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echo: virus_info
to: EVERT CLONEN
from: DENNIS PADILLA
date: 1998-03-17 13:59:00
subject: new hoax ?

This message was written at 1:58p on 03-17-1998.
 EC>  JC> I recieve an e-mail warning me for the "win a holliday" virus.
 EC>  JC> Anybody heard from it yet ?
 EC> Yep, don't know what it does, but the guys and girls at M$ found it
 EC> neccessary to tell all their customers there was a virus you could get 
y
 EC> recieving E-mail.  I don't think so, you can only get a virus by 
exicuting
 EC> a program, not by reading a txt-file.  (OK, you can get a cap-virus,  
ou
 EC> know that word  virus, but only if you use word as a E-mail reader.)
It's true you can get a virus from a Word File. That's just a disguise, so 
when you download or get any mail, check if it's a virus. 
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