-=> Quoting Gordon Frey to Kenneth J. Renaud <=-
 GF> On (14 Aug 97) Kenneth J. Renaud wrote to All...
 
 KJ> I recently recieved Email from someone warning me that there is a
 KJ> Email going around with Join the Crew as a Header & when opened it
 KJ> trashes the System. Since I regularly read this conference I shrugged
 KJ> it off. Now a close friend called & said someone in his Office
 KJ> received it & it did
 KJ> trash his system. I hope his system being trashed was a coincidence?
 KJ> Anybody know any more about this alledged virus?
 GF> That totally depends on how he had the system configured.  If he 
 GF> was using word as email reader, then a macro virus can due it's 
 GF> drity deed or any program that has a macro capability were the 
 GF> macros are inbeded in the document.  There are no virus for Word 
 GF> Perfect as the macro's are not stored with the document and are 
 GF> not part of the document.
 GF> ... Teenagers are God's punishment for enjoying sex!
  Thanks, I suspect that was the case or it was just a coincedence!
... Security, confine Ensign Frey to the brig.
--- GEcho 1.20/Pro
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