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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