some how I saw your
 R> mail...
It's called echomail, and it's what we've been trying to explain to you for a
while now... ;) All mail in here goes to everyone connected, and they can 
ead
whatever they want, whoever it's addressed to.
 R> and I'm confuse..is there really a Virus call AKA"bioware" and it can
 R> attack through text based system?
No. Possibly I didn't make myself clear, actually.
I called it a `bioware' virus because, although it has no effect on computers
whatsoever, the *hoax* does indeed spread through people, ie biological 
systems.
At the moment, there is no way to become infected from just reading a mail,
with the possible exception that if you use MS-Mail, and *if* you've got it 
set
to use Word, you *may* get a macro virus. I'm not sure, I don't know how 
MS-Mail
works, so don't take that as proven fact.
--- FMail 1.22
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* Origin: Your god is worm food. - R Munns (2:440/410.6)

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